Posted on 05/30/2008 7:59:13 PM PDT by Salvation
Thus the democrats should not (my words) get ANY Catholic votes.
For that matter, I think any Christian voter should put pro-life issues above any party preferences.
Thoughts, anyone?
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This should fall into the, “Pope is Catholic”, type of story.
I am not a Christian but I always vote pro-life. As for party preferences, I’ve met very few pro-life Democrats.
**I’ve met very few pro-life Democrats.**
Isn’t that the truth. I know Obama has voted for Partial Birth Abortion and I think Hillary has too.
They will not get my vote.
True, McCain has been in favor of embryonic stemcell research, but I believe he will withdraw that support as his campaign matures.
Obama is way beyond partial birth abortion. He repeatedly supported infanticide of babies who survive botched abortions.
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Now the church MUST make this a concerted effort & MUST deny these pols communion that promote abortions. That's a start.
I think Pope Benedict XCI just put something out entitled similarly. I’ll look and link it for you to read.
Yes, there are a lot of Catholic CINOs in Congress who have voted on the wrong side of this. May the Lord have mercy on their souls.
Right now, they may NOT receive Communion.
Catholics will ignore this as they’ve ignored the ban on birth control.
It needs to be accessed by the misinformed, the obstinate and hard of heart.
There are a few, but they don't usually vote against the Dem. party because they are fixated on how the Democrats are the best party to help the poor. They tend to forget that the Democrats have been saying that for years, and we only seem to get MORE poor, not less of them.
About the only way that Democrats win elections to Congress in blue-collar, largely Christian areas, is when the party manages to talk a pro-life, or pro-gun Democrat into running. That's what happened when Bob Casey Jr. won from PA, and most recently in the Special Election in North Mississippi. The GOP had a conservative enough candidate, but the Democrat came on as even more conservative, and won the election.
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Not so fast here. Catholics are changing.
If they don’t accept this they are basically excommmunicating themselves.
Check with USSCB
Actually, I hate to say it, but they are STILL weaseling.
For instance, there’s this, which echoes earlier statements on this subject: “A Catholic cannot vote for a candidate who takes a position in favor of an intrinsic evil, such as abortion or racism, if the voter’s intent is to support that position.”
That’s the hooker.
Yes, racism is a grave evil. But it depends how you define the term. Does it mean that you don’t like blacks, or Jews, or Italians? That’s rather different from building a death camp or hanging people. It’s evil, but not on the scale of killing people.
Moreover, racism is currently defined as a sin that only whites can commit. What about blacks who hate whites? Do the bishops intend to say that you can’t vote for Obama, because he’s a racist? I strongly doubt it.
Furthermore, although the Republican party fought against slavery and mistreatment of blacks for a hundred years, virtually every voter in the country believes that they are anti-black, whereas the Democrats are pro black.
So, for practical purposes, putting abortion on a par with racism means that the Republicans and Democrats are, by definition, equally culpable. So you’d might as well vote for whoevere you like.
This is, of course, total nonsense. Abortion is always abortion, and always involves the intrinsic evil of taking a human life and degrading the dignity of human life. Racism involves a whole spectrum of evils, from mild to extreme. I don’t know ANY politicians on the national scene today who are running as racists, with a platform of reintroducing slavery. But I do know plenty who openly support abortion whenever it’s convenient.
Once again, the Bishops have FAILED to do their job. And you can be sure they will shut up about abortion once again as election day nears.
Notice, too, that the bishops equate abortion and racism a second time in these extracted packages. This was clearly deliberate, and clearly a compromise introduced to satisfy their liberal bias:
“As Catholics we are not single-issue voters. A candidate’s position on a single issue is not sufficient to guarantee a voter’s support. Yet a candidate’s position on a single issue that involves an intrinsic evil, such as support for legal abortion or the promotion of racism, may legitimately lead a voter to disqualify a candidate from receiving support.”
So, in othere words, it’s OK to vote for Teddy Kennedy, because his opponent is a Republican and therefore probably a racist.
“In other words, Catholics MUST always put their pro-life vote ABOVE the party vote.”
Absolutely!
The Clintons would not have won without the Catholic vote, and we still have over one million abortions each and every year!
But still a little bit more positive.
Keep your prayers coming.
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