You Can’t Be Catholic And Pro-”Choice.” Period.

LiveAction.org ^ | 8/3/11 | Kristen Walker

[rhema]

Not what I said at all. Perhaps I should have said that you cannot be pro-choice and follow Christ.

Nor, for that matter, can you be pro-choice and an honest, credible Catholic. The ersatz, self-styled "Catholics" who pick and choose what they'll reject of foundational church teaching are the intellectual and spiritual kin of the self-styled "Christians" who, rejecting what they don't like in the Bible, are functional atheists.

[jaydubya2]

That's why I dislike the term "Pro-choice", it's not specific enough. It should be replaced with "Pro-abortion", cause that's what we're talking about.

Now "Pro-life", that's easy to understand.

[RitaOK]

Thanks, Cronos. Do your best to salvage my reputation here with AB and all.

[Campion]

You can be Catholic, Baptist, or of any other denomination and be “pro-choice”.

A person is not a Catholic because they attend a Catholic church (even if they do so regularly) or because they consider themselves a Catholic. They become a Catholic by being baptized into the Catholic faith. At that time (by proxy if they're baptized as an infant) they make a profession of faith. (And if they're baptized as an infant, they make that profession of faith later in life.)

That profession of faith has certain non-negotiable elements. One of those elements is that abortion -- the intentional killing of an unborn baby -- is never morally justifiable. Someone who rejects that is either rejecting the profession of faith they once made, or they simply never meant it in the first case.

In either case, they're Catholic only in the most superficial and legalistic of senses. They can repent and change that, but that's where they are for the time being.

So a person can't be a good Catholic and be pro-abortion. As Scripture says, "God is not mocked". They need to repent.

[Blood of Tyrants]

I should have written “can’t”.

[wagglebee]

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