Voting on abortion only?

[swade4147]

Iv read several threads where many Catholic’s have made clear that one can not morally vote for a pro-choice candidate, and that one issue alone is enough to decide who to vote for. Does this mean that if it came down to a vote for someone like John Kerry against some fanatic Muslim like Bin Laden (who would be against abortion), that you should morally obligated to vote for Bin Laden?

 

[PrayHarder]

Interesting hypothetical. Since we could never get Bin Laden to sit down to a town hall discussion, his political position on abortion will always be unknown. But let’s suppose that he is against abortion for the sake of argument.

Now, the reason why people cannot vote for someone who is pro-abortion is because it is an intrinsic evil. When given a choice between someone who stands for an intrinsic evil and someone who does not, you have to go for the one who does not support an intrinsic evil. That was the case in this last election. However, you could make an argument that Bin Laden also represents an intrinsic evil given his actions and what he supports. I’m not an expert of what the Church officially labels an intrinsic evil, but I’m sure Bin Laden would fall into a few categories. If given the choice between two people who both stand for some intrinsic evil you would have to go with, as the saying says, “the lesser of two evils.” In your hypothetical, it would be Kerry.

 

[mlchance]

Does this mean that if it came down to a vote for someone like John Kerry against some fanatic Muslim like Bin Laden (who would be against abortion), that you should morally obligated to vote for Bin Laden?

Two observations: (1) There’s more than just one reason to not vote for Senator Kerry, and (2) isn’t it interesting that it takes putting up Bin Laden as a candidate to make Senator Kerry palatable?



– Mark L. Chance.

 

[manualman]

Easy one. Abortion has been the biggest issue to serious catholics for a long time simply because it is THE inherently evil policy/action that has the greatest proportionate impact, namely the ~50 million dead babies that have resulted from it since 1972.

Bin Laden and his “Death to America” schtick would seem to advocate the slaughter of more like 300 million. Clearly a greater proportionate impact from an inherently evil policy.

Kerry wins my vote over Bin Laden, even if Bin Laden opposes abortion.

Told you it was simple.