Kansas Bishops and the Supreme Knight Speak out

Kansas Bishops and the Supreme Knight Speak out
cinops be gone Saturday, Aug. 24, 2008
This V.I.P. letter persuades Catholics, especially Knights, to be directly involved in the election process. For Orange County, California, this includes the passage of the marriage and parental notification ballot measures 8 and 4, and the defeat of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez.

No Compromises: Kansas Bishops Declare Voting
For Abortion Candidate is “Evil”:
By Peter J. Smith, Kansas City, August 12, 2008 (LIfesiteNews.com) – A vote for a politician who supports abortion and same-sex “marriage” is nothing less than casting a vote for “evil” says a state conference of Catholic bishops.

In a voter’s guide released for the second time since 2006, the Kansas Catholic Bishops made it clear that Catholics would “commit moral evil” by voting for a candidate who embraces abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning and same-sex “marriage,” when a morally acceptable candidate is available.

The voter’s guide signed by Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas, bishops Ronald Gilmore of Dodge City, Paul Coakley of Salina, and Michael Jackels of Wichita sends a strong message to Catholics that advancing pro-abortion candidates and their aims is incompatible with the Catholic Faith. The statement means trouble not only for Catholic politicians like pro-abortion US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but also for the conservative Catholic Doug Kmiec, a well known constitutional law professor who endorsed Obama as a “natural” for the Catholic vote.

Supreme Knights of Columbus Calls for Real “Change”
On Abortion and Catholic Revolt against Obama Nation!

By Peter J. Smith, Quebec City, Canada, August 7, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) Supreme Knight Carl Anderson addressed the 126th annual convention of the Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal organization, in Quebec City and pledged the Knights to fight abortion promoting politicians, who buy Catholic votes with their stand on other issues….
Anderson then committed the Knights to “end the political manipulation of Catholic voters by abortion advocates,” whom he accused of entangling “Catholic people with abortion killing.”…
“It is time to stop creating excuses for pro-abortion candidates. Catholics should no longer be asked to be partners in the abortion regime by voting for politicians who support abortion.”
“We will never succeed in building a culture of life if we continue to vote for politicians who defend and support a culture of death,” said Anderson to thunderous applause from the assembly. “It’s time that Catholics shine a bright line of separation between themselves and all those politicians of every political party who defend the abortion regime of Roe v. Wade.” …
In 2006, Pelosi and other pro-abortion leaders of the Democratic Party regained power in Congress by running a handful of pro-life Democrats and wooing back Catholic voters who supported George Bush on abortion and other social issues in 2004. However, Andersen says that this elections cycle the Knights are determined to send both Democrats and Republicans this message:
The pro-life is a Catholic vote and abortion advocates need not apply.

“Imagine if this year millions of Catholic voters simply said ‘no’ – ‘no’ to every candidate of every political party who supports abortion.” he declared. “It’s time we stop accommodating pro-abortion politicians, and it’s time we start demanding that they accommodate us.” Please forward this letter to all Knights.
George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and translate into Spanish and Vietnamese.