Voting Catholic
What if all the candidates from whom I have to choose are pro-abortion? Do I have to abstain from voting at all? What do I do?
Obviously, one of these candidates is going to win the election. Thus, in this dilemma, you should do your best to judge which candidate would do the least moral harm. However, as previously explained, you should not place a candidate who is pro-capital punishment (and anti-abortion) in the same moral category as a candidate who is pro-abortion.
Faced with such a set of candidates, there would be no moral dilemma, and the clear moral obligation would be to vote for the candidate who is pro-capital punishment, not necessarily because he is pro-capital punishment, but because he is anti-abortion.
posted by Moderator @ 2:43 PM
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2 Comments:
None of these 3 candidates are pro-life. McCain has changed his stance more than once, so how can we know. Also If the running mate they choose is also pro abortion or pro choice what do you do? I supppose if the running mate they choose is pro-life that might help the delima some, though the V.P. has absolutely no real power expcept to head the Senate and vote only in a tie.
Where are people like us to go and choose??
So the dilema goes on, doens't it.
If you follow the advice of Fr. Torraco, the choice is clear as to who is the only candidate you can vote for and that is McCain. The other two are dramatically pro-abortion advocates whereas McCain, as a fence-sitter, poses the greatest opportunity for good.
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