“As president, I will protect the sanctity of life ...”

Mitt Romney (GOP acceptance speech)

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BlueSofia - The pledges of Mitt Romney are worthless!

Consider viewing “The Story of Mitt’s Abortion Journey”.

About Obama

@bluesofia:
Please, prove that the things written in the article never hapened.

Mr. Einstein,

Do you attend any of those “homosexual masses” mentioned or do you prefer praying in the Mosque?

OBAMA not O'Bama.

Here's a link for you.

The Three Non-Negotiable Principles of the Moral Law
according to Pope Benedict XVI1
1. Life. The protection and dignity of every human life from conception to natural death. The framework within and against which every other issue must be measured.
2012 Democratic Platform2
"The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay. We oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right." (p. 18)

"President Obama and Democrats will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers. The Affordable Care Act ensures that women have access to contraception in their health insurance plans" (p. 18)
2012 Republican Platform3
"Faithful to the 'self-evident' truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendment's protections apply to unborn children." (p. 13-14)

"We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage." (p. 13-14)

Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion and permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by enacting appropriate civil and criminal penalties on healthcare providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives an abortion, including early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions – gender discrimination in its most lethal form – and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia. We call for a ban on the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. (p.13-14)
2. Marriage & Family. The primacy of the family as the first cell of society. The protection and honor given to the faithful marriage between a man and a woman and the family built upon it.
2012 Democratic Platform
"We support marriage equality and support the movement to secure equal treatment under law for same-sex couples." (p. 18)

"We support the full repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act" (p. 18)
2012 Republican Platform
"Congressional Republicans took the lead in enacting the Defense of Marriage Act" (p. 10)

"We commend the United States House of Representatives and State Attorneys General who have defended these laws when they have been attacked in the courts." (p. 10)

"We reaffirm our support for a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman." (p. 10)
3. Authentic human freedom. Includes the first freedom, religious freedom. Bound by truth and exercised within a moral framework.
2012 Democratic Platform
"America's leadership extends beyond our economic prosperity and military might—it is also rooted in our enduring commitment to advancing a core set of universal values. These include an individual's freedom to speak their mind, assemble without fear, have access to information, worship as they please, and choose their own leaders. They also include dignity, tolerance, and equality among all people, and the fair and equitable administration of justice. The United States was founded upon a belief in these values, and people of every race, region, and religion around the globe have claimed these principles as their own." (p. 29)

"The President and the Democratic Party believe that women have a right to control their reproductive choices. Democrats support access to affordable family planning services, and President Obama and Democrats will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers. The Affordable Care Act ensures that women have access to contraception in their health insurance plans."(p. 17)

"Gay Rights as Human Rights. Recognizing that gay rights are human rights, the President and his administration have vowed to actively combat efforts by other nations that criminalize homosexual conduct or ignore abuse. Under the Obama administration, American diplomats must raise the issue wherever harassment or abuse arises, and they are required to record it in the State Department's annual report on human rights. And the State Department is funding a program that finances gay rights organizations to combat discrimination, violence, and other abuses." (p.31)
2012 Republican Platform
"The most offensive instance of this war on religion has been the current Administration's attempt to compel faith-related institutions, as well as believing individuals, to contravene their deeply held religious, moral, or ethical beliefs regarding health services, traditional marriage, or abortion. This forcible secularization of religious and religiously affiliated organizations, including faith-based hospitals and colleges, has been in tandem with the current Administration's audacity in declaring which faith-related activities are, or are not, protected by the First Amendment – an unprecedented aggression repudiated by a unanimous Supreme Court in its Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC decision." (p. 12)

"We support the ability of all organizations to provide, purchase, or enroll in healthcare coverage consistent with their religious, moral or ethical convictions without discrimination or penalty." (p. 34)

"It has been shunted aside by the current Administration at a time when its voice more than ever needs to be heard. Religious minorities across the Middle East are being driven from their ancient homelands, fanaticism leaves its bloody mark on both West and East Africa, and even among America's Western friends and allies, pastors and families are penalized for their religious convictions. We will return the advocacy of religious liberty to a central place in our diplomacy." (p. 52)
1 Pope Benedict XVI, Address to a European Parliamentary Group, 30 March 2006.
2 Democratic Platform
3 Republican Platform

www.ewtn.com/voting.asp
The Moral Theology Tradition on Voting
Since the Church's moral teaching, like her doctrinal teaching, is simply believed and taught until challenged by erroneous opinions, only over time has the Magisterium explicitly spoken on various aspects of it (e.g. contraception, abortion , euthanasia, etc.). It is normally simply handed on through catechesis, seminary formation, and in particular the common teaching of moral theologians over generations. The following resources represent that consensus.
Moral Duties Concerning Voting, Mr. Colin B. Donovan, STL (may be freely duplicated)

A Brief Catechism for Catholic Voters, Rev. Stephen Torraco (may be freely duplicated)

Where Do The Candidates Stand On Key Issues, Priests for Life

Catholics in the Public Square, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix

Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

The Participation of Catholics in Political Life, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Legal Recognition of Unions Between Homosexual Persons, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the CDF

Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), Blessed John Paul II (cf. especially para. 73)

“I could site priests (and a couple of bishops) who say
homosexual masses. I can site bishops who will
not allow parishioners to distribute pro-life
material in their dioceses”, Holy Cannoli

Hey Cannoli, before you spell check another person's
work, perhaps should you should check yours first.
A visit to SpecSavers might not be a bad idea.

Ms. Goody-2-Shoes also deleted my posts.
My message to her follows:

What i wrote was accurate but since you deleted it anyway, I will never post on another one of your threads again. You are a rude witch with little talent and a small intellect.

Do not write to me or post on any of my threads and I will also avoid you.
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By the way, the same message goes for Roman O'Bama.

oh, bluesofia keeps on deleting (reminds me of soviet union), so I'll post my answer here:

The church says to not support things that are against the law of God and his church. If there are things that are against it, it's right to point the finger on it.

I would be glad if the information in the article would be false.
If you could prove that it is false you would make me a favour...

Hey Einstein,

It's spelled Obama not O'Bama although he probably does have some Irish blood in him.

LOL

“Romney is far from perfect ...”, Holy Cannoli

MITT & ANN ROMNEY AT HOME

The above words have got to be the understatement of
the year. Mitt has done so many flip-flops he’d make an
acrobat feel dizzy. So what will the American electorate
choose on 6 November 2012, the frying pan or the fire?

The Obama administration's attack on religious liberty.

Luke 10:16 'Anyone who listens to you listens to me; anyone who rejects you rejects me, and those who reject me reject the one who sent me.' “We need, therefore, to speak frankly with each other when our freedoms are threatened. Now is such a time. As Catholic bishops and American citizens, we address an urgent summons to our fellow Catholics and fellow Americans to be on guard, for religious liberty is under attack, both at home and abroad.

This has been noticed both near and far. Pope Benedict XVI recently spoke about his worry that religious liberty in the United States is being weakened. He called it the "most cherished of American freedoms"—and indeed it is. All the more reason to heed the warning of the Holy Father, a friend of America and an ally in the defense of freedom, in his recent address to American bishops:
Of particular concern are certain attempts being made to limit that most cherished of American freedoms, the freedom of religion. Many of you have pointed out that concerted efforts have been made to deny the right of conscientious objection on the part of Catholic individuals and institutions with regard to cooperation in intrinsically evil practices. Others have spoken to me of a worrying tendency to reduce religious freedom to mere freedom of worship without guarantees of respect for freedom of conscience.
Here once more we see the need for an engaged, articulate and well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense vis-à-vis the dominant culture and with the courage to counter a reductive secularism which would delegitimize the Church's participation in public debate about the issues which are determining the future of American society. ”
United states conference of Catholic Bishop Against Obama HHS Mandate.

@bluesofia:
You have Paul Ryan, that's good, but it won't change anything as long as the real power is in the hand of anti-cristian-thinking people, I don't mean political power, that's not the real power, I mean the power behind the scenes, that's the real power: the power of money and of its several lobbies. Politicians do what they say.

Would be nice if you could delete your anti-cristian powers in the US as easy as you delete my postings...

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor Paul Ryan is 100% Catholic and Prolife and Mitt Make a pledges “As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage.”

An Sorry but you are not a Bishop and YOUR PROFILE SAID THAT YOU LIVE IN ITALY NO in the United State so let's the church give the opinion about the candidates not you

www.lifesitenews.com/news/romney-pledges-…

AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA THIS ELECTION IS MORE THAT ABORTION IS ABOUT FREEDOM OF RELIGION AND FREEDOM OF CONCIENCE AGAINST HHS OBAMA MANDATE

Updated: *191* Bishops (100% of Dioceses) Have Spoken Out Against Obama/HHS Mandate www.catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php

Americans have a choice between 2 flawed men to become the next president. These 2 men reflect the views of the electorate (many of them Catholics) who support abortion and homosexual marriage.

These beliefs are, of course, in direct opposition to traditional Church teaching. The primary reason so many Catholics hold this heterodox position and the reason that these same Catholics support candidates who also support those positions is because Catholic bishops (exceptions duly noted) are nothing more than pompous, plump, pretending, good-for-nothings who neither teach nor practice the Catholic faith themselves. All the while, Rome has synods regarding the "new evangelization" or some other useless crap while the Catholic Church itself is cursed with cowardly bishops and continues to hemorrhage members. The Catholic Church is in dire need of its own evangeliztion.

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