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Monday November 06, 2006 Principle-Centered Voting
Voting is a tremendous responsibility - indeed, I believe it is a moral obligation. It is important, then, to inform our votes based on conscience and principle. Archbishop Charles Chaput, current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archidiocese of Denver, recently published an excellent article on "Seven principles to use in the public square". Among those principles is the following:
Catholic teaching has two basic principles we should use in judging every public issue: First, does this issue advance the dignity of the individual human person; and second, does this issue promote the common good? We can never choose one of these principles to the exclusion of the other. We need to follow both. A public policy can’t truly serve the common good if it violates, or allows to be violated, the sanctity of someone’s fundamental human rights, from conception to natural death.
This is wonderful advice for voters of all religious and political persuasions. ( Nov 06 2006, 10:50:05 AM PST ) Permalink