Voting Made Easy

Here's a voter's guide for "serious Catholics." It has been ordered in bulk by 1500 parishes across the country, including 50,000 copies distributed within the St. Louis archdiocese. It lists five "non-negotiable issues": abortion, euthanasia, cloning, embryonic stem cell research, and homosexual marriage. It instructs Catholics to rank the candidates based on their positions on "these non-negotiable principles," and warns that they should not vote "for candidates who are right on lesser issues but who will vote wrongly on key moral issues. One candidate may have a record of voting in line with Catholic values except, say, for euthanasia. Such a voting record is a clear signal that the candidate should not be chosen by a Catholic voter, unless the other candidates have voting records even less in accord with these moral norms."

Rob