Life Voting Bulletin Inserts
Right to Life--Exercise Your Christian Duty to Vote
Are Christians supposed to withdraw from the world or change the world? Christ told us to make disciples of all nations. One way we do this is to vote, and to elect candidates whose views reflect God's laws. We believers are not second-class citizens; we have a voice! Don't stay home on election day. Exercise your Christian duty to vote! corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Government Involvement
Some candidates for public office claim that the government should not be involved in abortion. But the government got too involved in abortion the day it presumed to have the right to remove protection from unborn human beings. The first purpose of government is to protect the lives of its people. Nobody who would deliberately fail to do that is worthy of public office. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--No Separation
Election Day is approaching. We acknowledge that Jesus is Lord of our lives at every moment, including the moment we enter the voting booth. The same hands raised up to Him in prayer are the hands that pull down the levers when we vote! Let there be no separation, then, between your beliefs and your voting decisions! corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Power Over Life and Death
Some political candidates think abortion has nothing to do with their job. But abortion is legal only because the government has decided that some human beings are not protected by the Constitution. Do we really want to elect people who think the government has that kind of power over life and death? Think about it. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Represent All People
Some pro-abortion politicians defend their position by saying they have to represent all the people. The irony is that by allowing abortion, they fail to represent the people still living in the womb. Be sure you know where candidates stand on abortion. After all, if a politician can't respect the life of a little baby, how is he supposed to respect yours? Right to Life is Primary. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life—Priorities
In every election, there are many issues to consider. Yet unless people can first be born, there are no issues, and no people to talk about them. Every right we have flows from the right to life. In choosing those who will lead us, therefore, no issue can be more important than abortion, and the unborn children are included in our Constitution Preamble which states that the Constitution is "…for ourselves and our posterity…" and unborn humans are flesh and blood posterity who are protected just like you and me. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Uphold God's Laws
Give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, but to God what belongs to God. In this familiar Gospel passage, our Lord said the coin belongs to Caesar because it bears his image. What, then belongs to God? That which bears His image, namely, human life – including our youngest brothers and sisters in the womb! Let's vote for candidates who will uphold the laws of God. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Where Candidates Stand
Many candidates for public office claim to serve the public, but ignore unborn children who are killed daily by abortion. These candidates speak glowingly of human rights, but ignore the right to life. Be sure you know where candidates stand on abortion. After all, if a politician can't respect the life of a little baby, how is he supposed to respect yours? corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Every Vote Counts
As our bishops have said, "Every voice matters in the public forum; every vote counts." We need to use our vote to advance the culture of life. Sometimes candidates for local office say that their positions on moral issues like abortion don't matter. But they do, because they measure a person's character. Besides, those in local office tend to move up to higher office. And if a politician can't respect the life of a little baby, how's he supposed to respect yours? Don't miss out on voting. Find out who is running, and where they stand on life issues, by going to corpuschristirighttolife.com, and call your friends and those in your Church groups, and remind them to vote as well.
Right to Life--Limited Government Authority
In one of the most powerful quotes of any religious body, the US bishops wrote the following words in Living the Gospel of Life, "When American political life becomes an experiment on people rather than for and by them, it will no longer be worth conducting. We are arguably moving closer to that day." They are referring to what happens when government claims authority over the right to life, pretending to be able to authorize abortion and euthanasia, and tampering with destructive embryonic research and human cloning. The great American experiment is one based on the fact that no government can ever have this kind of authority. Any political entity of any value exists for the human person, not the other way around. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life-- Is Not Secret Discipleship.
A preacher once wrote that there is no such thing as secret discipleship. Either the discipleship will destroy the secrecy, or the secrecy will destroy the discipleship. That's why being pro-life cannot just be a personal, private conviction. If it's in our heart, it needs to be on our lips and in our actions. Each person is one person, not many. We each have a single conscience, and will have a single judgment on the last day. Our bishops put it this way in "Living the Gospel of Life," "Nor can we practice the Gospel of life only as a private piety. American Catholics must live it vigorously and publicly, as a matter of national leadership and witness, or we will not live it at all." corpuschcristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life—Is Not Just a Catholic Issue
The US bishops wrote in Living the Gospel of Life, "The inherent value of human life, at every stage and in every circumstance, is not a sectarian issue any more than the Declaration of Independence is a sectarian creed." From the start of the abortion war in America, the other side tried to label it as a Catholic issue, and they still use that strategy. Yet nobody complains that laws against stealing are a Catholic issue -- despite the fact that the prohibition on stealing is in the Bible, on the lips of Jesus, and in the Catholic Catechism. Yet people realize that certain standards of right and wrong transcend religious belief and belong to our common moral heritage. The right to life is one of them. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Catholic Voting Priorities
The US bishops wrote in Living the Gospel of Life, "[A]bortion and euthanasia have become preeminent threats to human dignity because they directly attack life itself, the most fundamental human good and the condition for all others. They are committed against those who are weakest and most defenseless, those who are genuinely ‘the poorest of the poor.’" In the light of this statement, nobody should ever try to minimize the central importance of the abortion problem simply because there are other issues. To equate all issues as having equal importance contradicts not only the words of the bishops, but ordinary common sense. We decide priorities every day. And when it's a choice between improving life or preserving it, the priority is obvious. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--Reflect Christ's Truth
The US bishops wrote, in "Living the Gospel of Life,""[W]e call on U.S. Catholics, especially those in positions of leadership … to recover their identity as followers of Jesus Christ and to be leaders in the renewal of … respect for … life." For a believer, following Jesus Christ is the center around which all the other elements of life revolve. One might be a Christian husband or wife, a Christian politician, or a Christian student -- but in each case, being a Christian is primary. That does not mean that a person divides his or her life between being a Christian and being any of those other things; rather, it means that all other roles are carried out in a manner that reflects Christ's truth. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life--A Republic is guided by law
John Adams, our second President, wrote these words: "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." Other Founding Fathers said the same, basically because they did not establish a democracy. Instead, they established a republic. In a democracy, what the majority says, goes, and if the majority were to say that murder is OK, it would be OK. A republic, however, is based not on the rule of the majority, but on the rule of law. And the highest law is the law of God. In a republic, certain things are beyond the reach of the majority, and basic wrongs can never be declared right. "The Right to Life" is the law of our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, and in the 5th and 14th Amendments of our Constitution. Let's elect people who understand the difference between a democracy and a republic, and who will promise to uphold the most important law of our country. corpuschristirighttolife.com for political party’s and candidates positions, and voting information.
Right to Life—Vote and Witness
Over 3,000 unborn babies are killed every day in the United States. Jesus told us that what we fail to do for His least ones we fail to do for Him. Please join other pro-life friends at the abortuary at Crosstown and Morgan on Tuesdays from 8:00AM to 10 AM to pray mothers will not kill their babies and voters will vote only for candidates who will honor their oath of office to protect all innocent humans. Go to web site corpuschristirighttolife.com for more pro-life information and candidates and party positions.
Right to Life—Voting Obligation
A Catholic's obligation is to cast the vote that will best advance the culture of life. When advancing the culture of life isn't possible, our obligation is to cast the vote that would best protect the culture of life. And if that's not possible, our obligation is to cast the vote that will do the least harm to the culture of life. Go to corpuschristirighttolife.com
for information on 'Right to Life' issues and candidates and party's positions.