I would encourage you to point out that you do not have to be catholic to be pro life. In fact there would not be a pro life movement at all if not for the dilligent hard work from evangelicals. Personally I welcome the Johnny fine-lately support from the catholic church. It would be nice if the parishioners would walk the talk. The vast majority of Catholics I know would never vote republican. Just saying.
I know that for a fact. I'm not all that familiar with the history of the Operation Rescue movement, but I do know that there's a local evangelical pastor in Central NY who went to jail for a month for contempt of court because he would not promise the judge that he'd stay away from the front of the local PP office and quit protesting.
I know that many Catholics like to act as if the pro-life movement is theirs but they can not lay claim to it. While the official church position is more outspoken about it than outside Protestantism, it doesn't mean they have a corner on the pro-life market. I know MANY non-Catholics who work in crisis pregnancy centers and protest abortion.
I worked with a LOT of Catholics at one time, for over ten years, and they admitted that they consistently voted Democrat. When asked by the Christians at work how they could vote Democrat with the dem stand on abortion, the answer was always the same. *Because the Democrats are "for the poor"*.
Go figure. Vote abortion supporting Democrat because of welfare.....
And these were very devout practicing Catholics. We could not figure it out.....
Well said!
We welcome any in this fight, but talking the talk is not the same as walking the walk.