Abortion-Loving Catholics Still Looking For Excuses To Vote Obama

There are two kinds of liberal voter: the honest kind who admits that abortion is his most important issue in America and will never vote for a pro-life candidate no matter what, and the dishonest kind who claim that they abhor abortion, but that there are other issues more important, or other excuses not to vote against pro-abortion candidates.

The second sort includes many so-called Catholics (H/T: CVSTOS FIDEI):

In the avalanche of criticism directed at Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee, perhaps the most absurd chunks come from a corner that ostensibly concerns itself with tolerance and justice in the name of Jesus Christ. From these progressives, one hears a unique take: Sarah Palin should not be elected president because her daughter is pregnant; worse yet, she committed “apostasy” when she was 12-years-old.

The Catholic Left – notably Michael Sean Winters and Garry Wills – is part of the campaign to destroy Palin. The Catholic Left wants to provide pseudo-theological cover for Catholic liberals who wish to vote for the Democratic ticket of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, since Obama supports legalized abortion and Biden, a Catholic, opposes the Magisterium’s teaching on abortion.

Winters, a writer and political blogger for the liberal Catholic magazine America, declares Palin to be an apostate. The Los Angeles Times reported on Aug. 30 that Palin was baptized into the Catholic Church as an infant in Idaho. Soon afterward, the Times reported, Palin’s family moved to Alaska and attended the Wasilla Assembly of God Church – a Pentecostal congregation in which Palin was baptized again at 12.

Obama is the son of an unwed mother. Palin is the mother of an unwed mother. It seems a wash to me. Maybe they should consider the candidates' views on abortion?

Nah.

These guys have made their negotiated peace with abortion, what the Holy Father called a "non-negotiable" issue. These guys will oppose abortion in their own good time, after war and poverty have been cured. They may call that opposing abortion, but I call it being pro-abortion, at least for now. And they are on a glorious crusade to fool pro-life Catholics into voting for Obama.

They should hope that they are fooling no one. Because if they are, it would be better for a millstone to be tied around their necks and thrown into the sea.