Can a Catholic be Democrat?

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Can’t read the full story because I don’t have a subscription to WSJ. Thanks for sharing with us though 🙂
 
It’s not about you, it is about an opposition to the party of death that promotes homosexuality, trans gender madness and the murder of our most defenseless neighbors in the womb.
 
I’m pretty sure that has less to do with them being Catholic and probably more to do with the region you live in. I know a ton more Conservative Catholic peeps here in Michigan than liberal. Only the SE corner of the state is more liberal (Detroit, Ann Arbor, and etc) the rest of my state is more conservative leaning. I mean there are some pockets in the other parts of the state that go blue, but the majority of the rest of the state goes red.

You need to really search your conscience but do so in a way that is in line with Catholic Teaching. Others have gave some good resources so I won’t repost those. Follow the USCCB guidelines.

For me personally I am staunchly Pro-Life, from conception to old age. While I am a Constitutional Conservative, I do not identify with any political party. I vote for which ever candidate is closest to my personal ideals for our country, more often that not they happen to have an R behind their name, but not always. I have even voted for a couple of Liberation candidates in the past and I would vote for a Democrat Candidateif they were inline with what I believe. I am a big fan of JFK, he is up their with Regan and Lincoln as some of my favorite past POTUS.

While there are plenty of things I don’t like about Pres Trump, there is a lot more good he has done for our country than the negatives. So I will vote again for him. However, you have to figure out for yourself who you will vote for. I wish you the best of luck my friend. 🙂

By the way Go Red Wings!! :crazy_face:😀😉
 
whatistrue said:
Just don’t try to make a blanket pronouncement that everyone else has to do as you do. Not your job and not your business.
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The original poster asked people’s view on the matter. Hence views are being offered.
 
Of course you can vote for whichever candidates check your political boxes. I vote for the candidate who will do the most to help the poor, and who will support workers to organize to bargain for better wages, and that is usually the Democrat. As long as the candidate is not pro-abortion. Most Republicans use the abortion issue as a political wedge to make people one-issue voters and don’t really care about abortion.
 
upant said:
of course not, the Dems only have issues with certain religions. The Dems have already targeted the nuns for contraception, they don’t need head coverings.
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You know, that is really inaccurate. It is the Democrats who have the most diverse party in Congress.

Did you know that conservative Republicans blocked any Catholic priest from being chaplain of the House until about 2000? That’s a fact.
 
Nepperhan said:
You know, that is really inaccurate. It is the Democrats who have the most diverse party in Congress.

Did you know that conservative Republicans blocked any Catholic priest from being chaplain of the House until about 2000? That’s a fact.
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If that’s true (and having grown up in the Ozarks, I’m sure the “Dixiecrats” had plenty of opposition) at least they didn’t insist that Catholic chaplains “change their religion” like Hillary Clinton insisted that we do in order to accommodate abortion, or threaten them with ruinous fines like Obama did to the Little Sisters and other religious orders if they didn’t provide abortifacients to their employees and themselves.

I’m sure to get “Sea Lioned” about that as usual, but it’s true.
 
Ridgerunner said:
if they didn’t provide abortifacients to their employees and themselves.
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No one was asking them to sit there and hand out pills. As employers the plans were expected to include certain coverage, no one said they had to use it. Now I get the objection and I agree with the exemptions and in my opinion they should have been in place from the beginning, but no one was being asked to “provide abortifacients” any more than they were being asked to “provide” open heart surgery.
 
Of course a Catholic be a Democrat

The question is can a Democrat be pro Life?
 
Yes its not option in 2020. In fact, not only must you be pro abortion but you must be for forcing pro life Catholics to fund abortion. Biden supported Hyde Amendment (bans public funding of abortion) and was ruthlessly attacked until he caved.

www.nytimes.com

Joe Biden Denounces Hyde Amendment, Reversing His Position (Published 2019)

Mr. Biden had been one of only a few Democratic politicians who supported the amendment, which bans most federal funding for abortion.
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You don’t have to pull the trigger to participate in a murder. If you’re the one who knowingly brought the bullets to the killer, you’re just as guilty as the shooter.

The Obama administration could have given the Sisters and other religious organizations an exemption, but they specifically issued a regulation forcing them to participate in a serious moral wrong.
 
There was a religious exemption, it didn’t cover them because they don’t exclusively hire Catholics, ergo not everyone working there would necessarily hold the same ideological views. As I said I’m glad it was expanded.

And you’re right, but likewise there’s a point where you’re on longer culpable. Your analogy to me is closer to what I originally said, asking them to hand out the actual pills, ie ‘bring the bullets’. In this case they were being asked to pay an insurance premium which went into a risk pool that was used to pay claims made by medical provides at the request of patients. So it’s more like if I pay you a salary because you work for me and you use the money to buy bullets and shoot someone.
 
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