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I am a Roman Catholic and I refuse to let the Roman Catholic Church or any church for that matter tell me who to vote for president.

You can cry and whine and declare your right to be a cafeteria Catholic all you want and claim you're being shock-prodded to the polls by a newspaper, but --

the Church's teaching on the matter is clear. There are non-negotiable moral issues by which we must measure political candidates. And we will each have to answer for our votes whether at the confessional or on Judgement Day.

33 posted on 03/07/2007 2:26:37 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose" -- Mitt Romney, April 2002)

You can cry and whine and declare your right to be a cafeteria Catholic all you want and claim you're being shock-prodded to the polls by a newspaper, but -

Why does not withholding your vote from a candidate who is pro-choice make you a 'cafeteria Catholic'? What about politicians who allow for exceptions. That's incompatible with church teaching too, is it not?

There are non-negotiable moral issues by which we must measure political candidates.

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36 posted on 03/07/2007 2:29:58 PM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)

the Church's teaching on the matter is clear. There are non-negotiable moral issues by which we must measure political candidates.

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Yes. Otherwise, how do we define ourselves as Catholics?

145 posted on 03/08/2007 4:49:27 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)