I JUST CAN'T LET THIS ISSUE PASS...

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 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2008

News Updates, 11/5

Catholics Go For Obama (Rev. Thomas J. Reese)
Catholic voters ignored the instructions of a group of vocal bishops and delivered 54% of their vote for Barack Obama as president of the United States. These bishops, led by Archbishops Charles Chaput and Raymond Burke, argued that abortion was the most important issue in the election and that no other issues outweighed it. As a result, they argued, Catholics could not vote for a pro-choice candidate....
[Are these Obama "Catholics", in fact, Catholic at all? I think not.]

Not to Vote Pro-Life Is to Participate in the Culture of Death: Archbishop Burke
“A good citizen must support and vote for the candidate who most supports the inalienable dignity of innocent and defenseless life, and the integrity of marriage.” 
[Polls indicate that the Catholic vote was split, generally, among both McCain and Obama. It is deplorable and repugnant that any Christian, Catholic or otherwise, would vote for a candidate for the office of president who supports legislation which allows the destruction of innocent human life, the murder of babies in the womb or outside the womb. I am so sickened and saddened that we, as a once God-fearing people, have failed miserably in the sight of Almighty God and his precious little ones by electing leaders who have no regard for life. We now reap what we have sown - especially if 'The One' follows through on his promises to undue the years and years of arduous work over the past 35 years in trying to right a monstrous and wicked wrong. Let us pray for Divine Intervention and mercy and ask our Blessed Mother and all of the Saints to pray for us as well. God suely knows that we need help!]

Repugnant???  

I think it is "deplorable and repugnant" that for the past 8 years we have been in a war that has gone nowhere, and that we have consistently used might before diplomacy.  I think it is "deplorable and repugnant" that Poverty in the United States is cyclical in nature with roughly 12% to 17% living below the federal poverty line at any given point in time, and roughly 40% falling below the poverty line at some point within a 10 year time span. In terms of pre-transfer absolute poverty rates, in 2000 the United States ranked tenth among sixteen developed countries;  In 2006, the poverty rate for minors in the United States was the highest in the industrialized world, with 21.9% of all minors and 30% of African American minors living below the poverty threshold (Wikipedia). WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS??  AGHHHHH!!!

I think it is "deplorable and repugnant" that more than 19 million women are uninsured in this country, and women are more likely than men to delay or not get medical care because of high costs; one in four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime--family violence accounted for 11 percent of all violence between 1998 and 2002. That the percentage of women diagnosed with AIDS has quadrupled over the last twenty years.  My God in heaven, the list can go on and on--and ON.

I agree...in my Catholic worldview, abortion is a sin.  But "not to vote pro-life is to participate in the culture of death?"  Come ON Bishop Burke.  I did vote pro life in the last election.  I voted for Obama who addresses ALL of these issues, not just one.  I am not a single issue voter!