Life issue foundational

There was a quote in Our Sunday Visitor recently about how a society is judged by how it treats the underprivileged and the weak.  I strongly believe our society will be judged on how it has respected life or failed to do so over the last 35 years. I want to make it very clear that I love and respect my country.  I also think we don’t speak strongly and directly enough about this important issue.  We all agree that the slaughtering of 6 million innocent Jews in Nazi Germany was a tragedy.  We have killed over 30 million innocent children in our country dating back to Roe v. Wade.  Very few German citizens or media knew the extent of the holocaust during World War II; can we say the same thing as Americans?  How will we be judged? Can anyone recall what the German government’s platform was on energy development, tax reform, education, welfare, or economic development in the 1940s?  There are issues in every generation that are more important than other issues.  We can no longer drown in a sea of relativism and cast a blind eye to what is going on in our great country. Silence is affirmation. I also know we live and work in a world that is uncomfortable addressing this issue.  I pray that we have the courage as Catholics to let our voices be heard.  We can’t afford to keep our views silent anymore when speaking to our neighbors or coworkers.  We can make a difference in this upcoming election.

Mark Malsam
Parker