Faithful Citizenship: “Catholic Vote” is very sought after

http://www.catholicexchange.com/2008/06/11/112802/ ^ | Mickey Addison

[Salvation]

Pro-life ping for this election.

How will you vote?

[Salvation]

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“Human life is sacred.  The dignity of the human person is the foundation of a moral vision for society.  Direct attacks on innocent persons are never morally acceptable, at any stage or in any condition.  In our society, human life is especially under direct attack from abortion. 

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Obama supports abortion, even partial birth abortion. No Catholic at all can vote for him. Catholics MUST always vote pro-life.

[Salvation]

Open thread.

[Salvation]

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[ConorMacNessa]

I will vote pro-life, as always.

[MHGinTN]

"Obama supports abortion, even partial birth abortion. No Catholic at all can vote for him. Catholics MUST always vote pro-life." ... Tom 'dungheap' Harkin, Barbara Boxer, Ted 'the swimmer' Kennedy ... the list of democrats claiming to be catholics, who are as leftist as Barry Obama on abortion, is too long, and they get voted back into office election after election by people claiming to be 'good Catholics'. The reality is sadly far from what the head of the Catholic Church directs, and defending and promoting the slaughter of alive, sensing unborn people antithetical to Christ's Grace which is ignored because the voice of The Holy Spirit is being ignored. As a nation, we are paying for this evil and will be called to pay far more than people would like to know.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

This defines the very issue I am having right now with a few liberal Catholics who refuse to see a hierarchy of values. They pose the straw-man that you have to choose between A (a child molesting, polluter and poor employer who is pro life) and B (a adopting, environmentalist who cares for his/her workers but it pro-choice). Obviously A doesn’t exist, but they use that to justify their B.

[Salvation]

You listed a lot of CINOs there. Thanks. What they are doing is excommunicating themselves.

1:

CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2271  (618 bytes )  preview document matches 1 Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2271.htm

97%

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CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2272  (580 bytes )  preview document matches 2 Formal cooperation in an abortion constitutes a grave offense. The Church attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to this crime against human life. "A URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2272.htm

96%

3:

CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2322  (290 bytes )  preview document matches 2 From its conception, the child has the right to life. Direct abortion, that is, abortion willed as an end or as a means, is a "criminal" practice (GS 27 § 3), URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2322.htm

96%

4:	CCC Search Result - Paragraph # 2274  (554 bytes )  preview document matches gravely opposed to the moral law when this is done with the thought of possibly inducing an abortion, depending upon the results: a diagnosis must not be the equivalent URL: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2274.htm

[Salvation]

Hopefully I got the links fixed so that they don’t run together. Sorry.

[Salvation]

For even more CINOs go to:

http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/ > Dissent> Speakers and Authors

[hunter112]

I moved from a low-religion area (WA state) to a higher-relgion area (NY) a bit over a year ago, and my experience is that it makes no difference what religion people culturally identify with. I'm surrounded by Catholic-this, and Catholic-that, but people here still treat each other like crap on the highways, are still deeply prejudiced, and are less polite and decent than the Northwesterners I left behind who didn't wear their religion on their sleeves.

They're just as willing here to vote Rat, even though they profess to be Catholic. It's just something they do because their parents and grandparents did it, more of an ethnic pride thing. We got rid of that in the NW, too, I've heard more names that the Irish call the Italians (and vice-versa) than I ever did back in WA.

[Salvation]

Thanks for your eye-opening perspective.

[hunter112]

You're welcome. I grew up Catholic, and am familiar with most of the practices, but I guess when I moved from Indiana, I might have been too young (13) to notice the hypocrisy. Or, maybe the thirty-seven years I spent in WA allowed East Coast Catholics a chance to become hypocrites over the last few decades. Democrats aren't Jack Kennedy anymore, they're baby killers, and why people who call themselves Catholics don't see that, I'll never understand.

[Salvation]

You said it better than I could have.

**Democrats aren’t Jack Kennedy anymore, they’re baby killers, and why people who call themselves Catholics don’t see that, I’ll never understand.**

When one looks at the Catechism of the Catholic Church and sees that anyone who even assists (in any way) with an abortion is excommunicated..............it tries my brains to try to figure out why these Catholics can’t see the truth.

No Obama vote for me.

[MHGinTN]

Dittos

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

The other day, a freeper was trying to claim that Catholics can vote for a proabort IF that candidate’s position on abortion is not the reason for the support-as if a candidate can be a good guy when he’s not advocating the brutal torture and dismemberment of thousands of innocent babies each day.

[Salvation]

NEVER can a Catholic support a candidate who breaks one of the Ten Commandments.

“Thou shalt not kill.”

Tell them that.

[C19fan]

This whole “Catholic vote” is a myth. You have those who go to Mass on a regular basis and those who are cafeteria CINOS, then you have Irish/Italian ethnic Catholics whose ancestors went through Ellis Island or earlier and the Latino Catholics who sneaked across the border. These groups besides maybe going to the same overall church have nothing in common.

[Soliton]

Had to leave the table when my wife’s elderly mother and aunt, both of whom volunteer at their parish, voted for Hitlery. Another older female friend, a small college professor, just left the Church over sexism.

The Church is reliant on women, but it is losing them.

[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

Oh, several of us responded, but the freeper did not return- a hit and run lie about Church teaching.