Obama speak of equality and human rights but supports the murdering of innocent children through abortion and embryonic stem cell research as if such people were a sub-class of human beings . This is not consistent with the U.S. Declaration of Independence which clearly states "... all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This refers to the human fetus as does the similar decree by the United Nations.

Without the right to life no other human right makes sense. Hence, contrary to A.H. Jaffor Ullah, it is not only acceptable but imperative that one judge Obama according to his position on abortion. which is so extreme so as to include infanticide. Also contrary to A.H. Jaffor Ullah the majority of Americans oppose abortion. America was founded on Christian principles and no one has a right to exclude morality from the law as A.H. Jaffor Ullah thinks. When morality disappears you get anarchy.

Human life begins at conception. This was established 120 years ago by Wilhelm His, the father of human embryology. Major theologians also agree that it is at the instant of conception that a person acquires his or her soul. Procured abortion, therefore, is the deliberate killing of a human being in the initial phase of his or her existence, extending from conception to birth. While the slogan that abortion is a woman's right to control her own body may sound reasonable to many, it is a medical fact that the human fetus is not a part of the mother’s body. It is a separate, distinct and unique human person with its own heart beat, brain waves and DNA.

When pro-abortionists today speak of "unwanted pregnancies" it immediately calls to mind the horrible references to Adolph Hitler and his "unwanted Jews". The only difference being that the law today makes little racial, gender or religious distinction between who, among the weak and innocent, it allows to be systematically exterminated.

It is estimated, for example, that 1.3 million people are murdered each year in the U.S. through abortion. This is much more than those who die in war. If it is unfair to compare pro-abortion lawmakers and politicians like Obama to people like Hitler it is only because Hitler was responsible for the death of less people.

People may deceive themselves that legalized abortion across the world has not changed much in our private lives and in our society. But there are no "small murders". When man loses respect for life, he inevitably ends by losing his own identity. We all must welcome every new life into the world, regardless of the circumstances, as if it were our own. Our lives and the lives of our unborn children are inseparable.

Obama is now promoting himself as an advocate of "family values" yet he also claims to fully support homosexuality which thwarts the natural generation of life and which is the anti-thesis of the family. According to an open letter on his campaign website Obama said: "As your President, I will use the bully pulpit to urge states to treat same-sex couples with full equality in their family and adoption laws." This will inevitably marginalize organized religion and those with religious beliefs. We already see this happening in Britain where new government laws on homosexual rights are forcing Catholics to sever their ties with adoption agencies. In Canada it is increasingly becoming impossible to oppose homosexuality in any form without being branded a purveyor of hate.

The family is not a client of the State. Rather, the State and society depend upon the family (which precedes the State) and its work to bring up morally sound citizens. Nor is the family an aggregation of individual preferences but an organic unity whereby mother and father are not replaceable or interchangeable but complimentary.

Philosopher Jacques Maritain wrote that democracy - what many consider the best form of government - emerged in human history as a temporal expression of evangelical inspiration and as such - in a historical rather than a dogmatic sense - is closely linked to Christianity.

Today, however, democracy is incorrectly perceived by many like Obama as an ethically neutral political regime that is able to embrace values that are not only different but actually in opposition. Of course, this "democratic relativism" is rightly aberrant to Christians because it is blind to the objective dimension of goodness and value.

Every political regime - and democracy is no exception - needs to be motivated by absolute values. As a proof - a democracy which formally aims to neutralize the conflictual values present in the social fabric in the conviction that it can give them the only possible legitimate foundation, cannot refer in its turn, on pain of contradiction, to prior founding values.

Ultimately American must ask themselves this November whether they want a moral nation or an Obama-nation.

Paul Kokoski
Hamilton, Ontario. Canada
E Mail : pkokoski@mountaincable.net