Right to Life is trying to pigeonhole Catholics into voting for Bush.

[Bullshot]

At my local county fair in NW Ohio, I walked by the Right to Life booth. There, they had a bunch of bumper stickers to distribute which said something along the line of "You can't be Catholic and pro-choice." This is an obvious ploy to pressure Catholics into not voting for John Kerry this November.

OK, fine. But, I guess a good Catholic shouldn't vote for George Bush, either. The Pope and the Catholic church have both condemned Bush's war in Iraq. And I guess a good Catholic should not vote for Bush because the Pope and the Catholic church have condemned capital punishment.

I would have tactfully brought this up to anyone at the booth, but nobody was running it at the time. I probably would have had a burning cross on my front yard by tomorrow morning.

Where I live, Right to Life is so militant and so Republican, it's a joke. It's too bad most of the people in this area don't see it, too. Every election season they'll leave a pamphlet on your windshields endorsing a slate of Republicans, even though some of them are pro-choice, including our current Lieutenant Governor.

Hypocrites!

[displacedtexan]

1. You can't be Pro-Life and Pro-In Vitro Fertilization, either!

Embryos are destroyed in the process.

[redqueen]

2. I got through on C-Span right after the previous caller was hawking this

I wish I'd have written down what I meant to say, because I immediately saw red and my blood pressure spiked and forgot what I meant to ask the guy who was on. The first thing out of my mouth when I was put on was "I'm a Catholic too and I'm voting for Kerry. The Pope said that the Iraq war wasn't a just war so I don't see why one issue gets more play than the other."

Then the hostess cut me off after I garbled what I meant to say to the guy from the Atlantic. :(

Next time I need to make some notes!