One-issue voters

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I wonder how “one-issue” voters balance gun rights with abortion rights?

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What does that have to do with gun rights? Your post doesn’t make sense for this Thread.
 
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The right to own a gun has nothing to do with abortion.
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You’re right. The Right To Choose to manufacture, sell, or own a weapon has nothing to do with abortion. It does, however, have everything to do with the Culture of Death that we created.

We complain about how artificial birth control leads to higher abortion rates. What about how flooding the nation with firearms leads to gun deaths? “But,” people will say, “the firearms protect us from villains.” To which I would reply, “Doesn’t a condom protect us from pregnancy?”

Anyway, I’m done with my thread. Got it off my chest in a safe space. My career is in a gov’t position and it is better that I not make political statements that might run afoul of the people who sign my paycheck.
 
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The issue that’s bigger than gun rights is that we have a society who doesn’t value life. Period.
 
@FCPR, I would heartily disagree with your assertion that “once the woman has the baby, both are on their own”. In just about every Catholic parish I know of in my city (and we’re the 3rd largest in the U.S.), there is a resource ministry for women who choose to keep or adopt out their babies instead of killing them. The ministries provide everything from emotional to financial to practical help. And there are plenty of secular pro-life groups out there, such as Feminists For Life, that do the same thing- including at the college campus level. Catholic, and non-Catholic churches and members give more to the mothers and babies than any pro-abortion group, hands down. In the natural law, there is no “right” to abortion.

Also, just so you’re aware, if you vote for candidates who are advocating abortion, if you are Catholic, that is a grave sin - regardless of what their platform on gun rights are.
 
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There’s no contradiction. I’m pro life. Therefore, I’m anti abortion and pro gun rights so I can keep a gun to protect my life and the life of my family.
 
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Also, just so you’re aware, if you vote for candidates who are advocating abortion, if you are Catholic, that is a grave sin - regardless of what their platform on gun rights are.
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That isn’t correct. You aren’t supposed to vote for a candidate because they are pro-choice. If they are pro-choice, but that is not the reason you are voting for them, then the Church doesn’t have a problem with it.
 
Let me rephrase it: if you are a practicing Catholic, and the slate of politicians that you must choose from when voting includes a pro abortion candidate and a pro-life candidate, if your conscience is fully formed, and there are no other over bearing reasons for you to NOT vote for the pro life person (such as them advocating SSM or something equally against Church dogma), then voting for the pro abortion person would be sinful.
 
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Okay. :woman_shrugging:t2: I’m paraphrasing a podcast by Jimmy Akin on the Catholic Answer website. But you do you.
 
No. But he is considered a really good apologist for the Church. I dare say he knows more about the subject and the Church’s stance on it than either of us. Go to the “ask the apologist” section and research a bit more.
All I’m saying is that to vote for a pro abortion candidate, as a faithful Catholic, is a LAST resort, and if you do vote for one simply because they advocate gun control, that would be sinful. And I believe most theologians would agree.
 
That is completely incorrect. I don’t mean to beat a dead horse here, but the reality is a lot of Catholics hold the belief you express. It is simply not what the church teaches.
 
Then please, cite your source from Church teaching that says it’s fine to vote for pro abortion candidates, with no spiritual ramifications.
 
I think this is a very good article on how Catholics are asked to carefully decide between candidates and why a Catholic may, without sin, choose a candidate that is pro-choice over a pro-life candidate.

http://www.uscatholic.org/blog/201603/can-catholic-vote-democrat-moral-considerations-30587

Specific to my convictions is this quote, “Even though the overall abortion rate has declined in the past three decades, it has risen by 18% among poor women. Catholic voters might come to the conclusion that the Democratic platform of social and economic aid could help alleviate the conditions that are motivating poor women to seek abortion in the first place.”
 
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