Posted on 09/17/2008 4:15:49 PM PDT by tcg
Could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there is a choice of another candidate who does not support abortion or any other intrinsically evil policy? Could a voter’s preference for the candidate’s positions on the pursuit of peace, economic policies benefiting the poor, support for universal health care, a more just immigration policy, etc. overcome a candidate’s support for legalized abortion? In such a case, the Catholic voter must ask and answer the question: What could possibly be a proportionate reason for the more than 45 million children killed by abortion in the past 35 years? Personally, we cannot conceive of such a proportionate reason.
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"could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there is a choice of another candidate who does not support abortion or any other intrinsically evil policy?"
There you go...
Please elaborate a bit on your point. Other than abortion, are there no other “intrinsically evil policies”?
While Catholic leaders are right to raise the issue of abortion with Catholics, it severely irritates when they cannot leave it at that.
That is, while they *could* identify other problems, they screw up horribly in suggesting *solutions* to those problems. That is, the lack of health care for everyone is a problem, but proposing “universal health care”, aka socialized medicine, is an AWFUL solution.
It is *not* a Catholic, or even a Christian concept, to support socialism in any form. Especially now that we know socialism doesn’t cure problems, it makes them much, much worse.
So in effect they are saying, “Hunger is bad. All Catholics should solve hunger by denying food to the hungry.”
See how this is different from condemning abortion? The opposite of abortion is life. No alternative there, so it is good and noble for Catholic leaders to be clear about not supporting politicians that support abortion.
But stop adding those other problems to the mix, or at least if they do, they should advocate solutions that work, not suggest the use of a failed, atheistic philosophy.
>It is *not* a Catholic, or even a Christian concept, to support socialism in any form. Especially now that we know socialism doesn’t cure problems, it makes them much, much worse.<
So wh is the Church advising catholics to vote for?
Take heart. The churches (not just Catholic, but nearly all churches) are being dragged forward by the church members. Just look how far the church members have forced the church to move in the last 35 years.
In many cases there has been much kicking a screaming by the church and church 'leaders', but the members clearly have the upper hand now.
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