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To: Ilaine who wrote (76914)10/12/2004 3:07:59 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793808
 
As for "imposing religious tenets" -- voting your conscience is not what I would call "imposing religious tenets."

You're right. Not the same thing.

At issue is whether a Catholic must vote according to the tenets of the Catholic Church, not whether he may vote his conscience. I have no objection to the latter. Can't imagine that anyone would. I have a big objection to the former.

There are two key distinctions: "must" vs "may" and "Church tenet" vs "conscience." An obligation to vote Church tenets? Doesn't that give you the creeps? Of course it is appropriate for anyone who, as a matter of conscience, finds abortion reprehensible to vote to make it illegal. Voting the dictates of the Church is another matter. This isn't Afghanistan or Iraq, after all. Civil law and religious law are not the same thing.

I do take your point that the conscience of a strict Catholic would not tolerate abortion. But until the Church enforces its tenets and as long as free-thinkers want to call themselves Catholics, there's space between the two.
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