I was in Metairie the other day and noticed a bumper sticker that read: “You can’t be Catholic and pro-choice.”  I, immediately, thought that this was not an accurate statement.  I know plenty of Catholics who are not opposed to abortion. 

Senator Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate for vice-president, is an example of one who is pro-choice.  I have often said that if all Catholics would stick together (blacks and whites), Roe vs. Wade could be overturned.

Catholics make up about a fourth of the electorate nationwide and in many heated contested states in the Northeast and Midwest, make up to a third of all voters.

Last Sunday, in a news circulation, an article by David D. Kirkpatrick got my attention.  The headline was: “Abortion splits Catholics as election nears.” 

As the Roman Catholic Church observed its annual “respect life” Sunday, many liberal pro-choice Catholics waged a war of words over the church teaching of when life begins. 

In Scranton, Pennsylvania, every Catholic attending Mass heard a special homily about next month’s election.  Bishop Joseph Martino ordered every priest in the diocese to read a letter warning that voting for a supporter of abortion rights amounts to endorsing “homicide.”

According to the article, the head of the AFL-CIO in Missouri stormed out of a Mass because his priest had invoked Hitler’s name in condemning Democratic support for abortion rights.

Conservative Catholics consider five “non-negotiable issues” – abortion, stem cell research, human cloning, euthanasia, and same-sex marriage.  Those issues are some of the same that God’s Word says are non-negotiable.

Is the Catholic Church the only one divided on this most important issue?  No.  All Protestant denominations have the same problems.  The question really is:  “Can you be pro-choice in any denomination and be a Christian?”

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