Well, Obama’s always got the U.S. Catholic readers. Well, a majority of them anyway.
Here’s the question that U.S. Catholic posed and then the response:
7. I intend to vote for Barack Obama in the 2012 elections.
Yes 51%
No 38%
Undecided 11%
I’ve got to wonder, how could Catholics (any Catholics) go through these past three years with Obama’s assault on religious liberty and his radical pro-abortion actions and still vote for this guy? I honestly just don’t see it.
The guy isn’t just for tearing babies apart in the womb, he’s for refusing them treatment when they come out of the womb. And he’s not just for abortion, he’s for taxpayer funded abortion. He’s tried to stamp out religious liberty.
Hey, U.S. Catholic readers! Wake up!
The only good news is that I’d bet three years ago that number was a lot higher among U.S. Catholic readers. But we can’t have Catholics voting for Obama in mass again, can we? Tell me Obama’s not going to win the Catholic vote again. Someone? Please?
January 21, 2012 at 7:32 am
And yet Republicans start truly disastrous wars. Nor do they stop or really try to stop abortion either.
Don't vote, don't participate, don't pay tax. Don't expect protection and assistance, either.
January 21, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Marxists have infiltrated the Church and led the gullible away from Christ toward state worship, Obama. These people might vote for Romney because he is pretty much the same as Obama, either way they win with Romney. Most of them will NEVER vote for Rantorum or Getrich, so we will get 4 more years of Obammunism and Reformation of the Catholic Church to conform with the world.
Ron Paul is the only true conservative in the race, the only one for true religious liberty, the only one who can beat the Obammunist. Fot those interested, watch S.C. primary results on unbiased Revpac:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/1/prweb9124194.htm
January 21, 2012 at 4:00 pm
It is a fact, that the Roman Church, like many churches of this age, suffers from the modernist heresy. I'm not a member of the "Catholic" Communion, though I can tell the difference between a "Catholic" who chooses obedience to what that Church teaches and another that chooses disobedience and yet somehow still considers themselves "Catholic." This is a fundamentally problematic and deeply flawed position. That would be like a person joining the military, and refusing to follow orders… the natural consequence is to be discharged for such behavior based on its incompatability with military service. Yet I digress. If one measures the teaching of their Church against a particular political ideology most candidates fall short. Yet President Obama is arguably the most Contra-Catholic/Orthodox/Protestant/Christian politician ever to assume Executive power in this nation. Frankly, I don't really understand the attraction; but to me, the attraction is little more than a 'passion' at best and at worst a 'sin' from a Catholic perspective if I pit Catholic teaching against some of President Obama's positions on matters like contraception, abortion, gay marriage, etc. It's right there in the Catholic Catechism if you want to compare it for yourself. I try to look at all people, all temptations, through the same light as the Father's of the Church. For example, if we place President Obama in this light, and look at this attraction as some form of fornication or like temptation, and magine him as a corpse as did the Desert Fathers while in the process of mastering their fleshly attractions then perhaps I can see beyond the man and his rhetoric and begin to see the Church, its teaching, and my duty to reject that which leads from spiritual illness to death of soul. Were I to claim myself as "Catholic," I would definitely have to quesition a Catholicity that is contrary to what Catholics believe. Just my opinion.
January 21, 2012 at 5:26 pm
The alternative is to vote Republican……and as one democratic congressman has said: My opponents think that life begins at conception and ends at birth." One issue politics is not the way to go.
January 21, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Okay. Now let's turn our righteous indignation into serious thought about how to counteract this trend.
Obviously we have lots of illy- catechized so-called Catholics within our Church. Out of concern for their souls we must help them. Any "serious" suggestions?
Dear preists I know you are doing all you can to teach the faith, but now it's time for the lay faithful to do our part.
January 21, 2012 at 9:47 pm
To Anonymous (or all the "Anonymi" posters who plan to vote for Obama if they're not all the same person):
There's such a thing as just war. Of course, our current and previous popes have said the war in Iraq is unjust. But they're not teaching it as doctrine, and Catholics may differ about it. There's no such thing as a "just abortion," however. ALL abortions are gravely evil, and even if the Iraq war is unjust, it can't possibly compare to the evil done by abortion — millions upon millions of babies dying each year. The war upon the unborn has claimed more lives than all the wars the USA has fought combined! And as for this nonsense about "one-issue politics," suppose you lived in Germany at the time of Hitler, and your friend said, "Well, I don't agree with this Hitler guy's views on the Jews, but I think his stances on the economy, education, health care, etc. are spot-on, so I'm voting for him." Would you applaud your friend for being open-minded enough to look at the big picture? Surely not! You'd probably think of him as an idiot at best and a barbarian at worst! It's the same with those who vote for pro-abortion politicians because they don't believe in being "one-issue voters."
January 22, 2012 at 3:32 am
I've reached the point where I cannot talk to liberals anymore, not to liberal Catholics and not to political liberals. They are incapable of rational thought, will not acknowledge error, refuse to entertain other viewpoints, and I have concluded that talking to them is a waste of my time. I pray for them, for the Church and for the country.
January 22, 2012 at 9:44 pm
How will they learn any better if you don't talk to them?
January 22, 2012 at 2:29 pm
@Anonymous@ 12:26PM said:
"The alternative is to vote Republican……and as one democratic congressman has said: My opponents think that life begins at conception and ends at birth." One issue politics is not the way to go."
Life begins when two become one at procreation and our Creator endows an immortal soul with sovereign personhood (and unalienable rights to LIFE). Citizenship begins when the child is liberated from the womb(the umbilical cord is cut as though separation of church and state) and given FREEDOM to pursue his destiny as a person in vocation to priesthood, consecrated religious, single virgin, statesman, parent, warrior. Abortion, the Right to Choose Abortion, the edict to choose abortion has murdered all of our priests, religious, sisters, brothers, saints, and you and I are left to figure out why Obama might win reelection to king of the hill. The difference between a politician and a statesman is that the statesman works for the common good, the general welfare, and the politician works for re-election. Just look at that: Obama is worried about his image and sweats it.
January 22, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Obama has aborted all of our saints…and will abort us if allowed to usurp absolute power.
January 22, 2012 at 2:40 pm
@Dave@4:47: Hitler's trains ran on time(or you died). Hitler's death camps were very efficient, like selling aborted baby body parts for cosmetics, medical research, stem cells…a booming business, very efficient.
January 24, 2012 at 12:26 am
Wolves in sheep's clothing.
January 24, 2012 at 12:39 am
Dear 911 Park Blvd.
RE: How will they learn any better…
Proverbs 27:22, 26:11, 26:4, 23:9, 14:7, 9:8
Jeremiah 13:23
Jesus himself said:
Matthew 7:6, 15:26
John 6:44
Revelation 22:11
January 24, 2012 at 3:23 am
I feel sorry for that misguided and deluded 51%. Obviously they have nothing to offer.