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Q: I have a quick question about this year’s U.S. presidential election. My question is that since all the Democratic candidates that are talked about support abortion and same-sex “marriage,” it would be sinful for me to vote for a Democratic candidate. So really I would have to vote for a Republican candidate, correct? I just want to make sure I understand this correctly. -C.<\/address>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Answered by Fr. Edward McIlmail, LC<\/p>\n

A: You raise a very good question. The answer is surprisingly complex.<\/p>\n

First, the Church doesn’t endorse specific political candidates or parties. Its mission is pastoral, not political.<\/p>\n

Second, while no one should support a candidate because of his or her pro-abortion or pro-homosexuality stance — that would amount to formal cooperation in evil — it is possible to support a candidate who has some bad opinions, if the alternative is worse and if by your vote you don’t intend to support the candidate’s bad positions.<\/p>\n

Third, you want to be wary of backing one candidate or another, thinking that he or she will be pro-life once in office. Pro-lifers have been disappointed more than a few times by supposedly sympathetic politicians.<\/p>\n

Fourth, there is the tricky business of three-way races. Let’s say there is one candidate who is very pro-life, another who is moderately pro-abortion, and the third who is very pro-abortion.<\/p>\n

The pro-lifer has virtually no chance of winning the race, and a vote for him will likely tilt the election in favor of the extremely pro-abortion candidate. So how do you vote? This is not an easy question. Good Christians have come to different answers.<\/p>\n

In general, we should look to vote for candidates who will be pro-life and pro-family. Beyond that, the details can be difficult to navigate — which is why it helps to pray before an election.<\/p>\n

For more reading, see the U.S. bishops’ document “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship<\/a>“. I hope this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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His contributions to RCSpirituality include responding to\u00a0Ask A Priest\u00a0questions and sharing his insights in our\u00a0Weekly Newsletter.","url":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/author\/emcilmail\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152820"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnumchristi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=152820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}