Thanks to Colleen Hammond, the following site may help readers who must choose a candidate in a field of stinkers.
What I really love about the Democrats is that though they all moon over the necessity of "choice" EVERY one of them has the same position on EVERY issue surveyed.
P.S. The Giuliani in drag photo (shudder) is added in the interest of equal time.
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Are you kidding me?
Please use your resources to list the issues that the Democrats support and those that the Republicans support and be honest with yourself. The Democrats are actually mor consistant with Catholic social teaching than the Republicans are. Do not forget about capital punishment, health care, war, discrimination (yes, even agianst homosexuals!), etc. This list goes on and on. You have an agenda and you picture of Hillary proves it. Yes, I know all about abortion and I am sick and tired of the religious right using to manipulate their members to vote republican. I call on you to not be a "cafeteria Catholic."
I think your comment is a testimony to us all of the dangers of sacrificing one's Catholic faith on the altar of political expediency. No party whose platform calls for the murder of unborn babies, for medical experiments to be conducted on cloned human beings without their consent and which necessitates their murder, and calls for a public repudiation of the sanctity of marriage can be called consistent with Catholic social teaching.
The logic of your position amounts to this: it is preferable to kill millions of innocent babies every year so that tens of thousands of other people can get social welfare benefits.
Sorry, not buying.
Leave her alone! Your blog is sometimes very childish. I am NOT a one issue voter, and I would rather have her than "W" anyday. Besides, out of all of the Dems, and Repub, NONE of them that will make it are Pro-Life. So I suggest looking at the whole picture.
Love your Blog...
Dear Anonymous,
I can see why you remain anonymous. The Catholic "social" teaching you are talking about is not in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, because it is made up by uniformed people like yourself!
The Catholic church has never written that the government must confiscate money (high forced taxes)from the working middle class to give to social programs which even include abortions.
The Democrats have consistently encouraged the breakdown of the family with social programs such as welfare (DAD is OBSOLETE), encouraging homosexuality, removing God from schools, slaughtering unborn babies, and the dangerous feminist movement.
It is because of abortion that we have an increase in child predators and murders of children by their parents and so many divorces and unwed mothers. If you get rid of abortions, less murders and then less people that have to be executed.
Now, anonymous, you are probably thinking, what does abortion have to do with all of those other evils. Hint: It is our nature to protect our off spring, so what happens when we begin to accept the unacceptable.
Of course you are not buying it, you have an agenda! Do you think for one second that there will be zero abortions if it were illegal.
Quick question: for how many days during a Republican presidency was abortion illegal in this land? A-ZERO! Many Democrats and pro-choicers would love to see less abortions and are working to educate the public regarding sex and sexuality. This will lower abortion rates, not politics! Politics have not lowered the rate of abortions in this country and never will. As wierd as it may sounds, I think that Democrats are more likely to help the pro-life abortion agenda than Republicans. All that Republicans will do is use the issue to convince people to vote for them!
AND very few Democrats want to extend marriage rights to same-sex unions.
The Democratic platform does NOT call for murder. They do not demand that people get abortions.
Note - the pro-war Republican party platorm certain has "CALLED" for murder.
Please do not suggest that the Republican party platform is any more consistant with Catholic social teahing than the Democratic.
One more thing...
If you want anyone to believe that you do not have an agenda, plase change the picture of Ms. Clinton!
Abortion is an abomination but laws have not demonstrated effective in dictating morality. If laws should govern morality by the Church's standard, shouldn't laws governing an individual’s disposal of sperm and unovulated eggs be governed as well? I believe this type of control of personal lives and moral thinking will take us all back to the dark ages of Inquisition.
Jesus's love,
Thank you all for your comments. It is hard to keep the anonymous comments straight-- in the future, if you post anonymously, it may help to put some intitials at the bottom to identify yourself for replies.
To the anon who points out that my blog is sometimes childish, guilty. Talk to my wife. But you say you love the blog anyway. Thanks. The picture of Hillary is just in fun-- I mean, come on, if you were her would you EVER set yourself up for that photo?
To another anon-- I do have an agenda, absolutely. I intend that my agenda is that of the Catholic Church. Pure and simple. I might get it wrong, but let no one doubt which agenda I am shooting for.
Hillary or Obama, both would advocate legal abortion and human cloning. These are always objectively morally grave evils. Neither war, nor the death penalty, nor any social welfare program cuts, are per se moral evils. If you don't like this statement, you don't like the teaching of Jesus Christ as articulated by His Church.
There is a hierarchy of issues with which to deal. Abortion and life issues are at the top. Non-negotiable.
Are many Republicans pro-life in name only? Absolutely. Please keep calling them on it. But to further wear out the tired "lesser of two evils" argument, a do-nothing President on the life issue is infinitely preferrable to an actively pro-abortion President.
It is a poorly kept secret that I would prefer Ron Paul. And for my anti-war friends, he is the only Republican who is against the Iraq War.
Francis, I welcome you as a reader, but you and I are on two different planets. If laws are ineffective, then hey, legalize murder, exortion, arson, etc., because they happen anyway. And I won't be drawn into an argument about the inquisition, because the popular history of it is a complete joke.
Truth and charity, charity, charity. I agree here with Timman and Latinmassgirl. . . .what more is there to say? This blog was made to bring out the true Catholic teachings of the Church. Sure, there is occassionally some humor here and honestly, who wouldn't have picked that picture of Hillary? That picture has been circulating on the internet since the whole campaigns started, she set herself up.
It's true, it's hard to find a presidential candidate that can change the morality of our world, but we have to do our best to try. Our lives are based on morality, not social issues.
Thanks Timman for doing your best to bring the truth to many through charity.
God Bless!
cmziall, thanks, I do need to remember to focus on charity while defending the truth. Veritatem Facientes in Caritate, as they say.
But, I don't see the Hillary picture as a problem. That's just funny.
P.S. Anon. . .your quote "Democrats and pro-choicers would love to see less abortions and are working to educate the public regarding sex and sexuality."
So, is that education abstinence and Natural Family Planning? Surely, not. Many don't realize that contraception is just another form of abortion.
Giuliani doesn't look half bad as a drag queen. Heck - I'd tip him a dollar to watch him lip sync "Love for Sale."
Jeron, for me, that's a bridge too far.
Nice picture of Guiliani!
But once again you still shove your agenda out through this bog site. Don't tyr to tell us that it is a Catholic agenda and therefor ok. Yeah, he is a repubican. But he just happens to be Pro-Choice. I would not expect you to pick on a Republican that isn't! The day that you acknowledge the clear Church teaching that makes a just-war virtaully impossible and the death penalty almost NEVER an option (or cover any other of the BULK of Catholic teaching that the Republican agenda contradicts) is the day that I think YOU care about anything other than a right-wing aganda (Which can hardly be considered Christian or even Catholic!).
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