Reply #68: That's the irony for many Catholics [View All]

[TexasProgresive]

The conundrum that many Catholic voters face is that they subscribe to Benardins "Seamless Garment" model of pro life. Bernardin proposed that all life is sacred as a gift from God and that it should be protected. This means that all anti life actions are wrong including abortion, nuclear war, war, capital punishment and actions which abuse the poor and increase their poverty.

I refused to vote in presidential elections for years because no candidate came close to viewing life as sacred. Then I realized that the repugnants were using abortion as a wedge issue. Those at the top do not really want to eliminate abortion because they would have to find another catalyst to set the religious right on fire. The fundies used to stay out of politics because it was too worldly. Anti-abortion brought them out of their prayer closets into the voting booth.

While I wish that abortion was not happening, I stand firmly by the rest of the Democrat party positions which is more in line with supporting families, workers, women well this list could go on forever.

The issue of abortion is not really classically conservative/liberal. It is really a social/cultural question. I heard an interview with Jessie Ventura who described himself as a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. This probable describes repugs like the log cabin bunch and others. Likewise there are those who are fiscal liberal and social conservatives - one doesn't mean the other - just as capitalism doesn't equal democracy.