But, proclaims Gore, his views have evolved and he, like Bradley, now fully favors taxing devout Roman Catholics and other abortion opponents so that the fruits of their labor can bankroll abortions for welfare recipients. We fully support them, boast Gore and Bradley. Parents, in Singer's view, should be allowed to put to death their newly born infants. Dr. Singer defines one end of the abortion spectrum. All the rest of us fit somewhere in between.
Politicians seem oily because that is their job.
Democracy asks us all to get dirty with that oil. Just as politicians compromise away their moral purity, we by voting for such people are self-anointed with their impurity. We vote for a lesser of evils and try to forget that it, too, is evil. As a result, many on the Religious Right, as columnist and author of Blinded by the Might Cal Thomas recently noted, have become ungodly in their embrace of Caesar and their willingness to lie and cheat and slander to get their preferred candidate elected. A religious political party loses both its integrity as religion and its virtue as politics.