Follow up question: What voting issue could possibly outweigh the murder of millions of unborn babies?

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This is a follow up question to the USCCB vague voting guide for Catholics.

I was shocked at how many responses defended “you have to weigh all the issues”, etc.

As the Church teaches, abortion is Murder. Logically it follows that abortion murders millions of unborn babies.

Therefore, it would be similar (though FAR worse) than, say, to rationalize that issues like the economy or illegal immigration could be prioritized in the decision on who to vote for during the Nazi Holocaust!

If all candidates are EQUALLY ProChoice, then obviously the decision isn’t based on that requirement because it can’t be.

How can any Catholic vote for a ProChoice candidate when a ProLife candidate is running?
 
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There is one issue that is more important, and that issue is unilateral nuclear disarmament.
This is the “elephant in the room” that no one wants to talk about. Our nuclear weapons arsenal threatens to destroy the human race; to wipe it off of the face of the earth, and this catastrophe is predicted in scripture. Its time frame is found in a prohibited list of future Popes that was published in 1595.

As evil as abortion is, it will not result in the demise of the human race.
 
jofa said:
This is a follow up question to the USCCB vague voting guide for Catholics.

I was shocked at how many responses defended “you have to weigh all the issues”, etc.

As the Church teaches, abortion is Murder. Logically it follows that abortion murders millions of unborn babies.

Therefore, it would be similar (though FAR worse) than, say, to rationalize that issues like the economy or illegal immigration could be prioritized in the decision on who to vote for during the Nazi Holocaust!

If all candidates are EQUALLY ProChoice, then obviously the decision isn’t based on that requirement because it can’t be.

How can any Catholic vote for a ProChoice candidate when a ProLife candidate is running?
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https://www.patheos.com/blogs/marks...on-is-our-number-one-priority-shell-game.html

There’s a number of things I disagree with in that article so I’m not endorsing it (e.g. even if, as he claims, the Republican Party can be blamed directly for Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, that was 46 and 27 years ago respectively and hardly relevant to the parties in the present day), but you asked, so there you go.

While the issue of political parties wasn’t explicitly brought up, I’d still feel remiss to not point out that the American Solidarity Party (platform available here) is, in abortion and the other issues, much more consistent with Catholic social teaching than the Republicans or Democrats.
 
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Education is more important than the murder of the most innocent?
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I think it is more important because it allows those who are already here to realize their God-given potential. That, for me, is a heavy moral issue. I believe it is more important than the abortion issue. But I don’t really subscribe to the Church’s teachings on that issue.

I was just answering the OP question, as I see it.
 
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Education is more important than the murder of the most innocent?
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I think it is more important because it allows those who are already here to realize their God-given potential. That, for me, is a heavy moral issue I believe it is more important than the abortion issue. But I don’t really subscribe to the Church’s teachings on that issue.

I was just answering the OP question, as I see it.
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But you only allow education for those who make it out of the womb alive.
 
I said I don’t really subscribe to the church’s teaching on that issue. No need to belabor that point. Obviously you disagree. That is fine.
 
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JMMJ said:
I said I don’t really subscribe to the church’s teaching on that issue. No need to belabor that point. Obviously you disagree. That is fine.
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And I’m trying to offer you correction. The abortion issue takes precedence here.
 
No need for corrections. OP was wondering, I am assuming, why some people don’t find the abortion issue to be the defining one for Catholic voters. I put in my two cents worth. That is all.
 
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I said I don’t really subscribe to the church’s teaching on that issue. No need to belabor that point. Obviously you disagree. That is fine.
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That is all good, we are all entitled to our own views. I’d just like to ask why you don’t subscribe to the Church’s teaching on abortion? Are you Catholic?
 
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How can any Catholic vote for a ProChoice candidate when a ProLife candidate is running?
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Come November we’ll see if this is really what motivates people claiming prolife since there is now genuinely unconditionally prolife party in the US. (The ASP). It is a platform that is completely in line with every aspect of Catholic teaching. I don’t want to wish the year away but I’m very curious to be here after the election and see if that is truly what people did.
 
To vote for a 3rd party with zero chance of winning any power in the government is a wasted vote. We need to effect change where we can - and we can cause, with our votes made with prudence, greater and greater restraint on the forces of the culture of death (which has abortion as its cornerstone). We cannot eliminate it, but we can lessen evil - and we are. Abortions are declining in this country, although the culture of death continues to advance wherever it can.
 
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I said I don’t really subscribe to the church’s teaching on that issue.
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There are those who favor legalizing abortions but only for the early term. However, most Democrats, except for Tulsi, favor legalizing the late term or partial birth abortions. In this case, the baby is whole and entire except that the umbilical cord has not yet been cut. I don’t see how i could vote for anyone who is in favor of late term abortions.
The other issue is nuclear weapons, germ warfare and the use of gas and other chemical weapons. If what I read is correct. the Holy Father Pope Francis has said it is immoral to possess nuclear weapons? So I would not vote for someone who is not in favor of doing something about this. In any war involving the hydrogen bomb, you are going to have millions of innocent people dead. These are people who have nothing to do with politics and are only going about minding their own business, while some politician somewhere decides to drop a hydrogen bomb.
 
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