The following is excerpted from the October issue of the Catholic Courier:

…it’s hard to fault Catholic voters such as Kmiec for being concerned about vital issues that may not fall under the heading of intrinsic evils. Mich(director of social policy for the Catholic family center) observed that voters face a dilemma when, for instance, high poverty rates under an anti-abortion president might actually cause more women to seek abortions.

This is absolute rubbish. I don’t have any difficulty faulting Catholics who would vote for a radical pro-abortion politician such as Barack Obama. The killing of babies cannot be tolerated nor endorsed by any serious Catholic. Let’s save the babies first then worry about high poverty rates(whatever that means).

By the way, the decision on how to vote this year has been greatly simplified by the platforms of the two major parties. Read the following excerpts and you will see what I mean:

Republican platform: Faithful to the first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence, we assert the inherent dignity and sanctity of all human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and we endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections apply to unborn children. We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion and will not fund organizations which advocate it. We support the appointment of judges who respect traditional family values and the sanctity and dignity of innocent human life…we oppose the non-consensual withholding of care or treatment from people with disabilities, as well as the elderly and infirm, just as we oppose euthanasia and assisted suicide

Democratic platform: The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v Wade and a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay, and we oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right.

The 2008 Democratic platform even goes so far as to remove language from their 2004 platform saying that abortion should be “rare”.

The Democratic Party has a love affair with baby killing. Archbishop Burke recently stated that the Democratic Party was quickly moving to become the “party of death” in the U.S. How can any Catholic worth his or her salt justify voting for the “party of death”?

Perhaps St. Paul says it best:

For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths. (2 Timothy, 4:3-4)