I saw recently that Ireland, a staunch Catholic country, overwhelmingly overturned there anti-abortion laws. The final numbers were around 66% in favor of overturning.
This is a country made up of people who have fought and died to cling to their right to practice the Catholic faith, a faith that strongly eschews abortion. That is why Ireland had such strong anti-abortion laws in place in the first place. Yet the people overturned those laws.
Some would say that it is an example of the people moving away from their faith. Perhaps, but not in the numbers seen by this vote. There were other practical reasons behind the vote. Things that superseded the deep seated religious belief of so many people.
In America, the claim that the majority of people in support of legalized abortion is because of our lack of religion but that same claim does not to Ireland. In fact, their support is a higher percentages than would be expected in America.
It just means that to me that abortion is not the cut-and-dry issue for religious people that the anti-abortion advocates want you to believe it is. Once more making reasonable dialog impossible.
But I wonder: truly, have your stand on abortion and homosexuality become the litmus test by which God judges your faith? I think not!
