Should I Follow My Conscience?
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Grace, a 16-year-old singer, is excited about a paying gig, but there’s a catch: she would be singing at a fund-raiser for a politician with non-Catholic views on essential issues. Grace asks Patrick if she should take the job or follow her conscience.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's go to Grace in Lakeside, San Diego. Hi, Grace. Hi, Patrick. I sing. I'm 16, and I, like, write my own |
| 0:07.4 | songs and stuff, and I perform at a lot of performances, like I get requested for gigs and stuff. |
| 0:13.8 | Nice. What kind of songs? |
| 0:17.4 | There's Christian songs and love songs songs because I'm a teenager. |
| 0:22.8 | Teenage girl. |
| 0:28.7 | At my last performance, a city council member of like the city that I live in, |
| 0:33.2 | really liked what I was like playing in my song. |
| 0:40.4 | And so he emailed my mom and asked if I could play for his campaign for $25 an hour, |
| 0:43.9 | and the gigs would be like three hours long. |
| 0:52.3 | But he has very not Catholic views, so I don't know if I should sing for his campaign or not. |
| 0:54.8 | Ah, I love this. |
| 0:56.9 | You have a moral dilemma that you need to resolve. |
| 0:57.6 | This is good. |
| 1:05.0 | So tell me about his positions or what does he espouse that is contrary to your Catholic faith? |
| 1:11.3 | He's pro-choice and he promotes like the LGBTQ agenda. |
| 1:20.0 | But also the race is, he told me it's nonpartisan, but he still identifies as like a Democrat. And so he has these like political alignment. |
| 1:23.1 | But I feel like those will contribute to the things that he's passing. |
| 1:28.3 | Right. |
| 1:29.3 | What office is he running for again? |
| 1:30.3 | Do you say city council? |
| 1:32.3 | I believe it's city council. |
| 1:33.3 | It could be something more. |
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