Wow is all I have to say about this paragraph from a Jim Wallis interview in CT:
To be a single-issue voter is not the most responsible kind of Christian citizenship. I was at Notre Dame this spring with a room full of students and faculty. Most of them were very committed to the poor. They were against the war in Iraq, very pro-environment and pro-life. And they struggled with the Democrats on abortion. One young woman stood up and said, “Four thousand unborn lives were lost today. How can I vote on any other issue than abortion?” I let the question linger a bit, and then another student stood up and said, 9,000 lives were lost today to HIV/AIDS; that’s a pro-life issue, too.” Another student stood up and said, “Thirty thousand children died today because of hunger and disease related to hunger.” It’s what I call the “silent tsunami.” How do we deal with that as a pro-life issue?
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