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Originally Posted by chelsea24
I agree with Cassie. We are not running for office. I'm a Catholic and I am completely Pro-Choice. It is none of your business.
What I really don't like is the message this unwed pregnant seventeen year old sends to the young girls of this country. Very accepting parents and a gunshot wedding great! Now watch the rise in unmarried teen pregnancies. Can you just imagine if this was Obama's daughter! :yikes:
I guess it's Country First, Condoms Second (or not at all if it was up to Sarah Palin.)
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The religion of a candidate should not be a matter of political concern. Whether a politician is pro-death (as opposed to pro-life) or not, and whether that position is contrary to the politican's stated association with a religious entity (in this case, Catholicism) should solely be among the politician, his/her religious counselor/leader, and God (presuming that being religious means in believing there is a God).
Bluntly, the Roman Catholic Church has already addressed the Church's position on the subject.
... The Church's ethical opinion with regard to divorce and procured abortion is unambivalent and known to all: these are grave sins which, to a different extent and taking into account the evaluation of subjective responsibility, harm the dignity of the human person, involve a profound injustice in human and social relations and offend God himself, Guarantor of the conjugal covenant and the Author of life. ... excerpt from the Address of His Holiness Benedict XVI to Participants in an International Congress Organized by the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family,Clementine Hall, Saturday, 5 April 2008 (
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/be...o-gpii_en.html)