A Problem with my Party

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Currently I am a member of a Political Party who now only recently supports both Same Sex Marriage and Abortion (but only in limited circumstances). This Party has always been traditionally the one that the Catholic population here voted for due to a whole mess of reasons but now they campaign heavily for SSM and supported the yes vote in the recent SSM Referendum in Ireland. This has shocked me and upset me that they could have done this.

In saying that I believe in the Party’s message and agree with most of what it says but its just these two massive issues. I would like to stay in it but as a Catholic is it acceptable if i stayed in it as long as i don’t help them on these two issues. I’m asking this because people i know who are devout Catholics aren’t even voting for them anymore and they voted for them their entire lives and think no Catholic should vote or be apart of it as well which concerns whether i should be apart of it or not.
 
I would suggest you stop focusing on a “party” to support and start focusing on candidates who uphold and share your values. Those candidates may be found in any party.

You cannot ignore the stated platform of that party. You cannot support the party and not also support what they stand for and advocate for. You cannot compartmentalize.

In the case when no candidate or party upholds Catholic values, you may choose to vote for the one you believe will do the least damage.

If you do remain active in a party, then be ACTIVE-- an active voice, organizing and actively harassing them until they move away from these immoral stances.
 
I think you know the answer to your question. Just because you (and other Catholics) have always supported this party before doesn’t mean that you should still support it now that it’s embraced SSM and abortion. If it’s possible to have no party, that would be my recommendation. It’s too easy to blindly support your party and to ignore the flaws. It’s much easier to see the flaws in any party if you affiliate yourself with none of them. Where I live, it’s possible to register to vote as a non-partisan, and I’ve found it’s really opened my eyes.
 
Vote and move on to what the church is supposed to be, an alternative society. Political parties seek power and aligning with them destroys our prophetic voice. Presidential elections won’t change the world won’t change the state of affairs, as much as people might like to think it will.
 
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Vote and move on to what the church is supposed to be, an alternative society. Political parties seek power and aligning with them destroys our prophetic voice. Presidential elections won’t change the world won’t change the state of affairs, as much as people might like to think it will.
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I have to disagree. A Presidential election is very important. In the U.S., President Obama has done a tremendous amount of damage. He has set the tone on race relations, class relations, same sex marriage, how our police are treated, whether we enforce immigration laws or do anything at all about immigration, etc. Perhaps it wouldn’t be such a problem if we didn’t have such a spineless, do-nothing Congress and a Supreme Court that seems to have the same agenda as Obama does, but that is the case and his Presidency has done more damage to this nation than any I’ve seen in my lifetime. It is absolutely incumbent on Christians to vote for the candidate that most closely matches our Christian values whether it’s for President or for the School Board.
 
The exact reason I have just quit voting…and I’ve found total peace in that position.
 
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