50 Bishops Say Abortion Most Important Issue in U.S. Election (Preaching May be Turning Election)

LifeSiteNews ^ | Friday October 24, 2008 | Thaddeus M. Baklinski

[GonzoII]

Investor's Business Daily and the TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (IBD/TIPP) has released a tracking poll that shows a dramatic shift in opinion that may be a result of the bishops' guidance to their flocks.

[GonzoII]

We Hope!!

[Names Ash Housewares]

As far as abortion goes, it doesn’t get much more extreme then Obama that is for sure.

[TrevorSnowsrap]

Has McCain promised if elected to nominate Supreme Court justices opposed to abortion?

[Bahbah]

Yes, we hope and we pray.

I am glad the Church is speaking out, and grateful, and encouraged.

[GonzoII]

Opposed to the legality of Roe v Wade.

[pray4liberty]

The Bishops, God bless them all, really have to hammer hard on this. The stakes are not just material, but spiritual. If Obama is elected and the "Freedom of Choice Act" passes, we will incur the wrath of God like we have never seen...and all those Catholics who willfully, consciously vote for Obama for the pottage of 'universal health care' will lose their souls.

Pray like you have never prayed before.

[KriegerGeist]

"Has McCain promised if elected to nominate Supreme Court justices opposed to abortion?"

What I heard out of his mouth was "strict constitutional constructionists justices that will interpret law according to the constitution, NOT legislate from the bench." He named justices like Thomas, Roberts and Alito.

[omega4412]

If Obama is elected and the Freedom of Choice Act is passed, will these bishops have guts enough to excommunicate all the nominally Catholic senators and representatives who vote for it? Not just a statement that they shouldn’t receive Communion, but formal excommunication?

[Mad_as_heck]

To me abortion is the defining moral issue of our age just as the battle against slavery dominated the middle of the 19th century. Either you get this issue or your entire nature as a moral being is more than suspect.

Obama fails the test and SO many others.

[TrevorSnowsrap]

No penumbras then eh...

Roe v. Wade was definitely a bad decision.

[C210N]

If Obama is elected and...

To discern the proper thing to do here, we should look to precident. Were there excommunications of USSR party officials and government "representatives"?

[SuziQ]

Bishop McManus, in Worcester MA, had an article in the Diocesan newspaper this week in which he stated that, though the Church has many concerns, including the economy, the war, poverty and immigration, NONE are more important than the issue of the right to life of all humans. Knowing that many Catholics try to justify their vote for the pro-abortion candidate by claiming proportionate reasons, because of the candidates’ stances on those other issues about which the Church is concerned, the Bishop asked, “The act of abortion in our country has claimed over 40 million lives of unborn babies. Will someone please tell me what that proportionate reason is?”

[fantom]

Hmm. I thought the great and powerful Zogbot said O had a wider support from catholics then does Mac.

[mlizzy]

[RKV]

When the bishops start publicly excommunicating pro-abortion “Catholic” politicians like Pelosi, Kennedy and Biden, then I’ll take them seriously. Not one second before. The rest is bullshit.

[GonzoII]

Its great to hear such clear logic from our pastors!!

[pray4liberty]

If the Bishops won’t do it, pray that the Pope will.

[KriegerGeist]

If the Catholics and Evangelicals are as charged or more charged than 2004, then there should be quite a turnout. I'm considered a "Protestant Evangelical" and have many Catholic friends. I don't know any that have not heard nor seen the Rev. Wright video of G-d D-m America and the spewed hatred. They have also heard about his IL pro-vote on infanticide...or born-alive stance. They're also afraid he is a closet Muslim by his own slips of the tongue, Cadafi and Powell.

In my conversations, I hear more fear of Obama than support for McCain, even Democrats... Taking over everything and nationalizing it all and wanting to shut up or destroy average citizens etc...It just sounds too Soviet Union-like for them. Season all that with some fear that he is not a 'Bill Cosby' or J.C. Watts, but a real white-hating Af-Am that wants to rob their wealth and 'spread it around' in perhaps a 'reparations way.'

I supose we'll see on Novmber 4th (if not a month or two after)

[Old Sarge]

Bishops can’t say these things!!! SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE! Bitter religious gun-cligers!!

[GonzoII]

All I can say is that they're having the guts right now to speak out as they should.

I'll pray for them that they have the guts to excommuncate too.