A bit of courage can go a long way:
Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, (R-New Orleans), the first Vietnamese-American congressman and a Catholic, announced this past weekend that, because of the “stealth mandate” for abortion still present in the Health Care bill, he prefers to “save his soul” rather than vote in favor of it.
Cao, the only member of the Louisiana House delegation who had not weighed in on where he stands on the health reform bill, told the Times-Picayune on Saturday that he cannot support any bill that permits public money to be spent on abortion.
“At the end of the day if the health care reform bill does not have strong language prohibiting the use of federal funding for abortion, then the bill is really a no-go for me,” said Cao, who spent time in formation to be a Jesuit priest.
“Being a Jesuit, I very much adhere to the notion of social justice,” Cao said. “I do fully understand the need of providing everyone with access to health care, but to me personally, I cannot be privy to a law that will allow the potential of destroying thousands of innocent lives,” he explained to the Louisiana newspaper.
Naturally, the Democrats are planning on demonizing Rep. Cao – hitting him on radio stations with large African-American audiences for opposing Obamacare. I doubt those ads will mention that a far higher proportion of black children are aborted than white children – the killing of black people, an inherent Planned Parenthood project, probably would be hard to sell to a black audience, ya know? But, if your plan is to simply hide and/or lie about what you’re doing, then this might make good politics. Just call Cao a racist – you know, for not supporting Obama – and hope that enough anger and hatred is generated to cause Cao trouble at the polls. For goodness sake, stay away from the issues at hand or the truth about the Democrat coalition – nothing but trouble for the left in that!
As for Rep. Cao – he’s showing his courage and God will ensure that it all comes out for the best. Win or lose for him in 2010 is immaterial – Democrats think that winning elections is the most important thing, we don’t. Honor and courage count for far more, and eventually earn their just reward.
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