I am planning on casting my vote for president this November for Alan Keyes (http://www.americasrevival.com/). I urge alll of you to do the same and tell all your friends about Alan Keyes.

I also hate the idea that if I place one issue ahead of the others, I’m a “single issue voter”. Hogwash. I care about the rest of the social teaching of the Church, but for Pete’s sake…innocent children are dying and women are being scarred through abortion. On top of that, Western civilization is being gutted of talent and dignity due to our 40 year “sex binge”.

The Leftists may yet win the Cold War…the final battles will be fought at the ballot box and the OB-GYN clincs.

Get married. Make babies. If not because it’s God’s way, then at least out of self preservation for our country and the West.

2. Senior citizens rely on Social Security in their later years. We have killed 45,000,000 potential wage earners and eliminated any chance of their procreation, creating a loss of probably 80,000,000 other potential wage earners. These 120,000,000 would be paying Social Security taxes today. When Roosevelt first started Social Security, their were over 20 people paying the tax for every recipient. Today the number is 4, and within 20 years it will be 2. Another negative effect of abortion.

3. Immigration- We are right to be concerned about illegal immigration in which every illegal immigrant commits a felony by being here. But the other side of the story is that because of abortion, we just don’t have a sufficient number of workers to man the restaurants and other small businesses that need lower paid workers (ie: students, etc.) Thus, closing the borders could have negative effects on these small businesses. One resolution to the lack of help is to increase wages paid in order to attract decent help. This in itself is inflationary.

4. Taxes-As a result of abortion, health care costs have increased by approximately $1,000,000,000 per year. And if justify abortion, then why not reject Church teachings on artificial contraception? In the 1980′s the Supreme Court upheld Roe Vs. Wade by saying that when contraception fails, a woman needs to have the ultimate resolution, abortion. Add artificial contraception to health care costs, and now the expense soars to many billions of dollars per years.

5. If we accept abortion and artificial contraception, then we accept that sexual activity is mostly about pleasure and not procreation. Then why not allow homosexual marriage? And if we review Humanae Vitae (sp), we will see that the Holy Father argued that if the use of artificial contraception became widespread, then adultery would soar and as a result, the divorce rate would soar. No one would argue that his warnings have not materialized. Also, he said that abortion numbers would dramatically increase. But 1,200,000 per year, in this country alone.

6. Racism-We have made incredible progress in the fight against racism. But blacks constitute 12% of the American population but represent 33% of all abortions. We are killing black children at about 3 times what their numbers represent. And recently, their is discussion as to why many Planned Parenthood centers are located in minority neighborhoods. I guess it’s the Sanger legacy.

7. Women’s rights-Often it is argued that abortion is neccessary to improve the lives of women. But since abortion kills over 600,000 young girls, how exactly does the plight of women improve as a result of the death of this many young women?

Catholics who vote pro-life are often accused of being single issue voters, but an analysis of this issue indicates the residual effects of this moral evil, effects which touch the lives of every American citizen, negatively.

However … I half suspect that Social Justice might be an abortion rights supporter trying to distract faithful Catholics away from what is truly important. All of us as members of this larger culture should protect the God-given right to life (first), liberty (second), and the pursuit of happiness (third), then generously support mothers and their unborn children and encourage those elements in society that strive to teach and encourage faith, virtue and holiness.

Catholics are forced to make unpleasant choices among imperfect political parties and candidates. But if I am not allowed to vote my well-formed Catholic conscience, then I am not allowed to do what I know to be good, holy and just AND I AM NOT FREE. Just because I vote for pro-life, pro-family political parties and candidates does not mean I am for the inhumane treatment of the poor and corporate greed. Moving the Democratic Party to be pro-life and pro-family is infinitely more difficult than to move the Republic Party to be more socially just. Look at the party platform!

To Social Justice, I ask: If we get to your brand of social justice through eliminating all inconvenient (unwanted) children through abortion, euthanizing our elders, undermining the family and legalizing immoral and unnatural behavior in the name of liberty, haven’t we lost it all?

It is the Democrats who continue to oppose school vouchers to give poor parents the power and funds to make good school choices for their children.

Social justice does not equal wealth redistribution by the government.

CE is not “the Church”.

Abortion is the paramount issue and the Church is right to advocate an end to it. And those who vote pro-life are not being greedy and selfish.

Also we have loss funding to help our needy brethren and to educate them. Discrimination is now the law of the land especially against our brethren who are illegal. This so called Republican party abuses these illegal workers for their own gain and then tell us that we are wasting our taxes for their health and welfare. What hypocrisy? I know of one Catholic Republican Congress Person in this diocese who blatantly expressed outright discrimination in the questionnaire mailed out the constituents.

Speaking of funding to take care of the parents who brought children into this world, there is less than ever and continue to be cut for the enrichment of the wealthy. Is the Church that naive?

Where is the Church now on Social Justice? I think it has lost its way. I do not see the so called conscience of the church when it comes to those who advocate the care of humanity – the children of God. Actions speak louder than words (lip service.)

God help the Church when it advocates voting in good conscience for candidates pandering us and do nothing or any good for the welfare of humanity and the children of God. I hate bringing it up the Church’s bad choice for the 7 years of the Bush administration that promote greed. It was obvious of Bush’s and the Republicans’ intent prior to each election.

I say let God be the judge, not the Church, for the acts that Sen Clinton, Sen. Obama, and Sen Kerry who allow abortion to stand. We need to take care of the children of God. We need to stop being greedy and selfish.

As for Prof. Kmiec and Fr. Phleger, they will have to answer to God for their choices, as will I. However, any respect I might have had for them is gone.