Nov 14
A Vote Against God?
If you voted for Barack Obama for president and you happen to be Catholic, then you shouldn’t take part in communion until you go to confession and get right with God, a Greenville, South Carolina priest has said.
This controversial stance, which his parishioners seem to support 9 to 1, is based on the fact that Obama supports a woman’s right to choose when it comes to abortion, which Catholics consider a form of murder.
The trouble is, many Catholic voters entered the voting booths with other things on their mind: like improving the economy, solving the situation in Iraq, and keeping the country safe from terrorism.
And I can’t help but wonder whether a vote for John McCain is somehow a vote legitimizing divorce, since McCain himself was divorced. Catholics don’t support divorce, either, though abortion is clearly the more serious issue.
If all sin is supposed to be equal in the eyes of God, I wonder who Catholics should have voted for so they could have communion without a guilty conscience?
Personally, I think abortion should never be used as a form of birth control. But I think in the cases of rape or inscest, or in cases in which the mother’s life is threatened, the option should be on the table.
I also think that because we live in a country that values freedom, including one’s right to practice his or her own religion as he chooses (or chooses not to practice), certain liberties should be available, even if I don’t happen to agree with them. That’s what freedom is all about. I don’t see it as the church’s job to tell parishioners whom they should vote for. To me, the church should be focusing its efforts on educating its members about why something like abortion is an option they should never choose.
That’s what I think a church’s job is; if the church isn’t teaching morality, no amount of pressure at the polls is going to make this a more “moral” country.
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