Need advice

[ziapueblo]

I understand that abortion is a terrible thing. I, as a Catholic, am pro-life and support my local pro-life movement, Project Defending Life. I am a pro-life democrat and email my Representatives and Senators in my state about these issues. This is going to be a tuff couple of months because I just don’t feel that the other partys platform is good for the country (war in Iraq, cutting education, taxes and other issues). However, if I am obligated to vote for life, I of course will. How do I deal with the fact I vote for life yet other issues I am concerned about I leave them behind. Thanks,

God bless,
ZP

 

[Al1953]

I understand that abortion is a terrible thing. I, as a Catholic, am pro-life and support my local pro-life movement, Project Defending Life. I am a pro-life democrat and email my Representatives and Senators in my state about these issues. This is going to be a tuff couple of months because I just don’t feel that the other partys platform is good for the country (war in Iraq, cutting education, taxes and other issues). However, if I am obligated to vote for life, I of course will. How do I deal with the fact I vote for life yet other issues I am concerned about I leave them behind. Thanks,

God bless,
ZP

I don’t know what to tell you except I live in Illinois and know Mr O’Bama well. In the Illinois house he voted 139 time present except for any pro abortion bill which he did take a stance and it was yes. He voted for the partial birth abortion where the baby is born then murdered. I am a conservative so the choice is easy for me but I do hope God will tell you what to do before November. Good luck!

 

[cydonian]

IMHO, If one does not respect life - especially the weakest among us, what kind of person are they?

The war in Iraq may be unjust in many eyes, but how many have died there compared to how many babies have been murdered in that same time span?
I am not a ‘single issue’ voter, but supporting life at all stages is at the top of my list.

 

[DrPiano]

In a way, I know how you feel. While I generally consider myself a pro-life Republican, I’ve been disappointed lately with the way my party has handled some things in the past few years. Here’s some things I can think of.

First, as I’ve heard it eloquently put in the past, no other right or freedom matters if you’re not alive. Thus, the right to life is the most basic of human rights. We have a responsibility as voters to make sure that we’re putting into office those who will unequivocably support the right to life.

BUT as citizens we also have a responsibility to make our voices heard. Write to every major person in your party that you can think of and explain why you’re voting for the other people. Explain why you believe the right to life is so fundamental. God willing, both major parties will see the light and we’ll have TWO pro-life parties with two pro-life platforms to choose from.

AND on the other issues - write to the people that you’re voting for. Explain why you voted for them but express concern over their policies. Get your like-minded friends to do the same. I regularly write to my state’s senators and representatives (and my governor), many of whom do not tend to agree with me politically. With each letter, take each issue separately. Explain why the issue is important to you, and what you’d like to see happen. Any truly good representative of you (which ought to be anyone who has been elected to office) ought to take that into consideration.

Finally - before, during, and after - PRAY. Pray for God’s wisdom, both for voters and for our elected officials. Pray that God will fill them with compassion, particularly for those who are most weak and most vulnerable. Pray that God will give them the wisdom they need to govern appropriately. Pray, Pray, Pray.

I hope that helps a little…

 

[idrum677]

The way I see it, we have a duty to look out for the most vulnerable of the world before ourselves. I know healthcare, the economy, and education are important but they do not compare with the great scandle of abortion and other life issues.

Jesus tells us to worry about material things.

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?
– Matthew 6:25-26

St Paul also reminds us to use our choices for toe sake of others.

For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don’t use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.
–Galatians 5:13, NLT

I feel that the moral issues do drive this campaign more than any other. Pray that the Lord will guide your decisions, but remember that our actions have reprocussions for us and others.

God Bless

 

[BlestOne]

I don’t know what to tell you except I live in Illinois and know Mr O’Bama well. In the Illinois house he voted 139 time present except for any pro abortion bill which he did take a stance and it was yes. He voted for the partial birth abortion where the baby is born then murdered. I am a conservative so the choice is easy for me but I do hope God will tell you what to do before November. Good luck!

Yep, Illinois here too… it is true… He is not only anti-prolife… he is pro abortion to the max. It is sad that he could possibly vote that if in the commission of an abortion, the child is born live, he or she could be killed… how could anyone trust a person willing to kill a born child just because mom was having an abortion at the time of birth???

 

[Al1953]

Yep, Illinois here too… it is true… He is not only anti-prolife… he is pro abortion to the max. It is sad that he could possibly vote that if in the commission of an abortion, the child is born live, he or she could be killed… how could anyone trust a person willing to kill a born child just because mom was having an abortion at the time of birth???

I hear ya! I think when I started to realize the carnage that is abortion was thru my church. I am a Latin Mass Catholic and drive from the western suburbs of Chicago every Sunday to the Tridentine mass in Rockford. Before the sermon Father would give the abortion numbers for one “clinic” in Rockford, Father prefers the name abortion mill. This mill is only open 2 days a week and averages from 35-40 abortions each day. I started to project this out to all the clinics in Illinois and the country. The numbers just bowled me over! I have no figures to back this up but I am sure more babies are murdered each and every year exceeds all those who died in WW1 and WW2. This couple with the movie silent scream is enough to make you physically ill.

 

[ziapueblo]

Thanks for the advice. Life is the most important issue and all others I’m sure will fall into place.

God bless,
ZP

 

[Biggie]

What would make anyone think that a person who does not know the value of a human life and who says that the question of when life begins is above his “pay grade” would make good decisions regarding war, taxes or anything else?

I’m a one issue voter because a person who cannot answer the most basic question correctly is unfit for public office no matter what else he has to say.