Voting for President Obama stirs up proportional ethics

*This is our edited copy of letter we sent to the Universe Bulletin that was not published. Included is a response from a Pro-Life group we link with above. We also forwarded this letter to St Mary's Seminary and Father Bednar directly

Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:49:56 -0400
Subject: Re.: Father Bednar review of the Obama does not compute

We will be exploring Father Bednar's article from the Universe Bulletin
further at The Rationale Quest at http://www.therationale.com and copy
it to our
http://tapsearch.com/pope-benedict-economic-encyclical site too. It
represents a short circuit in spirituality.
Ray Tapajna, http://tapsearch.com/super-links

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 6:54 PM
From "HELP(ST. HELEN, EDWARD & LUCY PRO-LIFE GROUP"
<prolifehelp@gmail.com> [Add]
Subject Thanks

Ray,
Thanks for sending along your response to Fr. Bednar's article. Well said! Sad that it met the fate (not being printed) of many other reasonable and right on replies refuting his proportional reason argument in defending
the decisions of the many "Catholics" who voted for Obama. I have been reading your site and find it to be a rich mind of wisdom and logic.
Peace,
Denver Sallee, HELP

Copy sentTo: jerrybednar@juno.com,
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:12:30 -0400

----- Original message -----
From:Ray Tapajna "Tapart News Editor"
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:11:27 -0400
Subject: Father Bednar review of the Obama does not compute

Letter to UB c/o Fax 696-6519 ( This is copy of our letter to the U.B
that they did not publish. )

We have what is called situational ethics and now Father Bednar seems to have a new one in proportional ethics. Father Bednar misses the point about the voting for President Obama. Although Cardinal Newman said everyone must follow their conscience even if their conscience is ill informed, it can never apply to an intrinsic evil. There is no proportional choice of conscience that can be chosen when something is an intrinsic evil as abortion is.

Furthermore, G K Chesterton says "The modern world is not evil." He said the modern world is full of the
old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. I see this isolation when Father Bednar discusses his proportionalism. Pope Benedict's
new economic encyclical - Charity is truth, attempts to abstract this isolation for the sake of the common good. The Pope stresses subsidiarity which I understand to mean that all decisions should be made at the lowest possible level. This certainly does not apply to the
way President Obama does things.

If we applied Father Bednar version of proportional choice during the holocaust in Germany, we would approve of many Germans choices in the matter as being proportional. This same scenario applys to voting for
President Obama. The holocaust of babies now adds up to about 50 million babies being killed - many die through the horrible process of partial birth abortion. How can something like partial birth abortion be absorbed in any proportional choice.

There is also a problem about secluding the voting process to two major parties assuming that these are the only two proportional choices. Voting for president is not an either - or thing with only two major
parties involved. ( Many say both parties are acting as just one too ). I have not voted for a major presidential candidate for years and my proportional choices for the office are locked out of the process. Third parties are actively locked out of the process. It is also obvious that workers have no voice in the process of globalization and free trade and all of the four last Presidents are part of this lock out too. The right to life seems to have affected human dignity not only at the beginning of life but in the work day too.
Somewhere along the way, we lost the real issue of our times next to abortion. Both President Obama and Senator McCain ignored the issue of globalization and free trade in their campaigns. President Obama does
not even mention it as he marries big government to big money as our economy based on making money on money instead of making things is burning out. So I see no validity in Father Bednar's discerning a vote for President Obama as being a proportional choice when so much is left out of his assessment. The right to life belongs to all of us - be it being born or having our rightful place in society as a whole. Even Adam Smith eld workers and labor as something sacred and the core of all society.

The Right to Life includes this too. Proportionals strikes at human dignity in more ways than one.

Ray Tapajna
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http://www.therationale.com
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( I intend to explore Father Bednar's article further on my philosophy
and religion blog at http://www.therationale.com I review ( react ) to
Pope Benedict's economic encyclical at
http://tapsearch.com/pope-benedict-economic-encylical

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