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The reason is because the Bishops (those are the ones we are supposed to listen to) have made it clear on the subject of voting. \u00a0Be informed by the Church. \u00a0You can\u2019t vote to support intrinsic evil. \u00a0If a candidate supports intrinsic, grave evil, you shouldn\u2019t vote for him or her. \u00a0If there is no choice, and the candidates each have their own evils they support, you can take the extraordinary measure of just not voting (and that includes voting for a hopeless or pointless candidate), or vote for the one least like to do the most harm or most likely to impact the greater good.<\/p>\n

Pretty simple stuff, huh? \u00a0But you see, that\u2019s the trick in some areas of Catholicism. \u00a0Many Catholics are content doing their best. \u00a0Living as they see in light of their faith. \u00a0Trying to make sense of things. \u00a0Sometimes the Church doesn\u2019t help in that. \u00a0As Mark himself said years ago, the Catholic Church does have an incorrigible knack for obscuring beautiful \u2013 or even useful \u2013 truths with confusing terminology. \u00a0Or sometimes what I call Catholic unspeak, the never quite getting around to saying it plain and simple.<\/p>\n

But there are those, and many seem to dwell in the world of Catholic apologetics and the blogosphere, who aren\u2019t content with doing their best. \u00a0They seem to want to hedge their approaches by destroying any other view or interpretation. \u00a0Sometimes, as in the move to abolish the death penalty, the ball is in your court if that\u2019s what you want to see happen. \u00a0Sometimes it\u2019s a battle over the way something is interpreted. \u00a0But in cases like this, where the Church is clear about the acceptability of possible approaches, then what does that proud-to-be-obedient Catholic do who really doesn\u2019t agree with the Bishops\u2019 teaching? <\/p>\n

Well, attack, that\u2019s what. \u00a0Declare that you have to read between the lines, or guessed what the ninth inner secret circle of what the Bishops really intend to mean actually is. \u00a0Or simply say you\u2019ll probably burn in Hell, but I\u2019m not saying so (assuming Hell actually exists). <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, these posts aren\u2019t bad for that. \u00a0They\u2019re bad because like drawing puss from a wound, they seem to draw out those proud individuals, many Catholic, who proclaim their contempt for America (or Murka as it\u2019s known), Democracy, Voting, or anything else that those schmucks called veterans fought and died for over the years. <\/p>\n

I try to refrain from commenting, but when the verbal urinating on the country my kids are stuck inheriting gets too bad, and when I realize it\u2019s just this sort of asinine attitude that is actually helping us to the very direction everyone complains about, I have to say something. \u00a0So I did. \u00a0Consider it said.<\/p>\n

BTW, kudos to TMLutas, who approaches these posts with a grace and dignity that once defined the blog, but now is a rare exception.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"