A Catholic Brief for Obama

I am anti abortion, Catholic and pro-life in all situations. Pro-life means so much more than only anti-abortion. It means all life is valued, babys, war victims, prisoners, the poor. I am voting for Obama! Following Christ requires feeding the poor, clothing the naked, loving my neighbor, caring for the sick, ect..

I reject the premise that a faithful can back a demon. People who are not Catholic should not comment because you do not have our beliefs. There is too much rationlization over the pro choice side but the fact remains it is still a innocent child that is being put to death. The pope, the bishops, and our faithful followers know the rules. If woman chose thier mates carefully thru proper courtship and not create these innocents, then there would be not abortions. Only respectful relationships and strong marriages.
The dems need the woman vote and would rather kill babies for their political power.

Giving more social "hand-outs" will not end poverty. We have already tried it. It keeps people right at the same socio-economic level- look at African Americans compared to anyother minority- still the highest level of poverty. Giving more aid to lower income families does not fix the problem, especially when that aid is being redistributed from better-off people such as myself. A lesson in Micro-economics. I am a doctor. My sister babysits at any given time about 5 kids in her home and pretty much lives close to the poverty level.
Acting here as the "fedral government" I started paying cable, electric, water, etc for my sister. 5 years later- is she any better off? Nope. In fact- once I started paying her bills, she CUT DOWN on the number of kids she would watch.
So giving aid to poor families will not solve the problem of abortion. It is ecudation and the value our culture places on life and the clear stance on this issue from the Catholic Church that SHOULD stop abortions.
Their is no excuse. Church Doctrine is church Doctrine. Abortion is strictly prohibited-period. You can not negotiate with it, you can not reason with it. The Church absolutely demands that you do not support a pro-choice candidate-period. Man's justification and/or reasoning as proposed is like many things that have faced the Church over two millenia- a challenge. However despite its faults over the centuries, which by the way Jesus warned about it, "The gates of Hell will not prevail over it." You cannot name ANYTHING that has lasted two thousand years, with its global reach centered in one place, members from all over the world, and whose laws and power extend into countries that have sovreign governments, and whose members are from every socioecoomic backgrounds and culture. (Google the "Miricale of the Catholic Church" the rest of the title of the article is "Lends Support to the Existance of God")

We as a nation are doomed if we don't have the courage to stand up for those that have no voice: the unborn, yet conceived. One cannot go down the slippery slope that is the argument for abortion: as soon as one does, then it becomes easier to rationalize many other issues of extreme concern.

F. LaGard Smith, a Professor of Law at Pepperdine University in California, wrote an excellent book titled 'When Choice Becomes God.' To paraphrase Bill Muehlenberg's review of the book:

"Choice is indeed the false god of this age. Hiding behind such facades as ???I???m personally against abortion but I won???t impose my values on others - it???s their choice??? just won???t wash. One might just as well say, ???I???m personally against rape and genocide, but others must make up their own minds.??? There are some areas that are just out of bounds, just beyond choice.'

The U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the industrialized world; where's the outrage about THAT? These folks (below) want to focus on the very rarely occuring "partial birth abortion", to the exclusion of this national tragedy, which of course gets far less press. It certainly makes no sense to call their position "pro - life" while they continue to ignore the unnecessary death of U.S. infants due to our sorry health care system. If you want to talk about saving babies, let's talk about reforming health care....and don't even try to tell me a $5,000 tax credit will help - that won't pay for half of most insurance premiums. Wake up, rigid right!

A church can't have a value system based on race. The churches value
> system has to be based on biblical mandate. It does not matter if its a
> white church or a black church it's still wrong. Anyone from either
> race that attends a church like this would never get my vote.
>
> Obama's former Pastor Jeremiah Wright is a disciple of liberal
> theologian James Cone, author of the 1970 book A Black Theology of
> Liberation. Cone once wrote: 'Black theology refuses to accept a God
> who is
> not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is
> not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had
> better kill him.
>
> Cone is the man Obama's mentor looks up to. Does Obama believe this?
>
> So what does all this mean for the nation?

The abortion debate mystifies me. Calling an acorn an oak tree does not make it one. Calling a week-old fetus a child does not make it one.

Granted, religious institutions aren't known for being on a solid intellectual footing, but this is ridiculous. The church encourages its members to vote on a single issue which will probably never affect them, and ignore the economic issues which will affect every one of them. It's sad how religious belief gets perverted in this way.

I am a Catholic pro-Life white Republican woman. I am voting for Obama.

People forget that BOTH Obama and McCain have been pro-Choice. McCain "flip-flopped" on this issue in 2004 when he started voting 90% with Bush. Prior to 2004 McCain was pro-Choice, and he even called Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell "agents of intolerance" (which in fact they were). Since that time he has stood on a stage with Jerry Falwell, praising him. So it is impossible to know what McCain actually thinks on this issue. Is he pandering to the religious right when he vows to overturn Roe v. Wade? What is really in his heart? How would he act if he were elected? Would you get the conservative McCain you see now, the liberal leftist McCain from 1999-2004? These inconsistencies disturb me. I know there is such a thing as political expedience, but the end result is that I can not trust McCain. Nobody knows his real views on abortion.

Furthermore, I think that Obama's position on abortion and many other issues is considerably more moderate than is generally assumed.

To all of the conservatives out there who think that Obama is a flaming liberal, I would like to remind you of what he did when he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review. The Law Review President gets to name ten individuals to write articles for the Review, and these ten people get to control the content of the publication. All of the minorities and the liberals thought they finally had it made, that Obama would appoint ten left wing editors. Instead, Obama appointed three conservatives, three liberals and four moderates. That year the Law Review was critically acclaimed as the best run and best written Harvard publication in decades.

So when he wins in November, conservatives don't have to freak out. Obama is a centrist and will appoint a balanced cabinet full of active people who will really get things done. This is exactly what our nation needs in this time of economic crisis.

Isn't there just ONE "anti-abortion" person out there, who believes a fetus is equal to a live, after birth, baby, who will answer the question I ask? (See comments posted at 8:02 this morning) Why not?