Rites and wrongs: understanding the communion flap.(communion and abortion)
From: National Review
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Date: 5/31/2004
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Author: Ponnuru, Ramesh
IN one of Abraham Lincoln's 1860 speeches there is a passage that pours cool scorn on those who claim to think that slavery is wrong, but "denounce all attempts to restrain it": "You will not let us do a single thing as if it was wrong; there is no place where you will allow it to be even called wrong! ... We must not call it wrong in politics because that is bringing morality into politics, and we must not call it wrong in the pulpit because that is bringing politics into religion." ...
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