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Washington D.C., Sep 28, 2012 \/ 12:38 am (CNA<\/a>).- The Catholic commentators Deacon Keith Fournier and Deal Hudson, in their new column to run daily through the upcoming elections, have warned that some Catholic supporters of President Obama are misrepresenting his record.<\/p>\n

\tDeacon Fournier said \u201ctoo many Catholics and other Christians have not figured out the consequences we face on November 6, 2012 if we do not properly inform our decision on who we will elect to lead us and vote accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe and Hudson said in a Sept. 27 column at Catholic Online that despite their own differences they have joined together to \u201cdo absolutely everything we can\u201d to influence \u201cthe most important election in our lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tDeacon Fournier, the editor in chief of Catholic Online, and Hudson, the president of the Pennsylvania Catholics Network and a former Republican consultant on Catholic outreach, said that President Obama\u2019s position on abortion bothers many Catholics if they are informed about it.<\/p>\n

\tA poll from the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List reports that most Catholic swing voters said they would be less likely to vote for President Obama after learning of his vote against a law protecting babies who survive a failed abortion.<\/p>\n

\tHowever, Deacon Fournier and Hudson said, \u201cObama and his advisors are paying little attention, hoping that voters will believe the misrepresentations of their surrogates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThey cited as evidence the report of an unnamed Catholic woman who chairs her parish\u2019s pro-life committee. She said she received a scripted phone call from Catholic supporters of President Obama who denied that the pro-abortion rights president and the abortion provider Planned Parenthood support abortion.<\/p>\n

\tThe two commentators also explained the relevance of Catholic social teaching to one\u2019s choice in voting. They stressed the importance of respecting \u201cevery human life\u201d whether it is in \u201cthe womb, a wheelchair, a jail cell, a hospital room, a hospice, a senior center or a soup kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThey also weighed-in on the issue of marriage, stating that it is a union of one man and one woman, the \u201cfoundation\u201d of the family and not \u201csome social construct which can be redefined by courts or legislatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tCatholic social teaching additionally emphasizes human community and each person\u2019s social responsibilities to others, they wrote.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe social doctrine of the Catholic Church rejects a notion of \u2018freedom\u2019 which begins and ends with the isolated, atomistic person as the measure of its application,\u201d they said. Economic systems must serve the human person and the human family, with preference for the poor, while also rejecting \u201call forms of dehumanizing collectivism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tDeacon Fournier and Hudson said that the truths of Catholic social doctrine are not only for the religious, but have their basis in reason as well.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe Church calls us to offer them as leaven to be worked into the loaf of human culture,\u201d the commentators said.<\/p>\n

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