Addressing the Catholic vote and Obama
A recent article by Kathryn Lopez asks the question about whether a Catholic can consider voting for Barack Obama. She explains her thoughts quite lucidly and comes down on the side of life. She addresses those Catholics who send her emails and want to ignore the pro-life issue as they make the case for Obama. Even Doug Kmiec is back in the news sadly embarrassing himself as an obama apologist.
So let us take a moment and exercise a little common sense.
1. There is a difference between war and abortion.
Some wars can be justified. Abortion can never be justified. Perhaps you oppose the Iraq conflict. Perhaps you have good reasons to oppose our continued presence in Iraq. If you could look into the future and saw that tens of thousands would die if the U.S. left now, then if you were a caring and compassionate human being, you would not opt to leave now. You would want to protect those innocent human lives.
Abortion kills over 3600 people a day just in the U.S. alone. Is that a good thing? I don't think so. And if you are a caring and compassionate human being, you would not think so either.
2. Obama has no history of supporting Catholic principles.
Really if you think about it, what has Obama done to earn your vote?
He supports positions directly contrary to Church teachings (not to mention the Natural Law) on the family, on the nature and purpose of private property, on the role of parents, on life, on end of life issues, on marriage, just to name a few. So what does he say that should even get him in the door for you to consider him? Oh he wants to use government - oops tax payer dollars to help the poor. Check out his tax returns over the last few years. What has he ever given to help the poor?
So when people tell me he is going to help the poor, where is the proof?
The only thing that i can believe is that he is going to take more of my money to fund his programs, leaving me with less of my money to give to the charities and to support the programs I think best. And of course ever since his party has taken power in the Congress in January 2007, gas prices and the cost of living have gone up. Gas prices have almost doubled since 2007.
That really helps the poor ... and the working class ... and the middle class. But then considering his income, he and his wife can tell us all to lower our expectations as she did in a speech in February this year.
But back to my point.
Common Sense tells one not to simply listen to the words but to look at the actions. So in looking at Barack ones sees a fellow
embracing abortion
embracing Planned Parenthood
embracing the homosexual movement to change the family
and that is just the beginning.
But enough for now.
So let us take a moment and exercise a little common sense.
1. There is a difference between war and abortion.
Some wars can be justified. Abortion can never be justified. Perhaps you oppose the Iraq conflict. Perhaps you have good reasons to oppose our continued presence in Iraq. If you could look into the future and saw that tens of thousands would die if the U.S. left now, then if you were a caring and compassionate human being, you would not opt to leave now. You would want to protect those innocent human lives.
Abortion kills over 3600 people a day just in the U.S. alone. Is that a good thing? I don't think so. And if you are a caring and compassionate human being, you would not think so either.
2. Obama has no history of supporting Catholic principles.
Really if you think about it, what has Obama done to earn your vote?
He supports positions directly contrary to Church teachings (not to mention the Natural Law) on the family, on the nature and purpose of private property, on the role of parents, on life, on end of life issues, on marriage, just to name a few. So what does he say that should even get him in the door for you to consider him? Oh he wants to use government - oops tax payer dollars to help the poor. Check out his tax returns over the last few years. What has he ever given to help the poor?
According to Tax Prof BlogSo in 2001 he and the Mrs. made over $272,000 and gave $1,470 to charity. Amazing that during the aftermath of 9-11, Obama did not give something to some of the charities helping the families of those who dies in the attack on the World Trade Center. But then I know little old ladies (and gents) who give more than that amount on a retiree's income.
So when people tell me he is going to help the poor, where is the proof?
The only thing that i can believe is that he is going to take more of my money to fund his programs, leaving me with less of my money to give to the charities and to support the programs I think best. And of course ever since his party has taken power in the Congress in January 2007, gas prices and the cost of living have gone up. Gas prices have almost doubled since 2007.
That really helps the poor ... and the working class ... and the middle class. But then considering his income, he and his wife can tell us all to lower our expectations as she did in a speech in February this year.
But back to my point.
Common Sense tells one not to simply listen to the words but to look at the actions. So in looking at Barack ones sees a fellow
embracing abortion
embracing Planned Parenthood
embracing the homosexual movement to change the family
and that is just the beginning.
But enough for now.
posted by Jakubczyk on Life | 8:22 PM
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