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Perspective of a jaded New Yorker!  Go and vote AGAINST evil, but recognise your vote won't make any difference.  God is giving us the laws we deserve for our collective sins.  Pray for the strength to stand up, not by voting, but by doing what is right.  Be willing to get fired for the Faith.  But choose your battles.  Our Lord requires His Honour upheld for the good of souls.  For most Catholics, He doesn't require us to wear a huge Crucifix. You can do your job and be openly  Catholic while wearing a small Crucifix.  Should the govt. forbid you to wear ANY outward sign of the Faith while accommodating, say, a Sikh's headgear, then stand up, even if you lose your job.  
Many years ago, I walked out of a public school where I'd been hired as a substitute for the day when the principal ordered me to hide or remove the small Cross I wore on a necklace because it "offended" the co-teacher who wore a crocheted yarmulke!  Supposedly, the Cross was "obviously religious" whereas the kippah was not!  Now, of course, neither of us would be allowed on the premises with either item showing.

If all the Christians refuse to vote then that type of law could be promulgated.

Why is voting obligatory?

“It is the duty of citizens to contribute along with the civil authorities to the good of society….”(2) As the Second Vatican Council taught, “every citizen ought to be mindful of his duty to promote the common good by using his vote.”(3) We are not obliged to vote for the sake of voting but to vote in a way that we think will make our country better for all Canadians.

I guess if vatican 2 says to vote I better do the opposite?






What if I cannot find a suitable candidate?

While it is always wrong to ‘do evil that good may come of it’ (Cf. Rom 3:8) – and therefore wrong to support a candidate who fails to uphold the right to life and the good of marriage and the family – it is not wrong to limit evil that good may come of it. That is, we cannot do something wrong just because it may lead to a good outcome, but we can work to limit something wrong being done in order to lead to a good outcome.

Thus, if no candidate upholds the right to life and the rights of the family, we can still exercise our responsibility to vote. We can vote for the candidate who is the least hostile to the right to life and to the family – and limit the harm that worse candidates might do.

In the words of one theologian, “At times, the voter can do no better than make a choice of the lesser of two or more evils…. He must choose the group or individual who, everything considered, is the most favourable to faith and morals or is the least hostile.”(13)

To quote another theologian, “It is sinful to vote for the enemies of religion or liberty, except to exclude a worse candidate….”(14)

When no truly good option is given to voters, we are then forced to use our vote to ensure the least objectionable outcome.

What if I cannot find a suitable candidate?

Sometimes we have to choose the lesser of two evils.

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The second Vatican council didn't teach anything, poche.  Get over it.  


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I do believe that Catholics may vote in American elections as long as they vote for the least objectionable candidates.

The problem is often that there are no least objectionable candidates.  Here in Indiana, the people gave the Republican Party a super-majority in the both houses of the State Legislature in the last election with the understanding that they would accomplish all the things they promised to do since the opposition party could not actually stop any legislative proceeding.  The legislative session ended without any of their signature issues being passed and at least on signature issue of the Democrat Party passing with "bi-partisan" support.

The same seems (to me, at least) to be true for the consolidated legislature (i.e., the U.S. Congress) as well.  I really don't see much of a point in worrying about voting since the two parties that have essentially locked out any competition aren't really opposition parties but merely factions of the same party who have the same goals, just different ideas about how to achieve them.

The only reason that I can think of to vote in the future is to vote against retaining local judges and against ballot referenda that frequently appear on the ballots to raise my taxes.

Cast your vote, Catholics! Will it be for the pro-baby murder, pro-sodomy, crypto-communist candidate in the pocket of the Internationalists, or for the pro-usury, pro-sham war, crypto-zionist candidate in the pocket of the Internationalists?

Which of those is the vote "against the greater evil," exactly?

From where I'm standing, not voting at all is the only "lesser evil" for a Catholic voter.

Cast your vote, Catholics! Will it be for the pro-baby murder, pro-sodomy, crypto-communist candidate in the pocket of the Internationalists, or for the pro-usury, pro-sham war, crypto-zionist candidate in the pocket of the Internationalists?

Which of those is the vote "against the greater evil," exactly?

From where I'm standing, not voting at all is the only "lesser evil" for a Catholic voter.

Judgments for who to vote for must be on a case by case basis.  If a Catholic determines that there is no worthy candidate, he may based on the evidence available to him vote for the candidate who will cause less evil.

I agree with you that this is getting more difficult to do in many elections, but I think that some elections in the US have candidates of greater evil and some who are less evil in their programs.  

A Catholic should carefully follow state and national politics to determine if there are any worthy candidates, and if not, to make a determination if he should still vote to block a greater evil.