Archbishop John Myers tells us about "Proportionate Reasons"

Fr. Greeley and any others who misconstrue the Church's teaching regarding those who support the genocidal murder of innocent children should take note - this is a teaching moment:

What are "proportionate reasons"? To consider that question, we must first repeat the teaching of the church: The direct killing of innocent human beings at any stage of development, including the embryonic and fetal, is homicidal, gravely sinful and always profoundly wrong. Then we must consider the scope of the evil of abortion today in our country. America suffers 1.3 million abortions each year--a tragedy of epic proportions. Moreover, many supporters of abortion propose making the situation even worse by creating a publicly funded industry in which tens of thousands of human lives are produced each year for the purpose of being "sacrificed" in biomedical research.

Now we get to the crux of the matter, which is explained in easy to understand terms (at least for those whose minds have not yet been clouded):

Thus for a Catholic citizen to vote for a candidate who supports abortion and embryo-destructive research, one of the following circumstances would have to obtain: either

(a) both candidates would have to be in favor of embryo killing on roughly an equal scale or

(b) the candidate with the superior position on abortion and embryo-destructive research would have to be a supporter of objective evils of a gravity and magnitude beyond that of 1.3 million yearly abortions plus the killing that would take place if public funds were made available for embryo-destructive research.

Now lest those of Catholic Action Network, and other such persuasions still not understand, Archbishop Myers will try and make it even more clear:

Certainly policies on welfare, national security, the war in Iraq, Social Security or taxes, taken singly or in any combination, do not provide a proportionate reason to vote for a pro-abortion candidate.

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