Vote Pro-Choice and Go to Hell

Sorted under anti-choice extremism, religion on March 3, 2008

pro-choice cartoon

Oh, the Catholic church is at it again with their preposterous shenanigans. Catholic bishops, being the men who form the delusions of speaking directly with god and informing others of his word, are going down their list of damnation and letting us all know that the latest memo says that reproductive rights trump everything.

Bishops have not only taken a poll, saying that all politicians who believe in a woman’s right to choose are going to hell, but if you vote for them, you have a seat reserved right next to them.

“It is important to be clear,” the bishops said in a 44-page statement titled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” “that the political choices faced by citizens not only have an impact on general peace and prosperity but also may affect the individual’s salvation.” Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, chairman of the committee that drafted the statement, put those high-minded sentiments into plain English earlier this month. Support for a candidate who “espouses policies that are gravely immoral” is possible “only under exceptional circumstances that are hard to imagine,” he told the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn.”

But that isn’t all! Not only do these bishops condemn you to hell if you vote for a politician who upholds women’s rights, but you are also helping us follow in the footsteps of the Nazis:

“In our country we have, for the most part, allowed the party of death and the court system it has produced to eliminate, since 1973, upwards of 40 million of our fellow citizens without allowing them to see the light of day,” wrote Rockford, Ill., Bishop Thomas Doran in 2006. “No doubt, we shall soon outstrip the Nazis in doing human beings to death.” He continued, “We know…that adherents of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.”

Note: “The party of death” sure is clever and ranks up there on my list of “Funny things Catholics say for kicks while in the process of using scare tactics for conversion.”

I cannot even imagine how those who have family who had been tortured and killed during the Holocaust feel about now being compared to those who performed the torture and killing of their ancestors by a group of people who protect pedophiles and actually aided the Nazis. I suppose we have come a long way, however, since the Catholic church is now actually admitting that the Holocaust even happened; but the hypocrisy that spews from the mouths of these people every time they deem something immoral is becoming a bit more than I can handle.

The moral of this story, and the new law that god told the bishops to relay to all of us peons who do not get to speak with him directly, is that now to gain entry into heaven, even if we do everything else so-called “correctly,” if we vote pro-choice, we’re spending eternity in hell. Nice. I wonder what else god has in store for us in the coming years.

“This just in: All people who are interested in spending eternity in heaven with the pedophile priests all must wear clown noses and hop on one foot for an entire year.”



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  • Paul A. Buechler
    Bradhart had it right. Pro abortion "Catholics" should leave the Catholic Church and join a religion more in keeping with their views.
    Let's have complete honesty. If you believe the fetus in the womb may or may not be human but it's OK to abort it in the hope that it's really just a glob of tissue - that's your call, but that's not Catholic teaching. Give up the "comfort" of being a Catholic and proclaim your "here I stand" to the world. You'll have plenty of new non-Catholic friens who will welcome you.
  • It is fine to disagree with church rules and regs, but following them is not optional. It never has been. If you don't follow the rules the pope, your cardinal, your bishop or priest layout for you, then there are grounds for excommunication. This is a good part of what led to the reformation.

    If the Pope, the earthly voice for god in the Catholic Church, says abortion is against god's law, then it is according to you your religious doctrine. If the Pope says it is wrong the Cardinals and Bishops have ever right to withhold communion and confession or even excommunicate you, thus granting you a one way ticket to hell upon death. The last half dozen Popes minimally have all said abortion and its advocacy goes against God's laws.

    Do I believe abortion or being gay for that matter is wrong? No, but I don't believe in God, much less the pope being his earthly voice for him either. However for someone to come out and say I am a catholic, and I will do or say what ever I want and be unrepentant about it seems awfully hypocritical.
  • I'm also a Catholic, but I'm a pro-choice! To be honest, there are some rules in the church the I disagree with. It doesn't mean because I'm a pro choice, I'll go to hell?! This laws are only made by human, if God includes that in his preaching, I will believe then.
  • For the record, I am very pro-choice, but I am very anti-hypocrite
  • If what you say is true then you just pretending at being catholic. You don't get to ignore the parts that are distasteful and still get to be catholic. Didn't you learn you learn anything in Catechism class, especially on absolution, no matter the priest says, being unavailable to to the unrepentant?

    You seemed to be involved in the same kind of hypocrisy by following your own path and calling yourself catholic as the church is for protecting pedophiles. Never believe you get to claim that right under the same double standard, it is pure hubris. No matter what you believe or feel, the church requires you act a very particular way if you are to receive its benefits. That means following every teaching in the catechism from the priest being your link to god, to unrepentant sinners not being absolved of their sins, to the infallible pope being the earthly voice of god. For the catholic church it is an all or nothing deal.

    If you want to change the church, you do it by leaving en mass and making your reasons heard loud and clear as you make a very public exit.

    It is time for people to quit pretending and start protesting! If enough American catholics leave the church the pope will have no recourse but to start making reconciliations to you. If you and others claim to truly have found your own link to god, then he needs you a lot more you need him.
  • I'm a Catholic but I don't always trust priests. I have my own beliefs and have a personal love affair with God. It's really sickening that priests = pedophiles and bishops = nazi financiers. There's nothing wrong with Catholicism itself, its leaders have just made too many wrong decisions in choosing its people.
  • I love the cartoon. It says so much in just a few words. How sad it is that so many of the leaders of our country feel that it's within their rights to decide the limitations of our control over our bodies.
  • As an ex-catholic and current disbeliever I get irritated with catholics who want to still be catholic but bitch and moan about everything the church does. it seems to me you are complete hypocrites for wanting to take communion when you refuse to accept that in its infinite wisdom father church says you are wrong.

    If confessing and getting something to eat on sunday mornings is this important to you get a blog and go get a sample cookie from krogers, there is never a line and no one to make you feel bad for having done so.
  • I'm Roman Catholic, but I'm also pro-choice. It's where I and the Church disagree, among other things like homosexuality.
  • Feel free to post some of your political opinions in poetry form on my website. It would be an honor. Peace
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