Posted on 08/03/2016 2:51:21 PM PDT by NYer
.- Catholics need to stop voting for pro-abortion politicians, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson told an international gathering of the Knights of Columbus.
“Pope Francis has emphasized how important it is for Catholics to be engaged in the political process,” Anderson said Aug 2. “His words regarding the importance of Catholics being faithful citizens are especially important for us.”
Anderson’s remarks to the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus meeting in Toronto reiterated his comments to the 2008 Supreme Convention in Quebec.
“We need to end the political manipulation of Catholic voters by abortion advocates,” he said. “It is time to end the entanglement of Catholic people with abortion killing. It is time to stop creating excuses for voting for pro-abortion politicians.”
“Abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale,” he added.
Anderson said politics does not mean partisanship, but a stand for the common good and for moral and religious values that make free, democratic institutions possible.
Foremost among these values, he said, is “the equal dignity of every human life and the right of every person to freely practice their religion.”
“We will never succeed in building a culture of life if we continue to vote for politicians who support a culture of death.”
He reflected on the political question of whether one should support a candidate attractive for many reasons but who supports abortion.
“Some partisan advocates have sought to excuse support for pro-abortion candidates through a complex balancing act. They claim other issues are important enough to offset a candidate’s support for abortion,” he said.
“But the right to abortion is not just another political issue,” Anderson said. “It is in reality a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.”
He noted that 40 million is a figure greater than the entire population of Canada.
“What political issue could possibly outweigh this human devastation?” he asked. “The answer, of course, is that there is none.”
His 2008 remarks urged faithful Catholics to build a new politics not according to the status quo, but according to their dedication to “building up a new culture of life.”
In his latest remarks Anderson said he would add that Catholics need to “think in new ways” to build “a civilization of love.”
His speech discussed legalized euthanasia, threats to religious freedom, the persecution of Middle Eastern Christians and the 2015 racial murders at a black church in South Carolina and new racial violence in the U.S. this year.
Anderson added that about 8 in 10 Americans would significantly restrict abortion, while almost 6 in 10 Canadians would support substantial restrictions.
A significant majority of Americans consider abortion morally wrong and do not want taxpayer funding of abortion, he said.
Catholic ping!
Not so easy when NYC wass overridden with criminals and you have fiance, aunts and nieces working and going out there.
Rudy was pro choice, I voted for him.
It’s a CRUEL choice to have to make, but another pro choice candidate would have won AND maybe 5000 people would have been murdered on top of that, possibly one of my kin.
Careful, anti-Trump posts are attracting zots and account bans these days.
About time SOMEBODY in the Catholic faith decided to be a little bit less “catholic” in their political drive to get Mexican voters (er, parishioners) in the pews for democrat politicians.
In the White Hosue, the state house, and in the archbishops’ house.
When will the Catholic bishops speak up?
Whenever one of them asks me why I'm voting for a Republican candidate I always say the same thing (speaking of the Democrat) "I'm not voting for that baby-killing SOB". That always brings any political discussion to an abrupt halt.
History of the Knights of Columbus
I like many others have strong demo friends, 1 a former mayor of my city, they NEVER have a response to my anti-abortion statements...they don’t seem to realize that their preferred candidates are the CAUSE of the evil.
Carl Anderson. His own voting record is poor. He often fails to show up at his polling place to vote. His home town near New Haven CT.
This is public record.
Knights of Columbus
Never voting for Hil
Babies are butchered
On her hands it will spill
Some try to tell me
Donald Trump ain’t my sort
Then I just point them
Towards the Supreme Court
And I’m voting
Yes, I’m voting
Oh, how I’m voting
Oh, how I’m voting
Thanks terycarl,Standing up for the poorest of the poor the Unborn.
Does it mention in the public record whether he cast an absentee ballot?
doesn’t cast an absentee ballot.
not a big surprise.
Most of the clergy and employees of the Diocese have poor records too. Including people who are vocal about issues.
Anderson should vote as should we all. Since 1964, I have failed to vote only once (in a 2000 primary) when I had left Connecticut and arrived in Illinois too late to register. You are certainly correct that Anderson should take the trouble to vote pro-life when he urges others to do so.
Anderson worked on staff for Jesse Helms and on staff at the White House for Ronaldus Maximus. That is also the public record.
There are several million Knights. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. The Knights are also (informally) a group that was still largely Democrat in my distant youth and is now several decades into a transformation to an (informally) Republican group. The reasons? Abortion, acceptance of and enthusiasm for sexual perversity by the modern demonrats, the failure of the demonrats to maintain a military second to none and a manly, muscular foreign policy to go with it.
Anderson's predecessor was Virgil Dechant who served nearly thirty years and had been a GOP State Central Committee member in Kansas. Those two and the legendary Luke Hart of Missouri (ca. 1950-1964) were the only Republicans to EVER be Supreme Knight. I knew Dechant and a finer man never lived. It was he who performed the very necessary demonratectomy in leadership driving out a leftist demonrat Supreme Knight Dr. John Griffin, a McGovernite former gummint skewel superintendent from Massachusetts.
BTW, I did not think Anderson had it in him. I won't criticize him for his virtues.
I need some arguments please.
What is the argument against choice?
What is the argument against ‘I don’t want to government to control my life.’?
thanks,
The answer is “you don’t have the right to kill babies”.
Begin HERE.
What is the argument against ‘I don’t want to government to control my life.’?
Lol ... the government already controls our lives, through taxation and imposed Obamacare, not to mention Social Security & Medicare. The problem is exacerbated by democrats who want more control over our lives through a centralized government.
Thanks. I got the second one wrong. It should have said ‘body’
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