By Tim Rohr
Around every local election I receive several inquiries about who to vote for. The reason is The Esperansa Project used to poll candidates on where they stood on moral issues, particularly abortion. In the past we had some clear lines which could be drawn based on the voting records of candidates running for re-election, and on how new candidates said they would vote on proposed legislation - legislation The Esperansa Project would propose.
The main thing we did NOT do was ask a candidate if he or she was "pro-life." That word means nothing. Heck, even Nancy Pelosi swears to be "pro-life" because she is against the death penalty. You see how screwed up that word becomes? Especially since we have a pope who has made the death penalty, anti-illegal immigration, and not being "green" new sins.
For the last few election cycles I have been busy with other matters, including ridding our local church of some pretty bad actors as well as fixing some personal issues. However, this election, it's not hard. We haven't had to propose any legislation to force candidates to take sides.
Senators Fisher and Parkinson have introduced the most radical pro-abortion legislation, not just in Guam, but in the entire nation. And beyond their deadly bills, Fisher has tried to slip money to abortion advocate extraordinaire, Jayne Flores, through his sham "doula" bill. And when that got shot down, he tried to slip it to her again in a budget bill.
So at least we know who NOT to vote for.
Sadly, they'll probably get re-elected because as the otherwise nice-guy new archbishop said in his recent message to voters:
Despite being a predominantly “Catholic” island, Guam does not seem to be authentically pro- life. Pro-abortion legislation is continually promoted and passed by pro-abortion leaders. The number of pro-life people from our Catholic Church and other religious denominations who courageously speak up for the unborn face increasingly strong opposition by many who hail abortion loudly or who remain silent and look the other way.
Because he's a nice-guy, the archbishop says "seem to be." Such a characterization is demonstrably false given Guam's history of electing and re-electing the most vicious advocates of abortion and our record of slaughter - particularly by mostly Catholic CHamoru's of their own.
I am afraid our new Archbisop, who has already been out of his "kingdom"over 30 days in less than his 1st 100 days in office, is already checking all the wrong dots: enthusiasm about the highly controversial synod on synodality, aloofness, rubbing elbows with the powerful, embracing the church of nice and all its deviations on Church teachings. Well everyone was in a hurry for a new bishop.....your wishes are fulfilled.
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