The Catholic Vote - The 5 Non-Negotiable Issues / Video; courtesy of Catholic Answers Action. For more, please see http://www.caaction.com If The US Catholic Bishops Were Allowed By Law To Endorse Presidential Candidates, They Would Not Endorse Obama Since He Is At Odds With 5 Non-Negotiable Issues. As responsible Roman Catholic voters we must examine the important issues and see what Senator Barack Obama would do as President of the United States. For Roman Catholics, there are five non-negotiable issues. If a candidate supports any of these issues, you may not vote for them. These five current issues concern actions that are intrinsically evil and must never be promoted by the law. Intrinsically evil actions are those that fundamentally conflict with the moral law and can never be deliberately performed under any circumstances. It is a serious sin to deliberately endorse or promote any of these actions, and no candidate who really wants to advance the common good will support any action contrary to the non-negotiable principles involved in these issues. The issues are 1) abortion; 2) euthanasia; 3) embryonic stem cell research; 4) human cloning; and 5) homosexual marriage. Senator Barack Obama is at odds with just about every one of them. Senator Barack Obama is at odds with these key elements of The Roman Catholic Faith. No faithful Catholic in good conscience can vote or support this presidential candidate. The teachings of the Magisterium show why it would be gravely sinful to vote for him. The Church states that It is never licit to obey it, or to take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or to vote for it. (Pope John Paul II, Evangelium vitae 73) Scriptures declare, You shall not murder. (Ex. 20:13). Scripture is clear that the unborn are humans. When Mary visited Elizabeth, who was pregnant with the unborn John the Baptist, Elizabeth declared: As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Senator Barack Obama is rated 100% from Nay-RAL, an abortion-on-demand defense group. They say, Senator Obama has a fully pro-choice record. He is rated 100% by Planned Parenthood, who is the largest abortion mill in the United States. He is rated 0% by the National Right to Life, indicating a pro-choice stance. He voted present on an Illinois partial-birth abortion ban, which is an equivalent to a no vote. He voted against an Illinois Induced Infant Liability Act. He supports artificial birth control. He supports Roe versus Wade. He voted no on defining an unborn baby as a child. He voted no on stopping minors crossing state lines for abortion. He voted no on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. Twice, Obama voted against bills prohibiting tax funding of abortions. In February 2004, his wife, Michelle, sent out a fundraising letter, which actually stated her concern over the rise of conservatism in the Country, and that the so-called partial-birth abortion was a legitimate medical procedure that should be protected. In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which the Born Alive Infants Protection Act was sent, Obama prevented it from even getting a hearing. This act stated that all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted. In 2007, Barack pledged that, in his first act as president, he will sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would cancel every federal, state or local regulation or restriction on abortion. The National Organization for Women says it would abolish all restrictions on government funding of abortion. The Catholic Church states, Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection. Senator Barack Obama said that he thought that attempting to stop Terri Schiavos death was a mistake: I think professionally the biggest mistake that I made was when I first arrived in the Senate. There was a debate about Terri Schiavo, and a lot of us, including me, left the Senate with a bill that allowed Congress to intrude where it shouldnt have. The Catholic Church states, "Respect for the dignity of the human being excludes all experimental manipulation or exploitation of the human embryo. Recent scientific advances show that often medical treatments that researchers hope to develop from experimentation on embryonic stem cells can be developed by using adult stem cells instead. Adult stem cells can be obtained without doing harm to the adults from whom they come. Thus there is no valid medical argument in favor of using embryonic stem cells.