“But these proportionate reasons are largely assumed not to exist except in a single case, and that is when both candidates in a race are pro-abortion. “
THANK YOU FOR AGREEING WITH ME. MORE EVIDENCE TO BACK UP MY CASE.
as we discussed, in CT & MA both candidates are usually ‘pro-choice.’ Few exceptions. The decision is between a NARAL pro-abortion leftist, or a “pro-choice” candidate who wants to put restrictions on abortion such as parental notification ... and has an excellent pro-family record.
Only a fool would say, “none of the above.”
Catholics searching for a way out, will follow the Marxist Bishops who have infiltrated the church, but in truth know that voting for a pro-Abortion politician is sinful.
The topic of this thread is whether a Catholic can be a Liberal...being that liberalism in the United States is atheistic socialist, the answer is no.
You can refer to pro-life persons as fools if want, that's on you. However there is no obligation to vote, when the candidates are all pro abortion/pro-choice.
You pretend, for your own convenience, but certainly not your own salvation, that there is difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion candidates. There is no difference and there have been no record of difference in Ma and CT, that could lead you to believe so. Hence, you pretend there are.
It is a grave sin to vote for pro abortion/pro choice candidates.
There is no evil in the world proportionate to the evil of abortion, so the argument that one could justify voting for a pro abortion/pro choice candidate due to eliminating other evils does not hold for this issue at all, nor could it ever.
You seem to relish in the watered down Catholicism or the gray areas that you know in your heart are not gray at all. That is you own free will to do so, but encouraging others to follow your error is the real fool’s game.
It is only permissible to tolerate the lesser of two evils if a proportionate reason exists - regarding abortion, nothing is proportionate. If you don't see that, your heart is hard and you should pray, and I should pray, for your heart to be softened.