Ugh...Greek Orthodox priest shills for McCain

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This was reposted on the Orthodox Circle forum, originally taken from the e-mail list of a Greek Orthodox priest identified only as Fr. Demetrios. The article is long, but I will post the relevant extract below. I'd appreciate y'all's help in rebutting it:

One good way to start is by casting our vote for them – and the 50 million little martyrs that perished before them – in the Presidential election on November 4, 2008. In other words we must vote ONLY for the candidates – in all the races – that will defend the child-in-the- womb’s right to life. Therefore, at least one of the presidential candidates cannot receive our vote; if we are sincere in our desire to vote for the “little ones,” who cannot vote. His name is Barack Hussein Obama. My brothers and sisters in Christ, I cannot imagine anyone in this nation who could be more pro-DEATH (because that is the real meaning behind the term “pro-choice”) than this man. When he was a state senator, he 3-times voted against a bill that would have required a physician to care for a child that was born alive during an abortion. In other words, Mr. Obama was saying – in plain English – that the abortion procedure has the right to a dead baby, even if it is born alive! Now there is a national law that requires such protection, and he has publically voiced his opposition to it. He was not a U.S. Senator, at the time of the vote. For your information, however, the Senate – filled with pro-death senators – voted UNANIMOULSY for this Bill; and even the pro-death groups NARAL & NOW supported it!

Listen to his own words as to what he plans to do if he is elected: “he first (my emphasis) thing I’d do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act …” With a majority in both houses, he could indeed get this bill to his desk. Even the ACLU states that such a bill would eliminate all restricts to abortions, now existing in several states. And in his stern criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the federal ban of the horrendous partial birth abortion procedure, here is what he had to say about the types of judges he would put on the bench. Filled with euphemisms and hypocrisy, his words become even more dangerous than disgusting: “Justice Roberts said he saw himself just as an umpire but the issues that come before the Court are not sport, they’re life and death. And we need somebody who’s got the heart—the empathy—to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old—and that’s the criteria by which I’ll be selecting my judges”.

In the Holy Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I rebuke these words Mr. Obama! Indeed, “life and death” are involved; but why does an innocent child have to die a brutal death? What has caused you to have a “heart,” which is so cold it would not even try to save a child born alive during an abortion? It is a wonder you can even have a heart, when you justify the gruesome partial birth abortion procedure, during which: only a portion of the child’s head remains in the birth canal, then the doctor inserts a scissors in the back of the child’s head to create a whole, after which he use a powerful suction devise to draw out the child’s brains. Where is all of your “empathy” for the pre-born child, whose brutal murder is “justified” by its “crime” of having been conceived? Indeed, Mr. Obama, I rebuke your words in Jesus’ Name!

I'm particularly interested in knowing more about Obama's reasons for opposing the bill that Fr. Demetrios talks about. I understand that it was because he objected to specific provisions in the bill rather than the principle of the thing, but can anyone give me more details?