Serious thoughts...

I am getting sick of being called a conservative Catholic. I am not conservative, although I have become more conservative in my thoughts as I have gotten older. I am very liberal in my views outside of the Catholic faith. I don't vote a straight ticket, I never have, and I doubt I ever will. I have never been able to reconcile MY beliefs and feelings to one party or platform. I believe in Equal Rights and the right for all human beings to have the opportunity to live in peace, to be treated as people, not commodities, to pursue freedom and happiness.

I used to wonder if I was the kind of person who would stand for others. If I was the type of person who would step up and try to fight what I thought was wrong. I would learn about the women's movement...the suffragettes, and wonder if I would have marched with them? Would I have marched with civil rights leaders in the sixties (before I was born) or would I have sat home and been afraid to speak? Would I have kept silent in Germany when my Jewish neighbors were persecuted? I have always hoped that if I saw an injustice, a wrong, that I would stand up and fight it.

In my opinion, the current fight for the rights of unborn humans is the one that is asking me, right now, if I am going to keep silent or if I am going to speak out. I cannot stay silent. The voices of the unborn cry out to me in my sleep. There cannot be a right to choose when that choice ends the life of another. So. There it is. This is beginning of my fight for those babies crying out to me in the night.