Catholic Newspaper Tells Anti-Abortion Voters Not to Support Giuliani

FoxNews.com ^ | March 7, 2007

[madprof98]

A Catholic newspaper is telling readers that Catholics shouldn't support White House hopeful Rudy Giuliani because of his support for allowing women access to abortions.

The National Catholic Register's editorial urges anti-abortion voters to choose another candidate other than Giuliani.

"A Republican party led by a pro-abortion politician would become a pro-abortion party," according to the editorial that appears on the Web site and is set to appear next week in the newspaper's print edition.

Editors say "they hope that pro-lifers will 'be reasonable,' not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and go along quietly," but "we won't."

"When they ask us to 'be reasonable' and go along with a pro-abortion leader, they assume that there is something unreasonable about the pro-life position to start with," the editors wrote. "We’re sorry, but we don’t see what is so unreasonable about the right to life.

"What looks supremely unreasonable to us is that we should trust a leader who not doesn’t only reject the right to life but even supports partial-birth abortion, which is more infanticide than abortion," according to the editorial.

[snip]

"Would a pro-abortion president give us a pro-life Supreme Court justice? Maybe he would in his first term. But we’ve seen in the Democratic Party how quickly and completely contempt for the right to life corrupts. Even if a President Giuliani did the right thing for a short time, it’s likely the party that accepted him would do the wrong thing for a long time," the editorial reads.

[madprof98]

Well, sounds like your (former) pastor and candidate Rudy are two peas in a pod. I can see why you'd be confused about Catholic moral teaching.

[DKNY]

And I can see how a "holier than thou" like you can't discern the difference. So run along and preach to someone else, nothing you have to say interests me.

[madprof98]

I freely admit it's hard for me to tell one adulterer from another adulterer. But you Rudybots have decided your pro-abort cross-dresser is God, so there's no talking with you.

[Antoninus]

Sounds about right to me. No practicing Catholic in their right mind would support Rudy. And almost none that I know will. And I know a lot. And the sad thing is, most of these folks are former Democrats who became Republicans thanks to social issues. But now, they're thinking they might have been duped....

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[madprof98]

most of these folks are former Democrats who became Republicans thanks to social issues. But now, they're thinking they might have been duped....

Listening to one GOP pundit after another telling us we're theocratic one-issue voters with ridiculously outdated concerns--not to mention the PARADE of FReepers spouting the same line--does tend to give some of us second thoughts about the Republican Party all right. I don't mind not voting in the next Presidential election. I just hope the Giuliani GOP is crushed into the dirt so I don't have to wait on some enterprising Reagan-type to reinvent a party in which Christians will be welcome once again.

[NotchJohnson]

Is their a Catholic ping list? Frst of all, Hillary is a bad candidate. Also, how come they get candidates to the left of Mao but we get Rockefeller Republicans? Not really fair.