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p> SHEEP FROM GOATS br> Re: Lisa Fabrizio's Selectively Faithful : /p>

Bravo for Lisa Fabrizio's "Selectively Faithful." Before she entered Congress, Rep. Rosa DeLauro was the executive director of EMILY's List, the PAC whose raison d'etre is to see to the election of pro-abortion women. That, despite her sham document's claim to "...agree with the Catholic Church about the value of human life and the undesirability of abortion..."

p>The term "lying, treacherous *****" comes inexorably to mind. br> -- Francis M. Hannon, Jr. br> Melrose, Massachusetts /p>

Thanks to Lisa Fabrizio for a great column. This delusional press release would be more aptly named, "Historic Moral Relativism of Catholic Apostates." It is chilling that 33 of these signatories voted for partial-birth abortions in 2003. What Clintonesque chutzpah! Their twisted view of Roman Catholicism is identical to their opinion of the U.S. Constitution -- screw you, we'll interpret it any damn way we please.

Someone please tell battle-axe Rosa DeLauro that Thomas Jefferson used the phrase "wall of separation of church and state" to clarify that the state will not make demands of any church (hint: it concerned the taxing of minority Baptist congregations from her home state). But it certainly looks like these 55 Congressional Democrats are making demands of the Roman Catholic Church through veiled threats (if you want continued tax breaks for hospitals, you'd better allow abortion on-demand) and trampling the Constitution by grossly misinterpreting Thomas Jefferson. These 55 Democrats should read the 1st Amendment. Their special definition of "separation of church and state" does not exist and is only a euphemism for imposing their secular beliefs on Americans. Why should taxpayers fund the secularists' belief in abortion simply because the secularists are a majority today? What about Jefferson's defense of minority religions (which would be today's conservative Jews and Catholics) in his Danbury letter?

p>I'm still laughing over the Clintonian quote, "We believe the separation of church and state allows for our faith to inform our public duties." Oh really? Using their same "logic," the imposition of Sharia Law on Americans by a few Islamofascists elected to Congress would be legal. Don't forget Democrats in the judiciary like Stephen Breyer loudly applaud the trendy, intellectual laziness of citing international law (by the way, Sharia law is international law) and belittle original intent of the Constitution.

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