John McCain and Sarah Palin urgently need your help to reach out to Catholic voters! There has never been a more important election or a more historic moment in our nation's history.
That is why the campaign is humbly asking you to please sign up today to participate in our innovative Catholic-to-Catholic Online phone bank program and make calls from the comfort of your home to fellow Catholics in key battleground states. We must have all hands on deck to make it a success and we are asking everyone to contribute a small amount of their time! Please consider making 50, 75, or 100 calls with this program over the next 3 days.
Here are the links you can use to sign-up and start calling Catholics today in Ohio, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Virginia.
Please also enjoy the quotes and stories below in regard to the Catholic vote. I hope that the courageous statements by several influential Catholic Bishops below will inspire you to continue fighting for our shared values. Thanks for all you have done so far to support Senator McCain and Governor Palin. I know they have been overwhelmed with support from Catholics across the country and they look forward to winning the Catholic vote on Tuesday, November 4th. Please forward this e-mail to your Catholic friends and ask them to sign-up with Catholics for McCain today!
Onward to Victory,
Josh Lynch
Director, Catholics for McCain
KEY QUOTES BY CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADERS
"You can ask economic questions, foreign policy questions, fiscal questions et cetera; [and these] will bubble to the surface because that's what the media are mainly paying attention to; but if you look underneath that, especially where a community looks at itself to be religiously serious - which is a majority of Americans - the thing that cuts most deeply is the culture of life questions."
-- Fr. Richard Neuhaus, editor-in-chief of First Things Magazine
"The conditions under which an individual may be able to vote for a pro-abortion candidate would apply only if all the candidates are equally pro-abortion... "When we have someone who has that stand on a disqualifying issue, then the other issues, in many ways, do not matter because they are already wrong on that absolutely fundamental issue... Abortion needs to be in our country a defining issue and we ought not be afraid to make it a defining issue because when we do that we will have an end of abortion in this country."
-- Bishop Robert Vasa of Oregon
"Could a Catholic in good conscience vote for a candidate who supports legalized abortion when there is a choice of another candidate who does not support abortion or any other intrinsically evil policy? Could a voter's preference for the candidate's positions on the pursuit of peace, economic policies benefiting the poor, support for universal health care, a more just immigration policy, etc. overcome a candidate's support for legalized abortion? In such a case, the Catholic voter must ask and answer the question: What could possibly be a proportionate reason for the more than 45 million children killed by abortion in the past 35 years? Personally, we cannot conceive of such a proportionate reason."
-- Joint Letter by Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City and Bishop Robert W. Finn of Kansas City-St. Joseph
FREEDOM OF CHOICE ACT WATCH
"...there is one thing absolutely everyone should be able to agree on: We can't reduce abortions by promoting abortion. No one who sponsors or supports legislation like FOCA [Freedom of Choice Act] can credibly claim to be part of a good-faith discussion on how to reduce abortions."
-- Cardinal Justin Rigali in a letter to Congress concerning the Freedom of Choice Act, which Barack Obama told Planned Parenthood is the first thing he would sign into law if elected president.
"One component of the Obama abortion agenda, the so-called 'Freedom of Choice Act' (FOCA, S. 1173), is coming under increased scrutiny from many quarters. The FOCA is the most sweeping piece of pro-abortion legislation ever proposed in Congress. It is a bill that would establish a federal "abortion right" broader than Roe v. Wade and, in the words of the National Organization for Women, 'sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies.'"
-- Douglas Johnson, "Unholy Messaging: Obama's faith-based try vs. his positions," National Review, 10/7/08
JOE BIDEN WATCH
Read: A PASTORAL LETTER FROM BISHOP MARTINO written by Joe Biden's bishop and read to every parish in the diocese.
ARCHBISHOP: DEMOCRATS BECOMING "PARTY OF DEATH"
"At this point, the Democratic Party risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death' due to its choices on bioethical issues, as Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in his book 'The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life.' And I say this with a heavy heart, because we all know that the Democrats were the party that helped our Catholic immigrant parents and grandparents to better integrate into and prosper in American society. But it's not the same anymore. Nonetheless, there are among Democrats some pro-lifers, but they are, unfortunately, rare."
"Archbishop Burke Laments "Party of Death," ZENIT, 9/2/08
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