GENERAL ELECTION 2008 | |
Know the Positions of the PA Attorney General Candidates | |
As part of a statewide effort to educate people about candidates and their positions on issues important to Catholic voters, the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference (PCC) sent a questionnaire to candidates for statewide office to give them the opportunity to make their positions known on key specific issues. The answers they provided are listed here for educational purposes only; the PCC does not endorse candidates for political office. | |
DEMOCRAT | REPUBLICAN |
 John M. Morganelli |  Tom Corbett |
What is your position on providing legal protection for unborn children from the moment of conception if Roe v. Wade is overturned? | |
SUPPORT, with exceptions for with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother | SUPPORT, with exceptions for with exceptions for rape, incest and life of the mother |
What is your position on Pennsylvania’s present law prohibiting assisted suicide? | |
SUPPORT | SUPPORT |
What is your position on imposing a moratorium on the death penalty in Pennsylvania and simultaneously establishing a commission to study how the death penalty is implemented in our Commonwealth? | |
OPPOSE | OPPOSE While I am not opposed to studies, I do not believe that a moratorium is necessary. I believe that the justice system in Pennsylvania is working and imposing a moratorium will open the door for abolishing the death penalty. We still need the death penalty as a deterrent as well as punishment for heinous crimes. |
What is your position on aggressively defending state law refusing to recognize same-sex “marriages”? | |
SUPPORT | SUPPORT |
What is your position on vigorously enforcing the current Pennsylvania laws regulating obscenity and pornography? | |
SUPPORT | SUPPORT |
What is your position on defending the constitutionality of a school choice program including religious schools? | |
DID NOT INDICATE I would have to see the specific law that would be at issue. | SUPPORT |
What is your position on legislation or administrative regulation that forces Catholic health care providers to provide, pay for or refer for services contrary to their conscience and moral teachings? | |
OPPOSE | OPPOSE I am committed to protecting the religious, ethical or moral conscience of individuals as protected by the laws of the Commonwealth and the United States. |
What is your position about legislative proposals to shift some of the enforcement responsibilities of federal immigration laws to state and local law enforcement authorities? | |
SUPPORT | DID NOT INDICATE As posed, I cannot answer this question as it is much too broad and does not account for exactly what roles would be shared and how state and local agencies would be funded to fill such a role. |
Published by the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, the public affairs agency of Pennsylvania’s Catholic Bishops. For more information, contact PCC at PO Box 2835, Harrisburg, PA 17105 717-238-9613, info@pacatholic.org. | |
