The Plain Truth?

We are divided in this country, in this world, on pretty much every subject. In a recent episode I questioned the support of Catholic Clerical leaders, even implicitly, of a politician who not only advocates but is manifestly, actively seeking to make or keep abortion as the law of the land. I am certainly not alone in this concern. Far more theologically competent prelates than I have tried to raise the alarm. But they are considered somehow, radical. How can that be given the plain statements by the Church, still purportedly on "paper"? And how can it be that half of the Catholics in this country would also believe that anyone who questions such a politician, in this case the Democrat candidate, is cruel and inhuman? And yet, so it is. Our family. Our good friends. 

But if the proportional argument takes sway here, that a Joe Biden's other platforms are so good that they outweigh his active pursuit of abortion on demand, then Catholic teaching seems to have no authority in any other arena. All things can be given the proportionality treatment. 

And the plain truth bites the dust.