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A time for choosing

The partial-birth abortion issue, if nothing else, is helping draw a bright line between the good guys and the bad guys. Evangelist Billy Graham, whom we've criticized in the past for not being a sufficiently strong voice for life, told President Clinton face-to-face that he was wrong-dead wrong-to veto the partial-birth abortion bill. Mr. Graham reported the confrontation personally to columnist Cal Thomas, who told WORLD he regarded the evangelist's act as an "example of great courage." Indeed, Mr. Graham, in Washington last week to receive the Congressional Gold Medal, was in good company, even as Mr. Clinton was in bad company. A few days earlier, Pope John Paul II also publicly criticized Mr. Clinton's veto-an action earlier used by this pope toward only four other heads of state, Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini (1979), Iraq's Saddam Hussein (1980), Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega (1988), and Cuba's Fidel Castro (1993). So who are you with: Billy Graham and the pope, or Fidel Castro and the president? Casting their lots with the latter pair, several mainline church leaders last week congratulated Mr. Clinton by letter for his abortion veto. Signers included James Andrews, stated clerk of the Presbyterian Church (USA); Edmond L. Browning, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; Paul Sherry, president of the United Church of Christ; Thomas White Wolf Fassett, executive secretary of the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church.

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