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Politics : The American Spirit Vs. The Rightwing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (1659)	10/12/2004 7:13:56 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1904

LIAR. Smearvets never served with Kerry. I'm banning your evil ass. Spitting on our war heros is forbidden on this thread.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (1659)	10/12/2004 7:29:41 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1904

Guide Urges Catholics to Shun Kerry story.news.yahoo.com By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - A political guide is urging Catholics to vote against candidates who support abortion rights, stem-cell research and other "evil" issues — an appeal that could undercut Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s candidacy. Catholic Answers, an independent group based in El Cajon, Calif., expects to distribute 3 million copies of its "Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics" nationally by the end of the month. The guide urges Catholic voters to disavow candidates who support euthanasia, human cloning and gay marriage. "These five current issues concern actions that are intrinsically evil and must never be promoted by the law," the guide says. "It is a serious sin to deliberately endorse or promote any of these actions, and no candidate who really wants to advance the common good will support any action contrary to the nonnegotiable principles involved in these issues," it says. The guide also was published Tuesday in a full-page newspaper ad in USA Today. Catholics make up one-quarter of the electorate nationwide, with significant percentages in the battleground states. The guide has sparked controversy in several of these competitive states, including Pennsylvania, Colorado, Ohio and Michigan, where Catholic voters are being courted by Bush, a Methodist, and Kerry, a Roman Catholic. Karl Keating, president of Catholic Answers, said his nonprofit group is not backing any particular candidate or political party. "Our purpose is to get the Catholic moral principles out, and we leave it up to the individual reader to apply them, we hope, at every level of government," Keating said. "But we're definitely not endorsing or disendorsing any candidate." But the principles are aligned with Bush's political stands — and against most of Kerry's. As a Catholic, Kerry opposes abortion but says he can't support denying a legal right to others. And while the Democrat opposes gay marriage, he has criticized Bush's effort to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex unions. Bush campaign spokesman Kevin Madden said Bush's record is clear, and the Republican backs "a culture that welcomes and respects life." The Kerry campaign did not have an immediate comment. Catholic Answers sells books and video and audio tapes to "help teach the word of the Catholic faith." ___ On the Net: catholic.com