Catholics Debate Obama Vote

townhall.com ^ | June 06, 2008 | Kathryn Jean Lopez

[kellynla]

ping

[glorgau]

... who went from being a Mitt Romney adviser to an Obama supporter.

Which shows that he is well versed in political expediency.

[DarthVader]

Can a Catholic be for Barack Obama?

No, nor can any other true Christian.

[max americana]

I thought B.O. was the “messiah” (cough)?

Now where are those pesky nails...

[Kanzan]

Kansas’ governor, Sebilius, is supposedly in charge of Catholic outreach for Obama and wants more than anything to be chosen as VP. However, she’s been enjoined from taking communion because she is, first and foremost, a pro-abort politician. And she was just caught trying to stiff the Kansas taxpayers with the bill for a party she threw for her biggest benefactor and at-birth abortionist, George Tiller and some of his abortionist friends.

[Past Your Eyes]

"Can a Catholic be for Barack Obama?"

Sure. Same as the Jews voted for Keith Ellison.

[socialismisinsidious]

I was asked, in all seriousness, if Catholics can even vote. After all, war is bad. The death penalty is bad. Abortion is bad.

How insulting. This question was asked by a Clueless, whose goal was to insult and who has no idea what it means to be a Catholic, knows nothing of the Catholic Church and doesn't really want to know.

Worth repeating:
Catholics need to know what their Church teaches. Know your candidate. Know abortion isn't just any issue.

[Arrowhead1952]

Can a Catholic be for Barack Obama?

No, nor can any other true Christian.

I used to have a quote by our pastor as my tagline some time ago. It was one of those rare occassions where he takes off his clerical collar - when the discussion is political.

"I don't know how any Christian can go to Church on Sunday and vote for a democrat on Tuesday."

[littlehouse36]

Can a Catholic be for Barack Obama?

 

No.  The Catholic Church has denounced liberation theology, socialism, and is passionately pro-life.  (Nor does the Church endorse unrestrained Capitalism, but neither does America.)

 

The Vatican has renewed its commitment to the war on terror and has condemned climate alarmists.   The Church has long aknowledged freedom as the safekeeper of the natural law and of human rights. 

 

A Catholic can vote for a Democrat but not for the radical Barack Obama.  Obama is a finger in the face of the See of Peter.

 

 

 

[doug from upland]

We stopped Saddam Hussein’s reign of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of 1.3 million innocents. We don’t target innocents and go out of our way to protect them. The enemy slaughters innocents. This Catholic is behind a war whose purpose is to stop evil.

Barack Obama would not even vote yes to protect an aborted baby who was alive when ripped from the womb. How can any Catholic support that?

[Doctor Don]

I say Amen to your pastor!

[DarthVader]

Your pastor is wise.

[Sherman Logan]

It's the kind of reason we will be able to explain, with a clean heart, to the victims of abortion when we meet them face to face in the next life -- which we most certainly will.

No offense intended, but is this really Catholic doctrine?

Every fertilized egg, natural miscarriage and induced abortion is an immortal soul that presumably goes to heaven, since it has had no chance to sin? That will significantly increase the population.

[kellynla]

“but is this really Catholic doctrine?”

is what Catholic docrine?

[Cuchulain]

The writer must not be familiar with the “Just War Doctrine” of the Catholic Church.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Can a Catholic be for Barack Obama?

The question should be how could an American vote for Obama.
Should not any person that wants to be the President of the United States at least believe in their core that America is the greatest Nation on the planet and its people are the best?
I know it is not a written requirement in the Constitution but it is one of those things that our founders could never have believed needed addressed.

[OpusatFR]

Here’s my debate: NO.

It isn’t just Obambi’s disregard for life, it is his Marxian worldview and his choice of friends.

[ishabibble]

The answer is an emphatic NO.

[boycott]

-— Can a Catholic be for Barack Obama? -—

Not one that’s got an ounce of morals.