So what’s the point in voting for a declared pro-life candidate if they do not intend to try to get abortion abolished. All a candidates issues should be taken into consideration. Did you not think that maybe the so-called pro-life candidates are simply saying they are pro-life to get votes and like other Republicans in the past have done absolutely nothing to get the abortion laws changed because it was never their intention.
In the case of McCain, what did he say during his campaign about trying to change the abortion laws. Absolutely nothing. For me someone who simply claims to be pro-life to get votes but with no intention of doing anything about it is only marginally worse than someone who is pro-abortion. Therefore I contend that ALL a candidates policies should be taken into account before voting.
Although McCain didn’t come out and state he was 100% pro life, he did vote for the ban on partial birth abortion while bo DID NOT, 3 or 4 times, in fact. Once wasn’t enough for this amoral man. McCain DID say he believed life began at conception. bo, doesn’t know, in spite of his “elite” education. Could it be he wanted to make sure he had all those votes from the abortion field and the fence sitters of the Catholic Church. Naaaah! He wasn’t playing for votes at all.
bo gave his promise to PP that he would sign the bill for FOCA. This will probably be partitioned into several other passable bills. bo has already rescinded the Mexico City policy and our federal taxes are now funding international abortions. WHAT A LEGACY!!.
My vote went to the man, who although did not promise to overturn Roe vs. Wade, did give we pro life (from conception to death) people the hope we would have pro life judges filling in the vacancies that are coming up in the Supreme Court in the future.bo has promised he would see to it ONLY PRO ABORTION judges are placed. My vote went to the man who DIDN’T promise he would see to it that unborn babies can be aborted at will by their mothers.
As far as “thinking” Catholics should not be one issue voters, let’s interpret Pope Benedict’s statement to read ( from my #22 post of this thread). “Pope Benedict XVI, in one of his statements, said one could vote for a pro abortion candidate if there was a proportionate issue that could justify ignoring the intrinsic evils of abortion, euthanasia, cloning, embryonic stem cell research and homosexual marriage”. This is paraphrased by me, but after looking at all the issues surrounding this past election, reading the statements of several Bishops, such as Chaput, Finn, Hermann, Martino, Rigali and Archbishop Burke, reading the encyclicals Evangelium Vitae and Veritatis Splendor of Pope John Paul II, this is the only conclusion I could logically come to. There were NO proportionate issues on an equal standing with that of abortion and the other intrinsic evils on the docket in this election.
If you have doubts about this, read the statements of the above clergy by going to their websites. You will see they clarified the USCCB Voting directions, Faithful Citizenship, which was a muddled up mess, but led many catholics to believe they could ignore the intrinsic evils that were being supported by bo and his party and vote “their conscience” while not having the slightest idea what a well formed conscience is.
Unfortunately, I think many Catholics who voted for bo read what they wanted to read, which was the USCCB, Faithful Citizenship, which was confusing beyond all get out, said, “Hey, I was thinking of voting for bo, and this proves I can.” They made a very serious moral error.
