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Maranatha
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Sorting through imperfect choices
Unfortunately, the guide that has drawn the most media attention in the past is from the conservative group Catholic Answers, which has reissued its “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics.” It is essentially the same pamphlet describing the “nonnegotiable issues” the group distributed, to much publicity, in 2004. To Catholic Answers, voting is an equation: If Candidate A is closer to Catholic teaching on the “nonnegotiable issues” than Candidate B, the “serious” Catholic should vote for A. The “nonnegotiable issues” are abortion, embryonic stem cell research, gay marriage, euthanasia and human cloning.
In fact, it’s hard to take the “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics” very seriously. For starters, it takes candidate’s assertions (“I oppose abortion”) as statements of purpose.
mroe
Unfortunately, the guide that has drawn the most media attention in the past is from the conservative group Catholic Answers, which has reissued its “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics.” It is essentially the same pamphlet describing the “nonnegotiable issues” the group distributed, to much publicity, in 2004. To Catholic Answers, voting is an equation: If Candidate A is closer to Catholic teaching on the “nonnegotiable issues” than Candidate B, the “serious” Catholic should vote for A. The “nonnegotiable issues” are abortion, embryonic stem cell research, gay marriage, euthanasia and human cloning.
In fact, it’s hard to take the “Voter’s Guide for Serious Catholics” very seriously. For starters, it takes candidate’s assertions (“I oppose abortion”) as statements of purpose.
mroe