So EWTN has some quotes from Pope Benedict XVI on Life, Marriage and Religious Liberty along with quotes from the Democratic and Republican Party Platforms. For instance:
The Three Non-Negotiable Principles of the Moral Law
according to Pope Benedict XVI1
1. Life. The protection and dignity of every human life from conception to natural death. The framework within and against which every other issue must be measured.
2012 Democratic Platform2
The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a womans right to make decisions regarding her pregnancy, including a safe and legal abortion, regardless of ability to pay. We oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right. (p. 18)
President Obama and Democrats will continue to stand up to Republican efforts to defund Planned Parenthood health centers. The Affordable Care Act ensures that women have access to contraception in their health insurance plans (p. 18)
2012 Republican Platform3
Faithful to the self-evident truths enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, we assert the sanctity of human life and affirm that the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. We support a human life amendment to the Constitution and endorse legislation to make clear that the Fourteenth Amendments protections apply to unborn children. (p. 13-14)
We oppose using public revenues to promote or perform abortion or fund organizations which perform or advocate it and will not fund or subsidize health care which includes abortion coverage. (p. 13-14)
Republican leadership has led the effort to prohibit the barbaric practice of partial-birth abortion and permitted States to extend health care coverage to children before birth. We urge Congress to strengthen the Born Alive Infant Protection Act by enacting appropriate civil and criminal penalties on healthcare providers who fail to provide treatment and care to an infant who survives an abortion, including early induction delivery where the death of the infant is intended. We call for legislation to ban sex-selective abortions gender discrimination in its most lethal form and to protect from abortion unborn children who are capable of feeling pain; and we applaud U.S. House Republicans for leading the effort to protect the lives of pain-capable unborn children in the District of Columbia. We call for a ban on the use of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. (p.13-14)"
It kinda makes the Pope look like a Republican. Of course the Pope is German, so he's not affiliated with any American party (I don't know who he votes for in Germany, if they have absentee ballots, maybe he tends to vote for the Christian-Democratic Party, though he probably votes based on principles rather than party).
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