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[TCPluto]

I'm catholic and I'm voting for Obama.

http://catholicsforobama.blogspot.com/2008/09/catholics-outraged-by-palin-insults.html

This is great, pictures 45 and 46 (nuns holding up sign "Sisters for McCain").

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...=NEWS&ArtNo=809050806&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=47

 

[profdsny]

One more for BO. Plus a whole family, and school as well. Including nuns.

 

[mickey2000]

This is great, pictures 45 and 46 (nuns holding up sign "Sisters for McCain").

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...=NEWS&ArtNo=809050806&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=47

Did you you click on buy the photo !
First $30.00; Additional $24.00

 

[TLSnell1981]

Practicing Catholic....McCain/Palin!! I personally don't know any practicing Catholics voting Obama.

 

[akhenaten]

another Catholic for Obama here!!
along with the 2 others in my family of voting age!!!

 

[duckfan78]

Practicing RC for McCain/Palin.

The problem I have is, how can someone who is Cath, be pro-choice? Isn't that basically something the JC would not approve of? How can you just pick and say...well, JC says abortion isn't right, but, I will just overlook that little fact because I want to? Isn't that hypocritical?

 

[akhenaten]

Practicing RC for McCain/Palin.

The problem I have is, how can someone who is Cath, be pro-choice? Isn't that basically something the JC would not approve of? How can you just pick and say...well, JC says abortion isn't right, but, I will just overlook that little fact because I want to? Isn't that hypocritical?

simple ....I separate my religion/personal beliefs from my citizenship.......

 

[duckfan78]

simple ....I separate my religion/personal beliefs from my citizenship.......

?? So you are against Abortion religiously, but are pro-choice politically?

 

[JARNJ3]

simple ....I separate my religion/personal beliefs from my citizenship.......

Same here - and most Catholics I know are voting Obama.

I doubt I'd ever want or hopefully never need an abortion - but it is my CHOICE - not the government's or someone else's religious beliefs.......

 

[smartestnumber5]

Practicing RC for McCain/Palin.

The problem I have is, how can someone who is Cath, be pro-choice? Isn't that basically something the JC would not approve of? How can you just pick and say...well, JC says abortion isn't right, but, I will just overlook that little fact because I want to? Isn't that hypocritical?

According to the Catholic Church Jesus also doesn't approve of remarriage after a divorce. Is it hypocritical, then, for Catholics to support laws which allow a second civil marriage without a Catholic annulment of the first marriage? Isn't it then also hypocritical for a Catholic to vote for McCain?

 

[akhenaten]

?? So you are against Abortion religiously, but are pro-choice politically?

I am anti-abortion personally( for me) due to my beliefs and am pro-choice since I believe women should be able to chose according to their beliefs

 

[duckfan78]

I am anti-abortion personally( for me) due to my beliefs and am pro-choice since I believe women should be able to chose according to their beliefs

Interesting.

 

[TLSnell1981]

I am anti-abortion personally( for me) due to my beliefs and am pro-choice since I believe women should be able to chose according to their beliefs

 

[duckfan78]

According to the Catholic Church Jesus also doesn't approve of remarriage after a divorce. Is it hypocritical, then, for Catholics to support laws which allow a second civil marriage without a Catholic annulment of the first marriage? Isn't it then also hypocritical for a Catholic to vote for McCain?

First off, I don't think you can compare killing an unborn baby to a 2nd marriage, but that is a different debate.

I don't judge anyone, so if he got a divorce then he did, he isn't catholic, so I couldn't say weather or not he would have gotten an annulment if he was catholic.

What I am saying is, as a catholic, how can you support someone who thinks abortion is ok? You asked a question from a question.

 

[amyhughes]

I thought I had heard there were issues with being Catholic and the POTUS b/c of the abortion issue amongst other things that jive completely against the Church's stance. I seem to remember when Kerry was running, people were concerned if he would vote against the Church and Pro-Choice, and could be ex-communicated? Not trying to start anything, I just remember a story on NPR about it.

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Catholic that believes in Pro Choice here

 

[duckfan78]

something some of you might enjoy, and some of you might hate knowing.

http://www.disneydreamer.com/Waltcheck.htm

Walt was a Rep.

 

[Mickey&Donald]

something some of you might enjoy, and some of you might hate knowing.

http://www.disneydreamer.com/Waltcheck.htm

Walt was a Rep.

What does that have to do with the price of rice in China?

Seems like you're just trying to get us libs all riiiled up! I don't care what Walt voted, he was still a great man and one of my personal heroes. Heck, at least half of my immediate family and one of my best friends are staunch Republicans and I still love them, too. We just don't talk politics. You see, us liberal-minded folk are into this thing called "tolerance" -- for other people's beliefs and how they want to conduct their own lives. It's pretty fun, you ought to try it sometime!

p.s. My mother is a practicing Roman Catholic, recently switched her registration from Republican to Green Party and is voting Obama in November.

 

[smartestnumber5]

First off, I don't think you can compare killing an unborn baby to a 2nd marriage, but that is a different debate.

I don't judge anyone, so if he got a divorce then he did, he isn't catholic, so I couldn't say weather or not he would have gotten an annulment if he was catholic.

What I am saying is, as a catholic, how can you support someone who thinks abortion is ok? You asked a question from a question.

Well I understand that if you think abortion is murder, then it's going to be more of a problem for you than divorce is (even if you don't agree with divorce). But in your earlier post you mentioned that according to Catholicism Jesus disapproves of abortion as if that alone is the reason Catholics should not support abortion being legal.

What I am pointing out is that there are lots of things that Jesus/the Catholic Church thinks are wrong (divorce--or at least remarriage after divorce without an annulment, premarital sex, birth control, etc.), but no one thinks that Catholics have to oppose those things being legal just because they are Catholic.

So what I am saying is, some Catholics can vote for a person who supports abortion being legal just as you can vote for a person who supports divorce or premarital sex or birth control being legal.

Some Catholics just don't accept everything that the church says about every issue (especially birth control, sex, gay rights, and abortion). And even if one does accept that abortion is a sin, they might still think it is not acceptable for the government to make it illegal given that not everyone in the U.S. accepts the Catholic Church's view on abortion; there is reasonable disagreement about the morality of abortion and so people might think it is not acceptable to impose one moral/religious view on everyone (his is essentially Biden's position).

In the case of some of my family members, I think they do find abortion to be seriously morally wrong in most cases, but I think they also believe that making it illegal is not the way to prevent abortion. Abortion still occurred when it was illegal, but it was much less safe for women. So I think they favor making birth control accessible, teaching comprehensive sex-ed, and making sure that women who have unwanted pregnancies have the economic resources to have and raise the baby if they choose to--and that view seems to fit in with the Democratic Party much more than the Republican party.

 

[pr surfer]

Practicing Catholic....McCain/Palin!! I personally don't know any practicing Catholics voting Obama.

The majority of the Catholic side of my family, both practicing and nonpracticing, is voting Obama (I remembered there's a single McCain holdout) The Jewish side is mostly Obama with a few McCain holdouts.

I personally am a former/nonpracticing catholijew turned RSF who is voting Obama.