A recent column from Kansas City, Kansas Archbishop Naumann answers longstanding questions about his leadership in a failed abortion vote.
Our blog has long argued that the election blowout was the result of hubris, a failure to connect with voters at the grassroots level, a fundamental lack of coalition building between conservative factions and maybe even misunderstanding wishful thinking regarding the results of early polling numbers.
However, in a written statement that's far more important . . . The Archbishop offers his perspective which lays responsibility at the hands of the NextGen . . . Or, more accurately, at evil forces influencing their voting decisions.
Apropos for Sunday . . . Here's the word . . .
"After the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which returned to state Legislatures the authority to determine public policy regarding abortion, the pro-life community was celebrative. We have experienced since that time, though, many disappointments with the outcome of state referendums, beginning with our state of Kansas.
"Part of the reason that we lost in Kansas, and I think this is true in other places, is that there was a great outpouring of new young voters who voted for legal abortion. This amendment did not pass particularly because of the young people, and I can understand that in many ways. They have grown up in a culture where they have never known anything but legalized abortion, a culture of death. They have grown up in a culture where they have seen so much infidelity in love. They have grown up in a culture where my generation has failed to protect them from a pornography industry that targets children and young people to addict them to this phony and false kind of love."
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
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