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on 6/13/05 12:29 PM, Peggy Murdock at [log in to unmask] wrote:

A fair amount has been said about retooling the environmental message to
appeal to voters with traditional moral standards with the idea that liberal
candidates would sway voters over into their camps.  I have gone into the
voting booth more than once determined to vote for environmentally friendly
candidates and been unable to because of their "pro-choice (and by
extension, infanticidal)" stances.

Think what the choice would be for you, if the only pro-environmental
candidate would save forests and owls, but exterminate blacks and
homosexuals.  That is the nature of the choice facing pro-lifers, which
include Catholics.  A recent statement made on the Vatican email publication
listed the environment right along with stem cell issues as an extension of
the Catholic pro-life stance.

As long as candidates are committed to abortion on demand, a large
contingent of the pro-environmental vote will be lost and it seems to me
that Democrats are inextricably committed to the pro-choice stance right up
to and including infanticide, and it is hopeless for liberals to think of
tapping the true strength of the pro-environment vote.

Could it be possible to re-frame these issues in terms of self interest,
profit and patriotism as someone recently suggested?  Moral conservatives
are not going to flock to the environmental cause unless the other issues
are taken out of the equation.

Peggy Murdock

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