{"id":5934,"date":"2008-10-24T07:12:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T07:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/10\/no-catholic-can-in-good-consci.html"},"modified":"2008-10-24T07:12:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T07:12:13","slug":"no-catholic-can-in-good-consci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/10\/no-catholic-can-in-good-consci.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Catholic Can in Good Conscience Vote for Obama&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic bishops have come out quite strongly against abortion pushing back against the Democrats who want to minimize this issue and make it a matter of personal choice. They are quite clear that the teaching of the church is settled on this issue and that Catholics cannot support pro-abortion candidates.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/politics\/story.php?id=30221\">Bishop Gracida created an ad (to be used by Catholics to buy ads on their local radio stations)<\/a> that makes it clear that a Catholic must vote their conscience, they cannot vote for a pro-abortion candidate and Obama is a pro-abortion candidate. He couldn&#8217;t be any clearer, don&#8217;t vote for Obama.<br \/>\nIt will be interesting to see the results of this struggle in the exit polls. During the primaries Obama had a problem with Catholics but I&#8217;m not sure where he stands with them now. I<a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/blog\/g\/6b12e1b6-ef2f-41d5-bdb2-bfc1af95644b\">n the IBD shows a swing by Catholics to McCain<\/a>, so who knows? The bishops may be having an impact on their flock.<br \/>\nIn 2004 Kerry, a Catholic, lost the Catholic vote to Bush over the abortion issue but this year you have Catholics like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/convictions\/archive\/2008\/03\/23\/endorsing-obama.aspx\">Kmiec endorsing Obama<\/a> as<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prolifeproobama.com\/\"> a pro-life candidate<\/a> (when I saw that site I immediately thought of Isaiah 5:30). So, I think the issue is far from settled even though Obama is the most pro-abortion candidate that has ever run for president. That doesn&#8217;t seem to bother his Catholic and Evangelical voters, their conscience appears to be clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic bishops have come out quite strongly against abortion pushing back against the Democrats who want to minimize this issue and make it a matter of personal choice. 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