Oct24Written by:Knight Blogger
10/24/2008 11:00 AM 
Are you prepared for the headlines Nov. 5?
“Abortion Issue Irrelevant”
“Values Voters Stay Home”
“Culture War Lost”
We can’t let this happen. Less than two weeks from today, Americans will go to the polls to vote in perhaps the most important election of our lifetime. So much is at stake. We simply cannot afford to sit on the sidelines at this 11th hour.
Visit www.catholicvote.com and see how you can help get out the message of how important it is to vote this election year.
There are 2 causes very near and dear to the Knights of Columbus - pro-life, and the defense of marriage. To quote part of a blog from Father Frank Pavone at Priests for Life:
"If the next president serves one term, given the current ages of Supreme Court Justices and the average age of the last six Justices to leave the Court, he will likely make at least one, probably two, and possibly more appointments to the nation’s highest court.
If the next president serves two terms, he will likely appoint at least three Supreme Court Justices, perhaps six.
Based on the average term of service of the last six Justices to leave the Court, the newly appointed Justices of the next president will each serve an average of 23 years.
Because the two Justices most likely to retire next are both pro-abortion, it is not an overstatement to say that the next President could shape abortion jurisprudence for the next generation. This will be an incontrovertible fact if the next president appoints six justices. "
See how much hangs in the balance of your vote? Not just taxes, or borders, or the military, but the LIVES OF OVER 1 MILLION BABIES PER YEAR. In the time since Roe vs Wade, that's more lives than were lost in all wars ever and those taken in capital punishment.
www.CatholicVote.com has some great resources and thought provoking commentary. There's a super piece on the fallacy of Catholics that vote for pro-choice candidates. Please visit their site and encourage your friends and family to do so too.
If you have teens that will be voting for the first time, take the time to talk to them about the issues that should matter to them as Catholics so that they can make an informed choice on election day and not just vote for the candidates that are all the rage, but offer us nothing but division and disregard in these troubling times.