Does the Catholic church recommend candidates for public office

The answer is Yes, Catholic bishops and pastors recommend their parishioners vote for the candidates who identify themselves as prolife candidates regardless of their stand on other issues. Because of their stand on other issues these candidates as public officials have brought unwarranted hardship upon law abiding immigrants and finically disadvantaged Americans, and has worked to the disadvantage of all Americans. Here are a few examples.

1. On the border: The unconscionable practice of taking minor children from their parents after their family has crossed the border into the United States most certainly causes irreparable phycological trauma to these children. This practice as well as the other practices listed here are not the work of 2 or 3 public officials. This could not be accomplished without the authority and support of an entire political party. The officials of this party are the same officials who identity themselves as Prolife Candidates. These Officials and Candidates enjoy the full support of the Catholic church. The practices listed here clearly violate the first and most important commandment of Christianity - the commandment to love God and love your neighbor as yourself. The Bible tells us this commandment is the foundation of all Christianity and no commandment is greater.
   

2. Government officials have places razor sharp wire at specific locations along our southern border known to be crossing points for immigrants. Men, Women, and Children have received severe cuts crawling through such wire. The wire has no strategic value in protecting our border, but would seem to be deployed for the purpose of cruelty only. By recommending these officials the Catholic church is seen as supporting this cruel and inhumane practice.
   

3. Deportation: The United States has deported immigrants with no criminal record to prisons outside of the united states where they will be incarcerated for the rest of their life's For having done nothing illegal. Government officials have intentionally selected prisons where inmates are abused and tortured. These same officials have refused to return immigrants who were transported to those prisons by mistake. These officials have sought internment camps where inmates would be exposed to attacks by alligators or sharks. Some of these practices have been temporarily stopped due to public outcry but will likely continue in the future. For the past 20 years or more immigrants have been informally invited to enter the united states without documentation by offers of employment combined with laws which allow them to remain and work in the United States indefinitely, yet they are treated inhumanly by elected officials who claim to be Prolife. The entire mass incarceration and deportation effort is basically unnecessarily at any rate, since the same goals can be accomplished by preventing employers from employing undocumented workers and imposing stiff penalties if they do. Almost all undocumented immigrants present in United States are here for the purpose of employment.
   

4. Poverty: The same political party that identifies itself as Prolife has caused the closure of many rural hospitals and cut off life saving medical care to thousands of American citizens living in poverty.
   

5. Revenge: All Christians know that vengeance is for the Lord and for the Lord only. This same political party has allowed its members to take revenge against other political leaders simply for being a political opponent or for criticizing official actions. Governors, Judges, Mayors, members of Congress, election officials and even School board members have had their physical safety and their political careers threatened.
   

6. Democracy: Political leaders who have well founded knowledge in these matters tell us there is a movement taking shape in the United States to transform our democracy into a strong arm oligarchy. A military backed oligarchy would bring tremendous hardship to the lives of millions of Americans and may be impossible to break out of the for generations to come. Americans will expect Churches of every denomination to do what they can to prevent such hardship from falling upon American citizens.

By encouraging its members to be single issue voters the catholic church finds itself inadvertently giving support to inhumane practices. Which are the opposite from the kind of work that church wants to accomplish. Pope Francis has told Catholics not to be single issue voters. This practice leads to a violation of the greatest of all commandments.

Should Your Christians Neighbor ask the Christian church to discontinue its practice of recommending candidates for public office? We will ask our members.

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Should we ask the Church?

• Yes
• No