Posted by
Board Certified M.D. on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:27:48 PM
Missouri is a Battleground State where
McCain and 0bama are currently tied and has 11 electoral votes while Kansas has 6 electoral votes! In both States 20% of the Population is Roman Catholic. 1.1 million Catholics in Missouri and 500,000 in Kansas.
Abortion is the fundamental issue for Catholics in the presidential campaign, said Archbishop Joseph Naumann, of the
Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas(satellite city to Kansas City, Missouri), in a visit Tuesday night to Kansas University’s Dole Institute of Politics.
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Naumann said this election was part of a battle for the soul of our society, and warned that bowing to pressure from pro-abortion or pro-gay marriage groups could lead down the road to totalitarianism, because democracy could “(devolve) into the will of the majority trampling on the rights of the” minority.
“If liberty becomes distracted from truth, it leaves society vulnerable to totalitarianism,” he said. “Remember, Hitler was elected.”
Naumann’s speech left many audience members inspired.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann
, said other problems facing the United States today, including the war in Iraq, should be considered less important than the right to life.
- "The church in the United States always cherished its rights and its responsibility to form the moral (conscience) of the country,” he said during his visit at University of Kansas' Dole Institute of Politics.
- Naumann did not endorse a specific candidate however.
- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is an abortion supporter......