Not-So-Rare Abortion
The Democratic Party adopted a new platform Monday that reaffirms the party's support for abortion. The platform states the party "strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right."
The platform eliminates a phrase in previous platforms that abortion should be "safe, legal and rare."
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards was scheduled to speak at the convention tonight.
Speaking of Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts is handing out interesting souvenirs at the convention: condoms with an anti-McCain message.
The condoms come wrapped in bright magenta matchbook covers with 10 slogans, including, “PROTECT YOURSELF FROM JOHN MCCAIN (in this election).”
Gay activist unveils strategy
Making a rare public appearance at the convention Monday, homosexual activist Tim Gill laid out his national strategy to "flip" state legislatures to gay-friendly Democratic control.
"The Republican Party is controlled by a bunch of bigots, and the only way the bigots are going to learn is if we take their power away from them," he said. "What is the very most important thing you can do is go back and support those pro-gay state legislators, eliminate the anti-gay state legislators."
Gill, founder of a publishing software company, has given millions to advance the homosexual agenda. In 2004, he helped Democrats seize control of the Colorado statehouse for the first time in 30 years. A slew of gay-friendly laws followed.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Watch the CBN report from Denver.
Read previous CitizenLink reports on Tim Gill.
'A father's love'
At the convention Monday night, Michelle Obama shared stories about her family, including the birth of her first daughter.
"The Barack Obama I know today is the same man I fell in love with 19 years ago," she said. "He's the same man who drove me and our new baby daughter home from the hospital 10 years ago this summer, inching along at a snail's pace, peering anxiously at us in the rearview mirror, feeling the whole weight of her future in his hands, determined to give her everything he'd struggled so hard for himself, determined to give her what he never had: the affirming embrace of a father's love."
Sen. Obama wanted a mother's and father's love for his daughter, but he doesn't seem to care if some children don't grow up with a mom and dad.
In a recent statement to the Family Equality Council, Obama said: "We also have to do more to support and strengthen LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) families. … That’s why we have to eliminate discrimination against LGBT families. And that’s why we have to extend equal treatment in our family and adoption laws."
Equal treatment should mean a mom and dad for every child.
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