LifeNews.com  If The US Bishops Were Allowed By Law To Endorse Presidential Candidates, there Are 5 Reasons Why Voting for Obama Is Gravely Immoral andContrary To The Roman Catholic Faith. As responsible Roman Catholicvoters we must examine the important issues and see what Senator BarackObama would do as President of the United States. For Roman Catholics,there are five non-negotiable issues. If a candidate supports any ofthese issues, you may not vote for them. These five current issuesconcern actions that are intrinsically evil and must never be promotedby the law. Intrinsically evil actions are those that fundamentallyconflict with the moral law and can never be deliberately performedunder any circumstances. It is a serious sin to deliberately endorse orpromote any of these actions, and no candidate who really wants toadvance the common good will support any action contrary to thenon-negotiable principles involved in these issues.

 The issues are 1)abortion; 2) euthanasia; 3) embryonic stem cell research; 4) humancloning; and 5) homosexual marriage. Senator Barack Obama is at oddswith just about every one of them. Senator Barack Obama is at odds withthese key elements of The Roman Catholic Faith. No faithful Catholic ingood conscience can vote or support this presidential candidate. Theteachings of the Magisterium show why it would be gravely sinful tovote for him. The Church states that It is never licit to obey it, orto take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or tovote for it. (Pope John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 73) Scripturesdeclare, You shall not murder. (Ex. 20:13). Scripture is clear that theunborn are humans. When Mary visited Elizabeth, who was pregnant withthe unborn John the Baptist, Elizabeth declared: As soon as the soundof your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

Senator Barack Obama is rated 100% from Nay-RAL, an abortion-on-demanddefense group. They say, Senator Obama has a fully pro-choice record.He is rated 100% by Planned Parenthood, who is the largest abortionmill in the United States. He is rated 0% by the National Right toLife, indicating a pro-choice stance. He voted present on an Illinoispartial-birth abortion ban, which is an equivalent to a no vote. Hevoted against an Illinois Induced Infant Liability Act. He supportsartificial birth control. He supports Roe versus Wade. He voted no ondefining an unborn baby as a child. He voted no on stopping minorscrossing state lines for abortion. He voted no on notifying parents ofminors who get out-of-state abortions. Twice, Obama voted against billsprohibiting tax funding of abortions. In February 2004, his wife,Michelle, sent out a fundraising letter, which actually stated herconcern over the rise of conservatism in the Country, and that theso-called partial-birth abortion was a legitimate medical procedurethat should be protected. In 2003, as chairman of the next Senatecommittee to which the Born Alive Infants Protection Act was sent,Obama prevented it from even getting a hearing. This act stated thatall live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right toequal protection, whether or not they were wanted. 

In 2007, Barackpledged that, in his first act as president, he will sign the Freedomof Choice Act, which would cancel every federal, state or localregulation or restriction on abortion. The National Organization forWomen says it would abolish all restrictions on government funding ofabortion. The Catholic Church states, Abortion and euthanasia are thuscrimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is noobligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a graveand clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. SenatorBarack Obama said that he thought that attempting to stop TerriSchiavos death was a mistake: I think professionally the biggestmistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was adebate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left theSenate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldnthave. The Catholic Church states, "Respect for the dignity of the humanbeing excludes all experimental manipulation or exploitation of thehuman embryo. Recent scientific advances show that often medicaltreatments that researchers hope to develop from experimentation onembryonic stem cells can be developed by using adult stem cellsinstead. Adult stem cells can be obtained without doing harm to theadults from whom they come. Thus there is no valid medical argument infavor of using embryonic stem cells. And even if there were benefits tobe had from such experiments, they would not justify destroyinginnocent embryonic humans. Senator Barack Obama voted yes on expandingresearch to more embryonic stem cell lines. He supports use of federalfunds to support embryonic research.