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I’m not going to pretend to have read through all 12 pages of this thread. So, forgive me if this has been stated elsewhere. For those who are considering supporting a candidate (Sanders, Clinton, frankly Trump) who support abortion, I’d love for you to respond to the following thought experiment.
Part of the reason many are comfortable supporting candidates who support abortion is because we are distant from it. What I mean by that is, we don’t see it everyday. We know it happens, we might even acknowledge that it’s bad. Heck, we might even march on Washington, demanding that it stop. But, we don’t transfer that over to the voting booth because at the end of the day, we just sort of throw our hands up in the air, and say, “Well, I guess that’s just the way it is. We can’t fix it. I’ll just ignore it.”
So, here’s the thought experiment. Imagine if a candidate, Sanders in the case of this thread, were not merely in favor of abortion. Imagine if he/she were in favor of the legal protection of killing ALL children, under the age of two years. After all, they too can be a burden for their parents. They cost money. They make you get up in the middle of the night. They don’t really DO anything, other than eat, sleep, and get their diapers changed. They are completely helpless aside from their parents. So, this candidate says, it stands to reason that it should be a parent’s choice to kill their child up to the age of two years old.
Would you support such a candidate? What if you agreed with him on every other issue? What if you were right in lockstep with him on health care? Immigration? Capital punishment? Taxes? Education? Defense spending? Security? How to deal with ISIS? What if you checked off every single box with this candidate. Would you overlook his stance that we should be legally allowed to kill children up to two years old? If yes, may God have mercy on your soul. Because that’s simply barbaric. It’s my sincere hope that all of us can recognize that taking such a stance should be an automatic disqualifier. Being right on every issue under the sun should not be enough to justify voting for a monster who thinks it should be legal to kill two year old children.
What then, I ask you, is the difference between this hypothetical candidate, and someone who supports abortion? I would suggest to you that there is no difference. Both practices are barbaric, and unfitting for a civil society. If someone cannot pledge to defend unborn life, then that candidate is unfit to receive the vote of a faithful Catholic. Period. End of story. I don’t care what else he or she believes. This issue is so grave, such a gross violation of human rights, that to be on the wrong side of it is to render oneself unqualified for public office.
May God have mercy on our souls for continuing to put these people in power, rationalizing it away for any number of reasons. I’ll be quite clear on this…no candidate, Republican, Democrat or otherwise, who supports abortion will EVER receive my vote. None.
Part of the reason many are comfortable supporting candidates who support abortion is because we are distant from it. What I mean by that is, we don’t see it everyday. We know it happens, we might even acknowledge that it’s bad. Heck, we might even march on Washington, demanding that it stop. But, we don’t transfer that over to the voting booth because at the end of the day, we just sort of throw our hands up in the air, and say, “Well, I guess that’s just the way it is. We can’t fix it. I’ll just ignore it.”
So, here’s the thought experiment. Imagine if a candidate, Sanders in the case of this thread, were not merely in favor of abortion. Imagine if he/she were in favor of the legal protection of killing ALL children, under the age of two years. After all, they too can be a burden for their parents. They cost money. They make you get up in the middle of the night. They don’t really DO anything, other than eat, sleep, and get their diapers changed. They are completely helpless aside from their parents. So, this candidate says, it stands to reason that it should be a parent’s choice to kill their child up to the age of two years old.
Would you support such a candidate? What if you agreed with him on every other issue? What if you were right in lockstep with him on health care? Immigration? Capital punishment? Taxes? Education? Defense spending? Security? How to deal with ISIS? What if you checked off every single box with this candidate. Would you overlook his stance that we should be legally allowed to kill children up to two years old? If yes, may God have mercy on your soul. Because that’s simply barbaric. It’s my sincere hope that all of us can recognize that taking such a stance should be an automatic disqualifier. Being right on every issue under the sun should not be enough to justify voting for a monster who thinks it should be legal to kill two year old children.
What then, I ask you, is the difference between this hypothetical candidate, and someone who supports abortion? I would suggest to you that there is no difference. Both practices are barbaric, and unfitting for a civil society. If someone cannot pledge to defend unborn life, then that candidate is unfit to receive the vote of a faithful Catholic. Period. End of story. I don’t care what else he or she believes. This issue is so grave, such a gross violation of human rights, that to be on the wrong side of it is to render oneself unqualified for public office.
May God have mercy on our souls for continuing to put these people in power, rationalizing it away for any number of reasons. I’ll be quite clear on this…no candidate, Republican, Democrat or otherwise, who supports abortion will EVER receive my vote. None.
