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By the time this column is read, the 2024 election will be decided. Or nearly so. And since what I say will affect no one’s vote, and I don’t know the outcome as I write, I can be candid. Simply put: My wife, our youngest son (who lives with us), and I all voted on Tuesday against the Democratic Party ticket at every level. The Republican candidate for president was an eccentric, blustering narcissist. But his opponent, her political party, her running mate, her celebrity supporters, and the corrupt national media that consistently covered for her inadequacies were worse.
Her party branded scores of millions of ordinary citizens as “garbage” and “fascist.” This, while cynically calling for national unity. And the Democratic candidate’s addiction to abortion was both defining and repugnant.
We all have a duty to follow our conscience. Many good people no doubt found a way to vote differently from my own family. That’s for God to judge. But the right to kill a developing human child in the womb is now, quite clearly, a core value of America’s “progressive” elite. The party of Al Smith and the once-Catholic working class is now the party of abortion clinics; the party that turns the chopping up of an unborn human being into a private real estate issue.
Some quiet reading of Genesis 19 might be in order
As Christians, we can’t avoid political engagement. It’s a duty of our citizenship. More importantly, we have a Gospel obligation to be a leaven for good in society. Politics involves the acquisition and use of power, and power always has a moral dimension. And law always embodies someone’s idea of right and wrong.
Continued below.
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Her party branded scores of millions of ordinary citizens as “garbage” and “fascist.” This, while cynically calling for national unity. And the Democratic candidate’s addiction to abortion was both defining and repugnant.
We all have a duty to follow our conscience. Many good people no doubt found a way to vote differently from my own family. That’s for God to judge. But the right to kill a developing human child in the womb is now, quite clearly, a core value of America’s “progressive” elite. The party of Al Smith and the once-Catholic working class is now the party of abortion clinics; the party that turns the chopping up of an unborn human being into a private real estate issue.
Some quiet reading of Genesis 19 might be in order
As Christians, we can’t avoid political engagement. It’s a duty of our citizenship. More importantly, we have a Gospel obligation to be a leaven for good in society. Politics involves the acquisition and use of power, and power always has a moral dimension. And law always embodies someone’s idea of right and wrong.
Continued below.
Some Notes on Resistance - The Catholic Thing
Francis X. Maier: Millions of Americans remain religious. But our nation’s leadership class is increasingly technocratic and materialist.
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