Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics

[Dolorian]

That whole excerpt is literally Catholics sticking their fingers in their ears and ignoring science, philosophy, and technology. My father (who is Catholic) does the exact same thing, and its just pointing to their doctrine and cutting off all discussion or debate.

Ok, what science, philosophy and technology are they ignoring? Take something like Embryonic Stem Cell Research, for example. They oppose it for the reasons given in the OP and also claim that there are better and less "inhumane" (as they would call this process) methods of achieving the same things. They'd point to something like this, for example:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/20...ut-embryo/

What is wrong with their view?