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Christ-Followers Voting For A Pro-Choice Candidate?

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Bishop Cupich from South Dakota wrote a piece for the Catholic News Service.  One of the provacative things he wrote in this article is this:

“Some have argued — misleadingly — that our moral obligation to defend innocent human life means that it is never morally permissible for a Catholic to vote for a candidate who supports abortion rights,” the editors wrote. “Given the specific choices facing voters, disqualification of pro-choice candidates is neither automatic nor universal.”

I’m not sure that statement is true based on the Catechism of the Church.  If life is sacred from conception to natural death (as the Church teaches) than voting for someone who supports abortion is voting for a murderer by definition, isn’t it?  It seems Biblical that even if a little crap is in a sandwich with otherwise wonderful ingredients, it’s still a crap sandwich (a little leaven leaves the whole lump).  I could vote for a pro-life Catholic Democrat that supports amnesty because – hey – I don’t like avocado on my sandwich but the rest of it is good.  I’ll pick off the avocado.  But if any ingredient can be categorized as crap, being pro-choice has got to be one of them.  You don’t pick that stuff off and still take a bite.  The sandwich is ruined.

If both candidates are pro-choice with no good third party option – that’s where it gets hard…

Eric Goranson

Eric Goranson is a native of Lake Mills, Iowa. After moving to Austin, Texas and Southern California (attending 9 public schools in the process), he returned to Iowa where he graduated from Des Moines Christian School and earned his Associate’s and Bachelor’s degrees at William Penn University. Eric is Principal at Goranson Consulting in Des Moines, specializing in Government Relations and Nonprofit Consulting.

Eric has more than sixteen years’ experience in state government and nonprofit organizations including the roles of Development Director at Iowa Christian Academy and Des Moines radio station Q99.5 KZZQ/Pulse 99.5. Eric has also worked in Governor Terry Branstad’s office during his fourth term and in the Division of Criminal Investigation. Eric ran for Iowa State House in 2004.Eric serves as a Curriculum Committee Member at the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute, is President of Iowa Advocates for Choice in Education, and is Chair of the Iowa Educational Opportunities PAC. He is a thinker, hunter, hiker, backpacker, movie watcher, traveler, soccer-lover/player, and music fanatic with a predilection for theatre and art; especially photography. His two children keep him and his wife very busy and very grateful.

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  3. i’ve been hinting to you we knew each other …good to see your doing God’s work …my grandfather is a pastor at a church. his name is james holmes. though i am not as serious about religion, i am against abortion with the exception of certain cases such as rape. i think people need to be responsible and not consider a living organism inside their body as an uncomfortable parasite, beside the fact roe vs. wade should be overturned and the states should have the right to decide this issue as our founders meant it to be.
    chat with ya later,
    darren

  4. i’ve been hinting to you we knew each other …good to see your doing God’s work …my grandfather is a pastor at a church. his name is james holmes. though i am not as serious about religion, i am against abortion with the exception of certain cases such as rape. i think people need to be responsible and not consider a living organism inside their body as an uncomfortable parasite, beside the fact roe vs. wade should be overturned and the states should have the right to decide this issue as our founders meant it to be.
    chat with ya later,
    darren

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