Right or wrong? Or is it really right team, wrong team? Bill Clinton, the same one who legalized partial birth abortion like he owed the devil his soul, used to be pro-life, you know. And George Bush, the father of our current president and a former U.S. President, used to be pro-choice. Jesus had a zealot among his apostles, but was Jesus a Republican?

Republicans have a general “pro-life” stand, yet some poor would apply to Republicans our Lord’s gripe against the Pharisees and say that they place heavy loads on people’s backs and then won’t lift a finger to help them. And the Democratic party used to be the party of the Catholic Church because of its concern for the poor and disadvantaged – the issues with which the Church was immediately concerned when abortion hadn’t yet pushed its way to front and center as the unspeakable emergency – yet the Democratic party has now taken a general stand in favor of abortion. And not in spite of its concern for the disadvantaged but indeed because of it.

How does one remain wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove? Obedience. I vote by the issue only. I analyze the candidates’ record and promises to assess what will best effect what is right according to God’s known priorities. I don’t automatically vote for the pro-life party when there is no pro-life candidate at all. But do you say, the parties, strategy, are a necessity? Yes, organized collective effort can help us achieve important goals, but do we make just use of such alignments or do we allow them to dictate what we do and who we are? We vote candidates into office so that they can work for us, don’t we? That a candidate gets voted into office one vote AND one issue at a time AND because what we want is what we should be able to expect because it is only just, is something we need to make crystal clear, then, and persistently. How?

God is ultimately the One upon Whom we can depend, especially for the impossible -- and He chose to depend upon the Fiat of one sole Virgin to enter the world so that by very virtue of all screaming “Crucify Him!” He could redeem all. We don’t know everything like God does, that’s why obedience is a straight shot to success, by God’s definition. This too is strategy. And abortion is a symptom of how each of us has been living and making choices – including jaded ones – long before it became legal seemingly overnight. And obedience says that if you stick to your guns, the parties will know not to take you for granted.

(“Whose Side? Are You On?” is Article #3 of Anna Maria Agolli’s Self-Syndicated Column, TRANSFORM THE WORLD © November 27, 2007 Feast of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal)

Anna Maria Agolli is the head of Feast of the Holy Innocents – The End of Herod, an effort that can eradicate abortion and corruption by virtue of processing a federal complaint for justice. Information and a petition can be found on her website:
http://www.geocities.com/anna_agolli/The_End_of_Herod.html
http://www.geocities.com/duevoltetre/29March07KennedyLetter.htm
http://www.cambridgewhoswho.com/Member_Profile/Anna_Agolli/231124.html
http://www.cambridgewhoswho.com/Member_Profile/PopeBenedictXVI_/8552.html