There has been no shortage of outcry from me against the pro-death policies of both Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. I’ve discussed Obama’s support of legalized and accessible abortion, as well as McCain’s ambivalence toward the same issue. Yet there remain many Catholics who steadfastly proclaim McCain their man. An issue that has generally caused McCain supporters to either abscond from it or to downplay it is that of federal sanctioning and funding of embryonic stem cell research. While some Catholic bloggers have stretched credulity to the point of tearing in their efforts to extend benefit of doubt to McCain or to fictionalize some sort of misty character present in the man’s politics, Jay Anderson has shown that a Catholic who is a self-proclaimed conservative can still think clearly on this issue and can recognize that a vote for McCain involves cooperation in the evil of murder. And when it comes to funding the murder of humans in a scientific lab at a rate that will eventually dwarf that of the murder of humans in the womb, there is no such thing as a “lesser evil” in voting. While Catholics who support McCain will attempt to divert attention away from embryonic stem cell research (much like those who support Obama do so with respect to abortion), it’s important to remember that Catholic faith is supposed to trump political persuasion. A vote for McCain (or Obama) is a concession to the culture of death; it’s not placing a limit on evil.
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