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Pro-life congressman leaves empty seat at Obama’s SOTU in honor of ‘more than 55 million aborted babies’
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 12, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A leading pro-life congressman said today that there will be at least three empty seats at tonight's State of the Union address.
In a press release, Congressman Steve King, R-IA, said that in addition to the gallery seat left empty by President Obama in honor of victims of gun violence, "There will be another empty seat in the gallery during Obama’s last State of the Union address. I have reserved it to commemorate the lives of more than 55 million aborted babies, ‘the chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world.’"
"My seat on the floor of Congress will also be empty," said King. "I will be in the Member’s chapel praying for God to raise up a leader whom he will use to restore the Soul of America.”
“The first tears we have seen him shed in seven years were for the victims of the tragic Sandy Hook School shooting," King noted. "As far as we know, Obama has never shed a single tear for even one of the more than 9 million babies aborted under his watch. He is the most pro-abortion president ever."
King said he was "sickened... by a president who would veto the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, H.R. 3504 that would protect the lives, at least of those who survived the attempt on their lives, by abortionists."
Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, promised that he himself would leave a seat open for abortion victims at the State of the Union address if he is elected president. King has endorsed Cruz for president.
Ted Cruz Picks Rep. Steve King as a Campaign National Co-Chair
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz has chosen Rep. Steve King, who has created controversy by comparing immigrants to drug mules and cattle, to serve as a national co-chair for his campaign.
King endorsed Cruz in November last year saying that Cruz is the "one man that stands out as the courageous conservative whom I believe can restore the soul of America."
King is the representative for Iowa's 4th Congressional District and the announcement comes weeks before the symbolically important Iowa Caucus, which kicks off the primary election season where both political parties begin the process of selecting their candidate for President.
King has caused controversy in the past for his comments about immigrants.In an interview with Newsmax in 2013, Steve King said that for every valedictorian DREAMer who has been brought to this country by his or her family, "…there's another 100 out there who, they weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
http://www.nbcnews.com/
Cardinal Wuerl on Election: Abortion 'Fundamental Issue,' Has Taught Generation 'It's Alright to Kill'
The hot-button issue of abortion and the "disrespect for human life" it represents will be a key issue in the upcoming presidential race, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., tells Newsmax TV.
"It remains the fundamental basic issue," the influential Roman Catholic leader said Monday on Newsmax Prime.
"One reason it strikes me, one reason why we are so casual in our country with violence, we see violence exercised with such ease, such disrespect for human life."
Wuerl, who is archbishop of Washington, DC, said that a generation growing up in the wake of the notorious Roe vs. Wade decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion, has been "taught since they were infants, that it's alright to kill."
"It's all right to kill as long as the person is inconvenient to you and fits into a certain category. This category is nine months or less," he told Newsmax Chief Political Correspondent John Gizzi.
"What we have done is create a mentality that so depreciates the value of life, that all these other things follow very easily. You can't say to someone, life only has the value you give it and expect that they're not going to apply that principle in areas where you might differ."
Wuerl's archdiocese is currently embroiled in a lawsuit involving the church’s Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, which has challenged the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that some religious-affiliated organizations provide insurance that includes birth control.
"We're challenging the government on two points. One, we don't believe the government has the right to tell us what we should or shouldn't be doing when it comes to activities that we consider immoral," he told Gizzi.
"And secondly, we don't believe the government has the right to tell us that there's a distinction between what the Gospel tells us to do and how we worship. That's all part of being Catholic, of being part of a religious community.
"So we're in court for multiple reasons and we have to wait and see what the court actually decides. It's outrageous that we're even forced to this point and I know there are those that suggest maybe you should just all shut down."
Wuerl said he is hoping the Supreme Court will come to a decision that "recognizes that the right to religious freedom, the right to religious liberty is every bit as much our right as is the government's right to impose contraceptives."
Wuerl — the former Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle and Bishop of Pittsburgh before being promoted to the cardinalate by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 — is author of "Ways to Pray: Growing Closer to God," published by Our Sunday Visitor.
http://www.nbcnews.com/
Pro-life congressman leaves empty seat at Obama’s SOTU in honor of ‘more than 55 million aborted babies’
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 12, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A leading pro-life congressman said today that there will be at least three empty seats at tonight's State of the Union address.
In a press release, Congressman Steve King, R-IA, said that in addition to the gallery seat left empty by President Obama in honor of victims of gun violence, "There will be another empty seat in the gallery during Obama’s last State of the Union address. I have reserved it to commemorate the lives of more than 55 million aborted babies, ‘the chorus of voices that have never been heard in this world but are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world.’"
"My seat on the floor of Congress will also be empty," said King. "I will be in the Member’s chapel praying for God to raise up a leader whom he will use to restore the Soul of America.”
“The first tears we have seen him shed in seven years were for the victims of the tragic Sandy Hook School shooting," King noted. "As far as we know, Obama has never shed a single tear for even one of the more than 9 million babies aborted under his watch. He is the most pro-abortion president ever."
King said he was "sickened... by a president who would veto the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, H.R. 3504 that would protect the lives, at least of those who survived the attempt on their lives, by abortionists."
Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz, R-TX, promised that he himself would leave a seat open for abortion victims at the State of the Union address if he is elected president. King has endorsed Cruz for president.
Ted Cruz Picks Rep. Steve King as a Campaign National Co-Chair
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz has chosen Rep. Steve King, who has created controversy by comparing immigrants to drug mules and cattle, to serve as a national co-chair for his campaign.
King endorsed Cruz in November last year saying that Cruz is the "one man that stands out as the courageous conservative whom I believe can restore the soul of America."
King is the representative for Iowa's 4th Congressional District and the announcement comes weeks before the symbolically important Iowa Caucus, which kicks off the primary election season where both political parties begin the process of selecting their candidate for President.
King has caused controversy in the past for his comments about immigrants.In an interview with Newsmax in 2013, Steve King said that for every valedictorian DREAMer who has been brought to this country by his or her family, "…there's another 100 out there who, they weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert."
http://www.nbcnews.com/
Cardinal Wuerl on Election: Abortion 'Fundamental Issue,' Has Taught Generation 'It's Alright to Kill'
The hot-button issue of abortion and the "disrespect for human life" it represents will be a key issue in the upcoming presidential race, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., tells Newsmax TV.
"It remains the fundamental basic issue," the influential Roman Catholic leader said Monday on Newsmax Prime.
"One reason it strikes me, one reason why we are so casual in our country with violence, we see violence exercised with such ease, such disrespect for human life."
Wuerl, who is archbishop of Washington, DC, said that a generation growing up in the wake of the notorious Roe vs. Wade decision, in which the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion, has been "taught since they were infants, that it's alright to kill."
"It's all right to kill as long as the person is inconvenient to you and fits into a certain category. This category is nine months or less," he told Newsmax Chief Political Correspondent John Gizzi.
"What we have done is create a mentality that so depreciates the value of life, that all these other things follow very easily. You can't say to someone, life only has the value you give it and expect that they're not going to apply that principle in areas where you might differ."
Wuerl's archdiocese is currently embroiled in a lawsuit involving the church’s Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged, which has challenged the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that some religious-affiliated organizations provide insurance that includes birth control.
"We're challenging the government on two points. One, we don't believe the government has the right to tell us what we should or shouldn't be doing when it comes to activities that we consider immoral," he told Gizzi.
"And secondly, we don't believe the government has the right to tell us that there's a distinction between what the Gospel tells us to do and how we worship. That's all part of being Catholic, of being part of a religious community.
"So we're in court for multiple reasons and we have to wait and see what the court actually decides. It's outrageous that we're even forced to this point and I know there are those that suggest maybe you should just all shut down."
Wuerl said he is hoping the Supreme Court will come to a decision that "recognizes that the right to religious freedom, the right to religious liberty is every bit as much our right as is the government's right to impose contraceptives."
Wuerl — the former Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle and Bishop of Pittsburgh before being promoted to the cardinalate by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010 — is author of "Ways to Pray: Growing Closer to God," published by Our Sunday Visitor.
http://www.nbcnews.com/
