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50 Bishops Say Abortion Most Important Issue in U.S. Election (Preaching May be Turning Election)
LifeSiteNews ^
| Friday October 24, 2008
| Thaddeus M. Baklinski
Posted on 10/25/2008 4:23:57 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesitenews.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bishops; catholicvote; christianvote; evangelicals; mccain
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We Hope!!
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:23:57 PM PDT
by
GonzoII
To: GonzoII
As far as abortion goes, it doesn’t get much more extreme then Obama that is for sure.
2
posted on
10/25/2008 4:28:21 PM PDT
by
Names Ash Housewares
(Refusing to kneel before the polling gods and whimper. FIGHT!)
To: GonzoII
Has McCain promised if elected to nominate Supreme Court justices opposed to abortion?
To: GonzoII
Yes, we hope and we pray.
I am glad the Church is speaking out, and grateful, and encouraged.
4
posted on
10/25/2008 4:29:22 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Typical white person-Snow white)
To: TrevorSnowsrap
Opposed to the legality of Roe v Wade.
5
posted on
10/25/2008 4:30:16 PM PDT
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
To: GonzoII; Salvation
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.
6
posted on
10/25/2008 4:31:34 PM PDT
by
pray4liberty
(Watch, pray, and work. This election will separate the sheep from the goats.)
To: TrevorSnowsrap
"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.
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:33:14 PM PDT
by
KriegerGeist
(I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
To: GonzoII
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?
8
posted on
10/25/2008 4:35:13 PM PDT
by
omega4412
To: Names Ash Housewares
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.
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:36:51 PM PDT
by
Mad_as_heck
(The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
To: KriegerGeist
No penumbras then eh...
Roe v. Wade was definitely a bad decision.
To: omega4412
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"?
11
posted on
10/25/2008 4:40:24 PM PDT
by
C210N
(The television has mounted the most serious assault on Republicanism since Das Kapital.)
To: GonzoII
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?”
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:40:30 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Mad_as_heck
Hmm. I thought the great and powerful Zogbot said O had a wider support from catholics then does Mac.
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:41:40 PM PDT
by
fantom
To: Names Ash Housewares
14
posted on
10/25/2008 4:42:37 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
To: pray4liberty
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.
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:42:42 PM PDT
by
RKV
(He who has the guns makes the rules)
To: SuziQ
Its great to hear such clear logic from our pastors!!
16
posted on
10/25/2008 4:45:21 PM PDT
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
To: RKV
If the Bishops won’t do it, pray that the Pope will.
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:47:44 PM PDT
by
pray4liberty
(Watch, pray, and work. This election will separate the sheep from the goats.)
To: GonzoII
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)
18
posted on
10/25/2008 4:49:27 PM PDT
by
KriegerGeist
(I'm now considered a "Bitter Clinger" to my guns and religion.)
To: GonzoII
Bishops can’t say these things!!! SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE! Bitter religious gun-cligers!!
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:50:13 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Illic Est Haud Deus)
To: omega4412
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.
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posted on
10/25/2008 4:51:29 PM PDT
by
GonzoII
("That they may be one...Father")
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