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Hi, Gloria —
The Jesuits were wrong. Ask him this:
- If he had lived in Nazi Germany,
and Hitler were up for election,
and he knew Hitler was killing
people and that his opponent was
opposed to it (or even just
not nearly as committed to it),
and someone told him he can't
be a one-issue voter because
there were other issues
to consider like the economy,
would he vote for Hitler because
he was more likely to support
a wide range of positive issues
even if he were killing millions
of people?
The matter is very simple. Either
direct abortion is murder, or it
is not.
- If he does not believe direct
abortion is murder, he is simply
not pro-life.
- If he believes abortion is murder
but believes it is justifiable,
that's even worse.
If direct abortion is murder, it
cannot be justified under any circumstances
and no one who votes for it can be
supported unless all the other viable
candidates, support something even
worse, and it would take something
really awful to be worse than supporting
the murder of innocent children.
For example, suppose you had someone
who was not enthusiastically pro-abortion,
and his only viable opponent promised
to reduce the Middle East to a sea
of glass with nuclear weapons. That
might justify voting for the pro-abortion
candidate as the lesser evil.
- Regardless, what can anyone threaten
to do in our country today, that
would outweigh the murder of millions
of babies a year?
I fear your husband just doesn't
appreciate the gravity, enormity,
and magnitude of the abortion holocaust.
The
bottom line:
- Either
he is pro-life and believes
abortion is murder, and nothing
justifies voting for someone
who supports it, or
- he believes
abortion is not murder, in
which case he can't claim to
be pro-life.
To answer your question:
- Can a Catholic be a Democrat in light
of their ideologies?
One can vote for a Democrat if
(he|she) is a pro-life Democrat,
or if the candidate is the lesser
of two evils (i.e. is less
pro-abortion than the other candidate(s),
or the other candidate(s) support
something that well outweighs
the murder of millions of innocent
children.)
I don't think the Church has ruled
on this, but in my judgment, you
could also vote for a Democrat for
an office that is so far removed
from the abortion issue that it doesn't matter (say, a dogcatcher).
One must keep in mind that such positions
often serve as training and proving
grounds for bigger offices; you don't
want to vote for someone to be dogcatcher
if this helps them become Governor
or President.
Eric
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