A conundrum for pro-life Republicans?

I wonder what Brock thinks. (0.00 / 0)

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by: Patrick @ Sat Jan 26, 2013 at 02:24:42 AM UTC

Important but not that difficult (0.00 / 0)

I would much rather have Senator Lynch than Senator Markey for those very reasons.  However, to believe for a moment that Lynch will defy his party, it's platform, and its activists that provide the pro-abortion heart & soul of his party in any meaningful measure is folly.  I certainly would appreciate Lynch's personal convictions but the pragmatic effect of another Democrat, even a more palatable Democrat in the United States Senate is a bolstering of the enemies of a Culture of Life.

Assuming Scott Brown runs again for the same office we have a professed pro-choice Republican who has a rather startling pro-life record, and was endorsed by pro-life organizations, such as Massachusetts Citizens for Life, for such.  Likewise, Scott was opposed by NARAL, who endorsed Elizabeth Warren.

A second Senate special election victory would have a pro-choice Republican, with a record of voting pro-life, caucusing with a party that is overwhelmingly pro-life in its platform, policy, and activists.  

Of the two options in this scenario my choice is clear as is my conscience.

I need no further justification than the Papal encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, that is The Gospel of Life, by Pope John Paul the Great, which calls for us to live & vote for a Culture of Life.  That teaching does not require us to fall upon our idealistically principled swords but rather allows for us to vote for the candidate, even if imperfect, who would ultimately be more viable to do the greater good towards advancing, even if by steps and not leaps, a Culture of Life.

Would I wish former Senator turned Senatorial candidate Brown agreed with me more fully on this issue?  Absolutely!  However, there is no conundrum for this pro-life Catholic Christian voter.  While I would certainly encourage and lobby newly re-elected Senator Scott Brown to embrace my pro-life culture his practical and pragmatic affect would be such that my conscience could rest well having him represent We, the People here in the Commonwealth once again.

A greater quandary would be be if a Scott had serious, legitimate opposition in the Republican primary as the the calculus for the pro-life Republican voter is more difficult and hinges more on the viability of the campaign and electability of the opponent in the primary.

Surely, the establishment of my desired Culture of Life is actually non-partisan and apolitical but that is a goal, a utopia, for which we strive but - regrettably - will never be realized but only approached ever closer.  Life must be the preeminent issue upon which all other political issues descend and as such a voter - a pro-life voter - must always weigh how best to ultimately protect and defend life from the moment of conception through natural death.  As we live in the real world, the City of Earth and not the City of God, a pro-lifer must do what his fully formed conscience compels him to do in perpetual approach of that Culture.  While imperfect, Scott Brown would be a closer advance to a Culture of Life than would Senator Lynch.

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by: BNCordeiro @ Sat Jan 26, 2013 at 03:20:01 AM UTC

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I'll Vote the Republican, No Matter What. (0.00 / 0)

Just like our friends over at the other playground: I would vote for a complete slime ball if it will help us gain the majority.  It wouldn't matter much how a New England fence sitter voted anyway, because we would set the agenda.

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by: geo999 @ Sat Jan 26, 2013 at 17:20:24 PM UTC

That is the difference between you and me... (0.00 / 0)

...I voted for Weld over Silber and I would do it again in a nanosecond.

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by: Simple J. Malarkey @ Sat Jan 26, 2013 at 19:47:24 PM UTC

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How about in a Congressional race (0.00 / 0)

Would you vote for Brown over Lynch?

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by: John Howard @ Sat Jan 26, 2013 at 22:41:07 PM UTC

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The difference between you and me (0.00 / 0)

...is that I can understand context. So when I see the words "gain the majority", I comprehend that the writer is discussing the legislative, and not the executive, branch of government.

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by: geo999 @ Sun Jan 27, 2013 at 03:47:53 AM UTC

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