OK my fellow Democratic Catholic friends and friends of Democratic Catholics, it is time for us to do our moral duty, vote for Obama and encourage all of our Catholic friends, family and neighbors to do likewise.
I'm Catholic, Democrat and pro-life (in the truest sense I can be. . . anti-war, anti-poverty, anti-torture, anti-death penalty, anti-abortion [in a non-militant sense . . . bear with me my pro-choice friends], anti-f'n-up the environment, anti-racism, anti-healthcare deck stacked against you because you aren't rich and don't own seven houses . . . you get the point.)
In fact, I have an MA in theology and teach that subject in a Catholic school. And I'm sick and tired of being played into the single-issue, Republican-only, vote-this-way-or-your-conscience-be-damned, real Catholics vote "pro-life", kind of mentality. Read past the fold if you want to know my two cents about being Catholic and voting Democratic in this (and, in fact, at least the last) election.
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