tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post7894979501804817194..comments2023-10-07T09:34:47.507-05:00Comments on Aggie Catholics: Can You Refuse To Pay Taxes Because of Abortion?Marcelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18121158394600137195noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post-11553896845791797582012-01-03T10:54:48.177-06:002012-01-03T10:54:48.177-06:00However, even in a Republic, a representative Demo...However, even in a Republic, a representative Democracy, there is still a cooperation, a surrendering of our will to a hierarchy, for the sake of the common good. Since that cooperation is always one that involves frail human beings, there is always a material cooperation with evil. Our goods our never simply "our own," that is individualism which is opposed to the sensus communio that is at the heart of every democracy. We cannot eliminate our material cooperation with evil by eliminating our cooperation with society. The real question then becomes, what is the best way to bring about the end of evils within society while still being "in the world." This is a prudential decision which does not exclude boycotts, strikes, and even armed conflict keeping in mind that they are options of last resort and mark a failure of society and democrasyFr Kurtis' Forumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716480709621376313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5094967570243723764.post-79444309510961453882011-12-29T11:59:08.358-06:002011-12-29T11:59:08.358-06:00I think you've written a good article here. Th...I think you've written a good article here. The one point I have issue with, however, is the last one. Jesus did ask us to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, but I do not see how that applies in our country. The United States is a unique situation in the sense that we have a government by the people. We are endowed by our Creator (not Caesar) with certain unalienable rights, among these being roughly that what is mine is not Caesar's.<br /><br />The government is not entitled to my money to support morally objectionable acts such as abortion, as it is not within the realms of the constitution. Therefore, it is not within my duty to oblige. <br /><br />As much as I am willing to compromise in order to keep the peace, there is something to be said for the power of the boycott. An assembly of people who refuse to shop at a store that sells porn can cause the store to cease participating in such morally objectionable acts, as it has in the past.<br /><br />If tax dollars start being funneled into abortion clinics, that is already a major defeat for the Church as being the salt and light in our society. We need to keep fighting now before taxes grow into the monster of remote evil. AKA indirect murder.Andrew Karlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09230831222262206792noreply@blogger.com