A Catholic Political Party?

[runningdude]

Eh, but those handful of non-negotiables can be hard to maintain, and since these non-negotiables will be more important to a Catholic than any discretionary policymaking decision, I can see a Catholic party being plausible. There have been Catholic parties in places other than Italy (Belgium comes to mind).

I am a right-wing person. I like low taxes and limited government. If I had to choose between a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage right-wing fiscal conservative and a pro-life, pro-family big time spender, I would in spite of myself choose the 2nd person. On all of the “discretionary” policies a Catholic party would more than likely end up moderate or with a moderate right-tilt, but it would provide a haven where you can guarantee legislatures that will fight on the non-negotiable areas that are the building blocks to a society.

A Catholic political party would face two major issues; outlawing abortion, and reforming the wages, welfare, and healthcare system to support woman and families raise an additional 1 million children. Both are moral imperatives, but only the first has a clear answer. The second one has millions of potential answers, and there is no “Catholic” answer as to how to do it, and it would be misleading to suggest there were.

Further, there are ugly intermediate steps, such as improving licensing and hygienics at abortion clinics (ignored by many clinics to the point that the added expense can such them down). You would have a “Catholic” party issuing licenses to operate abortion mills. While the end goal is noble, the process is scandalous*. Best to leave this to the Republicans, whose party platform is technically Prolife, and who have already begun such business.

I would be in favor of forming perhaps a Progressive Party that is Prolife to counter balance the Republicans on the discretionary issues (while allying on the Prolife and other issues), but I think that branding it a “Catholic” party is too polarizing and open to media backlash. Other Christians are vigorously Prolife too, as are many Muslims and Jews, and even many Atheists. The political reality is that the ugly compromises must be made.

*(For a Catholic Party to engage in; as the end goal is to save children, just about any means is morally sound to further this goal).

 

[Matilda_Bennett]

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