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By: Scroop Moth

Scroop Moth — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:10:25 +0000

Weyrich belonged to the Eastern-Rite Roman Catholic Church. He wrote down his beliefs in an article which he circulated, dated April 2001:

Indeed He Is Risen! Our God could -not bear to see mankind suffering, even if it was from the consequences of his own actions, so He sent his only Son to become man. so that man could become like God. To accomplish that, Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God sent them a spiritual leader to rescue them from their sins end despite the fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, performed incredible miracles, even raised people from the dead, He was not what the Jews had expected, so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death.

So don’t cross a Jew! Even if all you want is to make him become like God.

Unfortunately, Jews kept crossing Weyrich. The New Republic called him “the Robespierre of the Right” in 1999, and Weyrich sued for libel. His case was dismissed. After that episode he circulated the thoughtful comments shown above, which came to the attention of a conservative Jew named Evan Gahr, who attacked Weyrich in the American Spectator and told the Washington Post that Weyrich was a “demented anti-Semite.” Gahr got crucified for that, sort of, as well he deserved. David Horowitz banned Gahr from writing in his publication.

See, one must read the comments on these posts to get the story.

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By: Sawgunner

Sawgunner — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:20:21 +0000

Buckley, Weyrich et al were able to prune away from the tree of conservatism the noxious Kudzu vine of Wallaceite-segregationist-John Birchers/Klansmen. I think until that was done Libs could often accurately attack “conservatives” as racists. I see conservatives today as true legatees of those who sought a “color blind society” where we are all judged by the content of our character.
Of course, now the fight is who will get to shape our character or that of our kids.

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By: Sawgunner

Sawgunner — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:13:24 +0000

The secular proAbort wing of the R party is alive and well. The wife of David Stockman (Reagan’s OMB budget-cutter) heads up a Republicans for Choice group. So Weyrich’s message didnt get out to all R folks.

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By: Sawgunner

Sawgunner — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:11:23 +0000

Didnt start off as an evangelical? So he’s a Catholic apostate? Lapsed non-practicing Jew?
His was an interesting pilgrimmage thru American politics. My strong point in school was always biology and as rudimentary as that was in my teen years I realized that tiny fertilized ovum was completely unlike both the host mother and sperm donor father. It was my Horton moment and it made me cease my ambivalence about the whole proLife/abortion debate.
At that time I was at best a placid pew-sitting social Southern Christian who saw church as a neat hang out place. (For you Greek scholars, for lotsa deep south folks it is the Agora of our polis). The proLife dilemma and my response to it lead me to the Savior. I think that’s true for lots of us instead of our commitmt to Christ leading us to champion unborn.

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