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50 Bishops advocate "single-issue" voting

Thursday October 23, 2008

Categories: Bishops, Catholic, Church , Politics

...Out of 197 active diocesan bishops. (The issue is abortion, if you couldn't guess.) That's Rocco Palmo's count in the latest edition of The Tablet. He gathers his numbers from a review of interviews as well as their writings.

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Ernesto
October 23, 2008 10:26 PM
http://americaschoicenow.com/

Please consider posting this video and passing it along, it’s amazing. It’s great at showing the distinction between MaCain and Obama in regards to the abortion issue. Please pass this along to everyone you know. We have to get McCain elected… E

http://americaschoicenow.com/

“Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.”
Ronald Reagan

Rob
October 25, 2008 12:25 AM

I'm constantly amazed by the enormous number of Catholics and other Christians who seem to believe that permitting an abortion somehow requires it. Support women, and they will choose life. It's just so much easier to condemn abortion than to support women.

pagansister
October 26, 2008 9:54 PM

Guess those bishops haven't heard that the stock market has crashed, 401 K's are dropping fast, folks are out of work/or are close to losing their job, retired folks are having to go back to work, because their saving fell a lot with that market, people are losing their houses because they can no longer make payments, etc. But the bishops, who live well, don't have to worry about any of those things, so they have decided to make the choice for president based on the candidates belief on abortion!!??

Guess the bishops haven't heard the statement." It's the economy, stupid!".

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