Thread by @RockofLifeNI

🧵🪡 By @Fr_Paddy Mc Cafferty

'This is SDLP MLA,Sinead McLaughlin, saying that pro life people need to “get a life”. Her contempt for the electorate is evident and is by no means confined to her.

This is the attitude that prevails among much of the SDLP as

currently constituted. As McLaughlin boasts, the SDLP Youth is strongly pro abortion-“choice”.

There needs to be a very definite rejection, by the entire pro life constituency, on May 5th, of the likes of Sinead McLaughlin, also of the SDLP and other pro-

abortion parties. I am appealing, as a priest, to voters who are faithful Catholics, to reject the SDLP and Sinn Fein at the ballot box on account of their avowed pro abortion stance.

I am singling out the SDLP in particular because members of that party are

not beyond lying to get pro life votes.

Traditionally, the SDLP were a party that faithful Catholics could trust and for which they could vote in good conscience.That is no longer the case.
Colum Eastwood and Claire Hanna signed Stella Creasy’s open letter

appealing for Westminster to impose one of the most extreme abortion regimes in the world, on Northern Ireland, without consultation with the electorate.Colum Eastwood recently voted in the British Parliament to continue to allow so-called “DIY”home abortions

which are dangerous to women.
Many SDLP MLAs and councillors avowedly pro-abortion. All of the current SDLP MLAs at Stormont, voted to impose exclusion zones around facilities where abortions are perpetrated, and which will criminalise peaceful and law

abiding citizens. Their "crime"? offering women an alternative to killing the child, bearing prayerful witness against the evil of abortion.

SDLP MLAs Pat Catney, Sinead McLaughlin, Cara Hunter and Matthew O’Toole, voted in favour of killing children with

Down Syndrome and so-called "defects" such as cleft palates, up to birth.
A few years ago, Pat Catney rang me "out of the blue" - unsolicited - to assure me that he is "pro-life". His actions and behaviour at Stormont reveal otherwise. Does he take pro-life

people for fools? Nicola Mallon also has told people she is pro-life and yet is on record, expressing her "frustration" at lack of "abortion facilities".

My appeal is don’t vote for the @SDLPlive or the other pro abortion parties on May 5th.

The pro-life..

community in the North of Ireland needs to send a clear signal, that aggressive pro abortion stances of many politicians and their parties, is NOT IN OUR NAME.
I am appealing for a protest vote May 5th, a vote against the destruction and slaughter of unborn

boys and girls, a vote against the evil of abortion. We can make our voices heard and we can change the political landscape at Stormont.

Pro abortion parties Alliance, People Before Profit and the Green Party, make much of encouraging people away from the

"Orange and Green" politics.
In a real sense, faithful Catholics can move away from so-called "Orange and Green" politics, by voting DUP where there is no Aontú candidate running.

I do not agree with the politics of the DUP nor their antiCatholicism.

Nevertheless, when it comes to opposition to the evil of killing the unborn,I can put aside my differences with them. Personally,if it were a choice between Sinn Fein,the SDLP and/or the DUP, I would not hesitate to vote DUP. As it is,I will be voting Aontu

I am not "telling" people how to vote. I can’t do that; but I make no apology, indeed,I consider it part of my duty before God and the responsibilities I bear as a pastor, to exercise whatever little influence I have, with God’s faithful people, for them to

vote in accordance with their Faith. We cannot leave our Faith in Jesus Christ and our belonging to His Church outside the polling station. Abortion is a grave evil. Support for abortion is incompatible and irreconcilable with being a faithful Catholic.

Do not vote for those who support advocate for such evil.Reject their support for the evil of abortion on May 5th by not giving them even a 2,3,4 or5 on the ballot papers. I was always an SDLP supporter and voter. No more.The Party has betrayed its grassroots

pro-life voters. I know there are still truly pro life people involved in the SDLP. Nevertheless,their presence and influence has failed entirely to halt the inexorable pro abortion drift of that party.
My appeal to them also is to leave that party. The SDLP

has no pro life future given those currently with prominence in its ranks. We all know that there are many issues in our society that demand attention. Stormont has been a disaster for years. It is laughable to see the slogans of certain parties saying that a

vote for them is a vote for "change". They are; ALL OF THEM, part of the incompetent mess that is leading to, for example, to people dying because there are no ambulances to take them to hospitals.

They haven't the ability needed to "fix" the health service,

but they all rush to ensure the killing of unborn infants and they rush through faulty legislation which will criminalise innocent people for protesting against evil.
What sort of society do we want? Surely not one resting upon such wickedness?We can make our

voices heard on May 5th and say,loudly and clearly, to people like Sinead McLaughlin, NOT WITH OUR VOTES! and THE EVIL OF ABORTION IS NOT IN OUR NAMES!
Abortion is "progressive". It is not "compassion" and it is not "healthcare.The abortion industry and lobby

actually twists words away from their true meanings, to make them fit the evil they propagate.
The attempts, by so many, to make this evil acceptable and even "normal" must be resisted and utterly rejected.

Make your voice heard on May 5th with a resounding NO to such evil. VOTE PRO LIFE ON MAY 5th.' -
Fr. Patrick McCafferty, Parish Priest at Corpus Christi Parish, Belfast.

(Shared from the Facebook page of @Fr_Paddy Mc Cafferty.)
Thank-you Father 🙏🏻
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