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by Joe Capizzi, Ph.D.
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There are some arguments the force of which I just do not get. In a Commonwealth piece, Eduardo Peñalver defends the view that Catholics should reflect on the “panoply” of social issues before they vote. Of course his point is to educate Catholics to resist the reductio ad abortion; that is, the perceived tendency of conservative Catholics to vote only for candidates who oppose legal abortion. Peñalver and others believe pro-life Republicans try to bully Catholics into voting Republican because Republicans alone are typically pro-life: thus he and others, like Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, remind Catholics that liberals are people, too, and one can be a faithful Catholic and vote Democrat.
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10/03/2006
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