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To: MegaSilver
"House Democrats are preparing a “Catholic Voting Scorecard” in an effort to show that Catholic Democratic lawmakers have adhered more closely to the position of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy on key issues than their Catholic Republican counterparts."

This concept is such a joke! Utterly and completely laughable. But of course, the democrats will successfully spin it. They always do.

16 posted on 04/13/2004 5:28:07 PM PDT by TOUGH STOUGH (A vote for George W. Bush IS a vote for principle!)
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To: TOUGH STOUGH
Utterly and completely laughable. But of course, the democrats will successfully spin it.

No, it's not a joke, and the Democrats don't need to spin it. The reality is that pro-abortion Democrat politicians are much closer to the positions of the American bishops than Republicans are. The bishops have succeeded in making all issues equally trivial by raising welfare support to the same moral level as abortion. It is the bishops who have created this situation, not the politicians.

Just to take one example, at a Catholic high school you're a lot more likely to see "Dead Man Walking" than "Silent Scream." In their hearts they care a lot more about the death penalty than they do about abortion. And after all, when pope John Paul II visited St. Louis and had his "youth convention" at the sports arena, he talked about the death penalty, not about abortion.

24 posted on 04/13/2004 6:46:56 PM PDT by Maximilian
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