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You must think that it is OK to endorse a candidate who willfully breaks the commandment: “Thou shalt not kill.” My response — never OK to endorse abortion. Even in the case of a mother’s death. Most mothers decide to let their infant live, and they will take their chances with God. It’s doing what is right...........and abortion is never right. Babies can always be adopted or raised by someone else. Please, please, pray for an end to abortion.

No, I was clarifying Catholic Teaching on the issue. I am staunchly pro-life and believe that voting for the Obamanation is unthinkable for a Christian to do for a multitude of reasons, his abortion stance being at the top. No, I am not Catholic as you certainly know, but I can read:

“A Catholic cannot vote for a candidate who takes a position in favor of an intrinsic evil, such as abortion or racism, if the voters intent is to support that position. In such cases a Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in grave evil. At the same time, a voter should not use a candidates opposition to an intrinsic evil to justify indifference or inattentiveness to other important moral issues involving human life and dignity.”

Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States United States Conference of Catholic Bishops http://www.usccb.org/faithfulcitizenship/FCStatement.pdf

Let me guess: the Bishops of the UCCB are not Catholic?

Its unfortunate that the Bishops Conference wrote that “A Catholic cannot vote for a candidate who takes a position in favor of an intrinsic evil, such as abortion OR RACISM..” (my emphasis). Gee, I haven’t heard of any candidates running on the racism platform. That’s because there aren’t any. Yet, “racism” is still included although it isn’t an issue. Why have the Bishops so muddied the water? It would seem to this observant Catholic that the bishops are holding out some wiggle room to leftist kooks who accuse conservatives (with no proof) of racism. If one candidate is pro-abortion and one is pro-racism, then the voter can do as he wishes, so the leftist kook would conclude. Of course, this would only really work if conservatives supported the murder of 1,000,000 non-whites a year. Otherwise, it is still not an equivalent to abortion for Catholics. There are millions of clear-headed conservatives among the ranks of Catholics. Unfortunately, few of those Catholics happen to be bishops or professors in “Catholic” universities these days.
Armydoc further writes: “Let me guess: the Bishops of the U[S]CCB are not Catholic?” My friend, you have no idea...