Why Catholic Pro Lifers will vote for Obama (Can you say "Moral Relativism?" Sure.)

America: The National Catholic Weekly ^ | September 28, 2008 | Sidney Callahan

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why am I as a 'mass going' staunchly pro life Catholic, voting for Obama? Of course I disagree with his views on Roe vs Wade, but I think that his policies and programs more comprehensively follow Catholic social teaching than McCain's--and they even result in fewer abortions.

There's a lot of evidence that providing aid and support for women, children and the poor, lowers the number of abortions. Pro lifers can choose to see present results rather than repeating exhortations for the future.

After all, to roll back and change laws in a democracy, the legislators, the courts and the majority of voters have to be convinced, and this process of moral reorientation on abortion can be a slow process. Think of the arguments you have with your friends and family.

In the interim, when immediate overthrow of a flawed law is impossible it is morally permissible, as John Paul II expresses it, to recognize "the art of the possible" and try to "limit the harm done by such a law."

Moreover, Catholic pro life advocates for Obama desperately want to limit the grave moral evils and dangers to life arising from pursuing preemptive wars, defending the use of torture, continuing the death penalty, and flouting of Constitutional and international law. As billions are spent on the destructive Iraq war, the needs of the poor, the ill and the schools are neglected, and the whole economic system falters.

Our Bishops have instructed us in the 2008 document "Faithful Citizenship," to inform our consciences and choose prudently. We must seek the common good as well as avoid evils. Bishops carry out their role of teaching and transmitting the tradition when they state Catholic social teaching in its fullness and nuance as they have here. And yes, if others in public life misrepresent Catholic doctrine, it is the Bishops' right and duty to correct them.

Moreover, in this document the Bishops firmly assert that they seek to inform consciences and "do not intend to tell Catholics for whom or against whom to vote." Yet certain Bishops (we know who they are) appear to be doing their best to coerce the conscientious decisions of their people by punitive uses of sacramental power. To deny Catholics the Eucharist because they have voted in a certain way seems to grievously overstep clerical authority as well as distort Catholic teaching on religious liberty.

While I think Obama is far and away the candidate most completely in agreement with Catholic teaching on peace and justice, I would never want to have McCain's Catholic followers be denied communion because of their votes on preemptive war or embryonic stem cell research.

In fact such non pastoral exercises of clerical power involving worship give scandal. This is imitating Jesus? Christ the Lord showed unfailing charity to all, even his enemies. He welcomes all who seek him.

Jesus teaches, heals, inspires and proclaims in one of my favorite scriptural verses, "Look, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut."(Rev. 3:8)

[MHGinTN]

This article is written by the modern day version of Ananias and Saphira ... she is serving satan while pretending to be serving God through the Catholic institution.

Sidney Callahan is offering to Catholics the ancient Stanic bargain ... you can have your hearts desire so long as you sell your soul for it. The only consolation Catholics following her lead through to the gates of Hell have is that this demonspawn will be more tormented because she has led others to serve her chosen god, Satan.

I would ask God to have meercy upon her, but so long as she continues to serve hellish aims I can only ask that God take her out of the way just as His SPirit took Ananias and SAphira out of the way in the infant Church. ... And during her service to evil she is likely receiving the Host at Mass. Shame

[MHGinTN]

And just to nail this woman for what she is, here's a blatant twisting of an issue to fashion a lie she believes is persuasive:

"... I would never want to have McCain's Catholic followers be denied communion because of their votes on preemptive war or embryonic stem cell research." My Catholic friends, ask yourself what Catholic Priest would deny communion to a Christian who opposes the killing for body parts of embryonic age humans? This Sidney Callahan is twisting a Life issue to appear it is wrong to oppose killing human beings at embryo age. This woman is allow Satan to speak thorugh her. Demonic

[DelphiUser]

If evil was freshly painted, Barack Obama would have paint on the front and arms of his suit where he has embraced it.

MHG you know how much I dislike contradicting you, however, I feel I must point out that if you embrace Evil for long enough and do not repent you become Evil.

While I am loathe to pronounce judgment on any man, if Barrack Hussein Obama does not repent end turn from the Evil which he has embraced (and not let go of) he will be found to be Evil by him who is worthy to judge.

I hope sincerely for his sake that he repents of the Evil practice of infanticide which he has embraced.

More importantly, I hope for America's sake that this country born of God's will does not embrace such a man and offer him it's highest office for he may even supersede Clinton in disgracing that office.

[MHGinTN]

That’s not a contradiction, brother. We are in agreement.