Thus, there is a difference between voting for a candidate who is qualified, but has a great flaw in the viewpoint of Catholics, such as one who favors abortion, and a candidate who may or may not be qualified and worse, argues with the voter about whether their understanding of God is correct. I feel that we have examples of the latter in presidential candidate Obama and Speaker Pelosi. Pelosi's bumbling butchering of characterizing Catholic doctrine about abortion is outrageous, and her claims to be an expert when she's so pig ignorant is astonishing to say the least.
(By the way, Nancy, a "doctor" of the Church is not the author of Church doctrine. "Doctor" is a title given to a certain class of saints who acted in heroic defense of the Church during times of trial, through their intellect, example and remedies. Church "doctors" are individual saints who so distinguished themselves in an area of devotion, defense or church support that they merit a title that is much like "honorary doctorates" given out by universities today. Just because "doctor" and "doctrine" both start with "d-o-c" does not mean that one "invents" the other, duh.)
So I have voted for qualified candidates who, unfortunately, supported abortion. But I have never voted for one who has the nerve to be a self proclaimed inflated spokesperson on behalf of "what God really meant," and who then spews contrary to the institutional faith of two thousand and more years.
I need to also point out something so screamingly obvious I cannot believe that anyone is fooled by it. About the Church stance toward abortions. How can people like Pelosi with any intellectual honesty try to "scan" and cherry pick from Church teaching looking for a statement about "when life starts" when access to abortion was nill until recently? Don't get me wrong, some women have induced abortions throughout history (often through witchcraft, which is one reason witches were so hated). But very few women really sought abortion, rather, they risked their lives repeatedly having children, as children were their grace, their livelihood and support. No one except the most desperate sought abortions (in times of famine and so forth miscarriages negated the economic "justification" for abortion). But even then, obviously in times of famine, women wanted more children, more hands to help in the fields and household, not less. It was a totally different mindset than today. No one had to "put in the Bible" that abortion is wrong, because there was no mindset toward doing such an unthinkable thing. Also, remember that men and women prayed most earnestly for a child from God. When the woman became pregnant, she or her husband didn't wait to thank God until the baby popped out because "it's not a human life until x months in gestation." You know, the simple people among humans were always the wisest. I mean, duh, when they prayed to God for a child, as soon as the womb quickened and they knew of the pregnancy, they knew they had received a child from God, not a temporary lump of clay that gets a soul and a guardian angel on some man made date. God sends a baby with a guardian angel when the womb quickens with the embryo. I mean, duh, do you think God sends a "hold this place" card: "gift card must be redeemed in three months, six months, nine months?"
Stupid people need to read the Bible, and they should. But they should not then open their mouths and call themselves "experts" for their own self serving purpose, and especially when they demonstrate such ignorance of even basic information (see above about Pelosi's "Doctor Augustine.") Oh my God, what a mess this society has become, and our leaders are crap.
