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1 posted on 10/26/2004 4:46:21 AM PDT by billorites
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Catholics, Protestant, Jewish, the facts demand that they vote for BUSH.


2 posted on 10/26/2004 4:49:52 AM PDT by marty60
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Funny, but if I didn't now any better I'd say that the Know Nothings were still alive and well today under the title of Demonrat. :-)


3 posted on 10/26/2004 4:50:40 AM PDT by mike182d
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If you BELIEVE IN ANYTHING other than hate, the choice is clear...vote Bush.


5 posted on 10/26/2004 5:09:03 AM PDT by elizabetty
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Let's see... Vote for Bush or go to Hell? Hmmm... Let me weigh that choice carefully...


6 posted on 10/26/2004 5:34:16 AM PDT by TommyDale
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Kerry has even castigated church leaders for weighing-in on the marriage issue, calling it “inappropriate” and a breach of the “separation of church and state.”

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This twisted logic of "separation" only goes one way. I heard a news item last night that an accrediting body of journalism schools is going to withdraw accreditation from schools which do not support "diversity" in the value of homosexuality.

This means any Christian, or other, University which does not 'value, support and include' the homosexual agenda is going to lose its ability to grant degrees in journalism.

I saw this happen in Canada where the BC Teachers Union forcced the government to withdraw accreditation of the Education degrees of students studying at a fine Christian university.


7 posted on 10/26/2004 5:36:24 AM PDT by maica ( November 2nd is Vietnam Veterans' Day)
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In contrast, President Bush speaks of supporting the “culture of life” — the call to “uphold and affirm the dignity of every person, rich and poor, able and disabled, born and unborn” — and he has backed his words with action.

A CATHOLIC VOTER’S GUIDE -
THE FIVE NON-NEGOTIABLE ISSUES

These five current issues concern actions that are intrinsically evil and must never be promoted by the law. Intrinsically evil actions are those which fundamentally conflict with the moral law and can never be deliberately performed under any circumstances. It is a serious sin to deliberately endorse or promote any of these actions, and no candidate who really wants to advance the common good will support any action contrary to the non-negotiable principles involved in these issues.

1. Abortion

The Church teaches that, regarding a law permitting abortions, it is "never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or to vote for it" (EV 73). Abortion is the intentional and direct killing of an innocent human being, and therefore it is a form of homicide.

The unborn child is always an innocent party, and no law may permit the taking of his life. Even when a child is conceived through rape or incest, the fault is not the child's, who should not suffer death for others' sins.

2. Euthanasia

Often disguised by the name "mercy killing," euthanasia also is a form of homicide. No person has a right to take his own life, and no one has the right to take the life of any innocent person.

In euthanasia, the ill or elderly are killed, by action or omission, out of a misplaced sense of compassion, but true compassion cannot include intentionally doing something intrinsically evil to another person (cf. EV 73).

3. Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Human embryos are human beings. "Respect for the dignity of the human being excludes all experimental manipulation or exploitation of the human embryo" (CRF 4b).

Recent scientific advances show that often medical treatments that researchers hope to develop from experimentation on embryonic stem cells can be developed by using adult stem cells instead. Adult stem cells can be obtained without doing harm to the adults from whom they come. Thus there is no valid medical argument in favor of using embryonic stem cells. And even if there were benefits to be had from such experiments, they would not justify destroying innocent embryonic humans.

4. Human Cloning

"Attempts . . . for obtaining a human being without any connection with sexuality through 'twin fission,' cloning, or parthenogenesis are to be considered contrary to the moral law, since they are in opposition to the dignity both of human procreation and of the conjugal union" (RHL I:6).

Human cloning also involves abortion because the "rejected" or "unsuccessful" embryonic clones are destroyed, yet each clone is a human being.

5. Homosexual "Marriage"

True marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Legal recognition of any other union as "marriage" undermines true marriage, and legal recognition of homosexual unions actually does homosexual persons a disfavor by encouraging them to persist in what is an objectively immoral arrangement.

"When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral" (UHP 10).

ABBREVIATIONS

CCC Catechism of the Catholic Church

CPL Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, Doctrinal Notes on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life

CRF Pontifical Council for the Family, Charter of the Rights of the Family

EV John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)

RHL Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation

UHP Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Considerations regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons



Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics BUSH FOR CATHOLICS

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9 posted on 10/26/2004 10:56:13 AM PDT by NYer ("The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of Bishops." St. John Chrysostom)
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