Joe Biden Makes It Easier for Catholics to Oppose Pro-Abortion Barack Obama

Life News ^ | 8/23/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life Catholic group says it will be easier for Catholic voters to reject Barack Obama as president now that he has strong abortion advocate Joe Biden on board. Although some pundits say Biden is an Irish Catholic who will help Obama in states like Pennsylvania, Brian Burch says he will turn off voters.

Burch, the head of the pro-life organization Fidelis, tells LifeNews.com that Biden's pro-abortion views, like Obama's, pose a major challenge for American Catholics.

Fidelis warned late last month that a pro-abortion Catholic choice as a vice presidential candidate would offend many Catholics who have struggled with the scandal of prominent pro-abortion Catholic politicians like Senator Biden.

“Barack Obama has re-opened a wound among American Catholics by picking a pro-abortion Catholic politician," Burch said.

"The American bishops have made clear that Catholic political leaders must defend the dignity of every human person, including the unborn. Sadly, Joe Biden’s tenure in the United States Senate has been marked by steadfast support for legal abortion," he added.

Burch pointed to history to support his contention.

In 2004, John Kerry’s support for abortion sparked a nationwide controversy over whether Catholics who support legal abortion can receive communion. The debate was re-activated in 2007 when several bishops criticized Rudy Giuliani, also a pro-abortion Catholic.

“Now everywhere Biden campaigns, we'll have this question of whether a pro-abortion Catholic can receive communion," he told LifeNews.com.

"Senator Biden is an unrepentant supporter of abortion in direct opposition to the Church he claims as his own. Selecting a pro-abortion Catholic is a slap in the face to Catholic voters,” he said.

Biden's own bishop, Bishop Michael Saltarelli of Wilmington, Delaware, has said that the issues pertaining to the sanctity of human life are the "great civil rights issues of this generation.”

Bishop Saltarelli denounced the notion that politicians like Biden can 'personally oppose' abortion, but refuse to pass laws protecting the unborn.

"No one today would accept this statement from any public servant: 'I am personally opposed to human slavery and racism but will not impose my personal conviction in the legislative arena.' Likewise, none of us should accept this statement from any public servant: 'I am personally opposed to abortion but will not impose my personal conviction in the legislative arena,'” said Bishop Saltarelli.

In fact, Bishop Saltarelli made clear that pro-abortion Catholic politicians should refrain from receiving the Eucharist.

"The promotion of abortion by any Catholic is a grave and serious matter. Objectively, according to the constant teaching of the Scriptures and the Church, it would be more spiritually beneficial for such a person to refrain from receiving the Body and Blood of Christ. I ask Catholics in this position to have the integrity to respect the Eucharist, Catholic teaching and the Catholic faithful," he said.

"Burch concluded: “The American bishops have instructed Catholic voters to consider many issues, but have characterized the defense of human life as ‘foundational’ and have explained that the issue has a special claim on the conscience of the Catholic voter."

"This means that a political candidate like Biden, because of his strong support for abortion rights, forfeits any claim for support despite his views on other issues like health care and the economy.”

[MIchaelTArchangel]

How does the formerly Catholic, pro-abortion apostate Joseph McClintock Biden make it easier for me to vote for the pro-infanticide Barack Hussein Peter Singer Obama? I must have missed the subtleness of the argument that Biden is the lesser of the two evils? But way back in third grade catechism class I learned that the lesser of two evils is still EVIL.

[Salvation]

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Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE)	Catholic politician who votes for abortion in contradiction to Church teachings. One of American Life League's "Deadly Dozen."

[Salvation]

So is Biden. CINO all the way!

[Aliska]

I don't know if there are any pro-life Catholic politicians. That is one reason I wouldn't have gone with Giuliani.

Now Sibelius' bishop took a firmer stand with her. I don't know who Biden's bishop is, McCormick?

Anyway, they'll just campaign in some other church when they are in the St. Louis diocese or avoid it altogether like Kerry did.

I wish the bishops would present a firm, united front. Unless they actually instruct eucharistic ministers to refuse them communion, it's all just rhetoric. The Catholic pols are going to ignore it as usual and get away with it as usual.

[wagglebee]

You didn’t get Joe Biden’s text this morning at 3:12AM saying he’s now Methodist?

LMAO!

I don't even know how to send or receive a text message.

[Salvation]

My list keeps growing!

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[Salvation]

Any Catholic who supports abortion by voting for an abortion candidate, basically excommunicates themselves. And, yes, Biden HAS excommunicated himself and will not be receiving Communion.

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[loveliberty2]

According to America's Founders, life, and the liberty to enjoy it, are unalienable. The word, "unalienable," implies the great truth of Thomas Jefferson's summation that, "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

What many citizens today fail to reason through is that the so-called "right to choose," is an invented euphemism of recent decades designed to mask the ugly act of "destroying" the life and liberty of the child in the womb. By that euphemism, an artificial right was bestowed by unelected justices of the Supreme Court of the United States on only one class of citizens (women) to destroy the Creator-endowed, therefore "unalienable" life and liberty of an as-yet-unborn citizen.

This question is the most important one to be considered in the 2008 election of a President.

Consider the logic utilized by those who say they personally oppose taking the life of the child in the womb, but believes in the trite and tired old phrase of "a woman's right to choose."

Why could a 75-year-old daughter not use the same reasoning to apply to a "right to choose" to get rid of an elderly mother whose care is threatening her own health? (And don't say it is not realistic to claim the health risk that many face!)

Or, why should the nation's law not provide that same "right to choose" to both men and women who consider another individual to be a threat to their personal health or wellbeing, an inconvenience to their lifestyle, or merely a burden they cannot take care of?

Clearly, America's laws against the taking of life do not allow for a citizen's "right to choose" murder as an optional way of solving a personal dilemma, no matter how perplexing or burdensome.

Unmask the faulty logic of the fence sitters, and let them articulate what is their real reason for favoring the taking of a life in the womb! Is it not possibly because they do not see children in the womb as beings "endowed by their Creator with the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?

Whichever candidate who's most likely to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand this basic principle underlying our liberty and the American Constitution is the only logical choice to lead this nation, in this voter's humble opinion!

[Salvation]

[Salvation]

Yes, McCain, Brownback, Santorum, Palin, and I am probably missing some.

[wagglebee]

How does the formerly Catholic, pro-abortion apostate Joseph McClintock Biden make it easier for me to vote for the pro-infanticide Barack Hussein Peter Singer Obama?

I think you misread the headline, Biden will make it easier to OPPOSE Obama.

[Aliska]

McCain isn’t Catholic, is he? If so, where have I been? I didn’t know the other 3 were Catholic either, just recently read good things about Palin. Good to know there are some.

[wagglebee]

John McCain is an Episcopalian. Sarah Palin is Protestant, but I’m not sure what denomination. Bobby Jindal is a Catholic (he converted from Hinduism) and has been touted as a possible running mate, but not as prominently as Palin and Eric Cantor (Cantor is a Jew, but he is extremely well liked in a very conservative district that is largely Evangelical Christian and devout Catholic). Charlie Crist (Methodist) has been mentioned prominently, but many (myself included) hold him partly responsible for Terri Schiavo’s murder.

[redgirlinabluestate]

Looks like this might be a big issue for Biden and Catholic voters. Mitt would be a great contrast to Biden as the VP pick since he was endorsed by so many prominent pro-life Catholics, including Mary Ann Glendon, Tom Monaghan and Peter Flaherty, to name a few.

[Salvation]

I goofed. I thought you just said and pro-life politicians.

[Salvation]

Mitt will not appeal to the conservatives. Don’t you remember the mess with Mass. healthcare. It is now a million in the red and the state has capped coverage.

We don’t need a socialist for a vice-presidential in the GOP.

PS. If you check further......you will see that Romney flip flops to get elected. LOL!

[Aliska]

Thanks. So it doesn't appear there are any Catholic pro-life pols, at least at gubernatorial and above.

And I still don't know what to do about McCain's support of ESCR, know I shouldn't be a one-issue voter, know it isn't going to likely matter, but still - it's a pretty big issue. Still one could be fooled by a supposed pro-life candidate who uses it to deceive masses, could be possible, not sayin McCain is doing that, just saying.

[freespirited]

Am relieved to hear it would not be an issue.

No doubt Sarah Palin would electrify the ticket. One thing no one mentions with her is that her husband works in the oil fields. Instead of another lawyer spouse we’d actually have a blue collar person. Might be a minus to the yuppie fraction, but the blue collar population is a lot larger so I see it as a big plus.

I would love to have a no-lawyer ticket. Obama, Michelle, and Joe are all lawyers.

[Aliska]

Not to worry. I didn’t read the article very well myself, see Saltiereli (sp?) is Biden’s home bishop and spoken firmly but evidently not to the point of denying communion unlike Sibelius’ bishop and Burke. Don’t know where Chaput stands on that. Also Biden, if he attends mass regularly, probably attends in Washington, another diocese.

[Aliska]

"In fact, Bishop Saltarelli made clear that pro-abortion Catholic politicians should refrain from receiving the Eucharist."

Pretty straightforward that.