Democratic Ad: Catholic Church More Concerned About Abortion Than Poor

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Democratic Ad: Catholic Church More Concerned About Abortion Than Poor

St. Paul, MN – A campaign postcard the Minnesota Democratic Party sent to voters in the Midwestern state is causing a strong reaction from pro-life advocates. It claims the Catholic Church is more concerned with abortion than helping the poor.

LifeNews.com/state-5604
 
I’m really starting to wonder if democrats are mentally disabled people or people with IQs around 80. The Catholic Church is one of the largest charitable organizations in the world that provides shelter and food for the poor in nearly every country for over 2000 years, sent missionaries to countries that needed clean water, and built many food shelfs and shelter houses, and provided a spiritual refuge for everyone. Do these ignorant people even look at the amount of Catholic charities that exist in St. Paul and Minneapolis alone??Catholic Charities annually helps 35,000 people, regardless of faith, in the Twin Cities area.

youtube.com/watch?v=rSJLMpRxOZo&feature=player_embedded

ccspm.org/

cctwincities.org/
 
I’ve been saying for a while now that I wish it could happen (without anyone loosing Salvation and without detriment to anyone’s soul) - that for one day: every benefit the world has experienced because of the church would be gone. Every hospital, every school, every charitable organization, every artistic and scientific contribution; every food bank, every shelter, every agency and every effect of the Church’s presence past and present be taken away. Then maybe people would realize how much She does for the poor and everyone else.
 
This is a play from the real outcomes that are in process in Central America, where the protestant faiths are growing “more rapidly” than they did after the referendum by Luther. They are causing thousands of Catholics to leave the faith, and join protestant churches, why?
Because for years, and years, the Catholic leaders in South American have focused on the “political” issues for the poor while the protestants have focused on the “spiritual” issues of their souls and relationship with JESUS.
This is the driving force behind the next Synod wherein Pope Benedict XVI is going to call for a new “Evangelization” and direct the religious to get back to souls first and foremost.

The democratic party is simply leveraging what they see happening and going HHHmmmmmmm, maybe that same message will work for us.
 
juliee said:
Democratic Ad: Catholic Church More Concerned About Abortion Than Poor

St. Paul, MN – A campaign postcard the Minnesota Democratic Party sent to voters in the Midwestern state is causing a strong reaction from pro-life advocates. It claims the Catholic Church is more concerned with abortion than helping the poor.

LifeNews.com/state-5604
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the poor are not being murdered, the poor defenseless babies are, far be it from the Church to care about children being murdered for being alive… the poor can fend for themselves.

at the same time it is not right to ignore those who are poor, if, if the church cares more for the unborn i think she is justified
 
While claiming to be directed at the intellect, this sort of campaign is designed to appeal to emotions. They know the “average” voter does not have the facts at hand and that some will simply accept their word for it. Catholics, some Catholics, are too willing to trust without checking to see if what they are being told is accurate. Of course, those who are already anti-Catholic will spread this around as fact, usually because they don’t check the facts either, but also, in some cases, with the full knowledge of what the facts are but with a malicious desire to smear the Church.

God bless,
Ed
 
Reposting from another thread on this same topic:

Let me try to unpack the logic of the ad:

The U.S. bishops have increasingly made abortion the single issue for Catholic voters, abandoning the issues that were so important to Catholic voters in recent decades, such as care for the poor and disadvantaged. Nowadays, Republican candidates who favor policies that strongly favor big business and wealthy taxpayers can expect to receive the Catholic bishops’ support as long as they say that they are pro-life. Ignore the poor, protect the unborn. That’s the stance of today’s Catholic voter. Why not make such single-issue voters a target for the majority, who favor pro-choice policies?

Understand that I think the ad is despicable, but that’s the sense I make of it.
 
I wonder how many atheist pro-abortion charities there are? since they are so concerned about the poor as they state…anyone been able to find any?? any "democrat pro-“choice” food shelfs seen anywhere around??
 
PetersKeys said:
I wonder how many atheist pro-abortion charities there are? since they are so concerned about the poor as they state…anyone been able to find any?? any "democrat pro-“choice” food shelfs seen anywhere around??
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I am sure secular food banks do exist, but don’t make the ridiculous supposition that a food bank would overly list any political affiliations.
 
Apparently the Minnesota Democratic Party (DFL) is willing to sacrifice Catholic support in favor of abortion support. The ad takes a jab at Church intransigence on abortion, yet the Democratic party is nothing of not intransigent in the firmness of its pro-abortion views. Democratic candidates could win Catholic support if they were willing to take a firm and unyielding pro-life stance. But that would put them in opposition to the national Democratic platform.
 
Black_Rose said:
I am sure secular food banks do exist, but don’t make the ridiculous supposition that a food bank would overly list any political affiliations.
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if these abortion supporters claim to care about the poor so much they should open an organization under their name. Yet there are none such organizations… They are hypocrites. Then again what can you expect from pro abortionists…
 
Black_Rose said:
I am sure secular food banks do exist, but don’t make the ridiculous supposition that a food bank would overly list any political affiliations.
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Most food pantries are affiliated with the Salvation Army or a church. Secular charities are usually think tanks or legal entities (ACLU, IMO).
 
PetersKeys said:
I wonder how many atheist pro-abortion charities there are? since they are so concerned about the poor as they state…anyone been able to find any?? any "democrat pro-“choice” food shelfs seen anywhere around??
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They help the poor by aborting their babies so they don’t have extra mouths to feed.

Hey, thats how they’re pushing the Reproductive Health Bill in the Philippines by marketing it as a solution to poverty. The Bill seeks to introduce government funding to make ABCs available to the poor.
 
Interesting that this time around that it is the Democratic party injecting the “abortion topic” into the political debate, and not just in Minnesota either. Have a nice weekend:).

Peace, Graubo
 
Alan55 said:
Reposting from another thread on this same topic:

Let me try to unpack the logic of the ad:

The U.S. bishops have increasingly made abortion the single issue for Catholic voters, abandoning the issues that were so important to Catholic voters in recent decades, such as care for the poor and disadvantaged. Nowadays, Republican candidates who favor policies that strongly favor big business and wealthy taxpayers can expect to receive the Catholic bishops’ support as long as they say that they are pro-life. Ignore the poor, protect the unborn. That’s the stance of today’s Catholic voter. Why not make such single-issue voters a target for the majority, who favor pro-choice policies?

Understand that I think the ad is despicable, but that’s the sense I make of it.
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I have not read that the majority is pro-abortion, just the opposite. I seem to remember a figure of around 65% of the population is anti-abortion.

And “ignore the poor?” What parish or diocese are they looking at? Catholics have never “ignored the poor,” every church has some sort of homeless ministry. Our church fixes a full Thanksgiving meal and brings in the poor and homeless.

I sure like the idea of removing everything Catholic for just one day, but since we know that is not likely to happen, we just have to keep countering these ridiculous statements. In fact, in my diocese, we hear almost nothing about abortion, but LOTS of homilies about caring for the stranger in our midst, and giving our time, talent, and treasure to the Church.
 
PetersKeys said:
I’m really starting to wonder if democrats are mentally disabled people or people with IQs around 80. The Catholic Church is one of the largest charitable organizations in the world that provides shelter and food for the poor in nearly every country for over 2000 years, sent missionaries to countries that needed clean water, and built many food shelfs and shelter houses, and provided a spiritual refuge for everyone. Do these ignorant people even look at the amount of Catholic charities that exist in St. Paul and Minneapolis alone??Catholic Charities annually helps 35,000 people, regardless of faith, in the Twin Cities area.

youtube.com/watch?v=rSJLMpRxOZo&feature=player_embedded

ccspm.org/

cctwincities.org/
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How low can the Democrats go? I think the Bible describes these Left Wingnuts pretty well. “He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (Jo 8, 44).

The devil is a murderer and the father of lies, the liar par excellence, who hates truth, because truth leads to God: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life” (Jo 14, 5)."
 
Has anyone considered the possibility this was sent by opponents of the Democrats? It would not be the first time such a subtrifuge was used to sway voters and it is incredibly stupid from the POV of Democrats.
 
pnewton said:
Has anyone considered the possibility this was sent by opponents of the Democrats? It would not be the first time such a subtrifuge was used to sway voters and it is incredibly stupid from the POV of Democrats.
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idk. I don’t ever doubt how far idiocy and ignorance can go with extreme leftists…And the sad fact is that many liberals will read the message and think its true
 
juliee said:
Democratic Ad: Catholic Church More Concerned About Abortion Than Poor

St. Paul, MN – A campaign postcard the Minnesota Democratic Party sent to voters in the Midwestern state is causing a strong reaction from pro-life advocates. It claims the Catholic Church is more concerned with abortion than helping the poor.

LifeNews.com/state-5604
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Nobody was ever publically denied Holy Communion becasue they voted against an anti-poverty program or refused to help out at a soup kitchen. The headlines seems perfectly accurate.
 
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