Question For Sedevacantists: If Pope No Longer Rules Because Of The Sin Of Heresy Then Does The Protestant Politician Still Rule? Why Do You Vote For Protestant Heretics To Rule Over You?

Sedevacantists are pro-democracy. Most all Sedevacantists vote in every presidential election. And the man who says that the pope is not the pope due to the sin of heresy will still cast a vote for some protestant heretic. Reasoning goes like this:

1. Pope can not rule in the spiritual realm due to sin of heresy
2. But the Politician can and does rule in the temporal realm even if tainted with the sin of heresy.

According to Sedevacantists:

Heresy takes away the authority of the pope - therefore you don't have to obey a heretical pope and his laws.

Heresy never takes away the authority of the politician therefore you must always obey the politician and his laws.

To test this, please ask a Sedevacantist:

Who is the current pope? Answer: No one

Who is the current president of the United States? Answer: Obama.

Who did you vote for in the last election? Answer some protestant candidate.

Now if there are degrees of heresy then Obama would be a very nasty heretic - worse than the current pope. Most Sedevacantists will acknowledge this.

Here are the words of a saint, that Sedevacantists use to justify their position:

St. Robert Bellarmine, On the Roman Pontiff, Book 2, Chapter 30.

"This principle is most certain. The non-Christian cannot in any way be Pope, as Cajetan himself admits (ib. c. 26). The reason for this is that he cannot be head of what he is not a member; now he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian, as is clearly taught by St. Cyprian (lib. 4, epist. 2), St. Athanasius (Scr. 2 cont. Arian.), St. Augustine (lib. de great. Christ. cap. 20), St. Jerome (contra Lucifer.) and others; therefore the manifest heretic cannot be Pope."

Replace pope with politician:

"This principle is most certain. The non-Christian cannot in any way be President of the United States, as Cajetan himself admits (ib. c. 26). The reason for this is that he cannot be head of what he is not a member; now he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian, as is clearly taught by St. Cyprian (lib. 4, epist. 2), St. Athanasius (Scr. 2 cont. Arian.), St. Augustine (lib. de great. Christ. cap. 20), St. Jerome (contra Lucifer.) and others; therefore the manifest heretic cannot be President of the United States."

Unless of course you disagree with this and claim that the body politic has nothing to do with the body of the church and that both bodies are separated and the one body - the body politic - does not have to obey the laws of God because God laws only pertain to the church body and not the body politic, so therefore the politician is not required to be in a state of grace, nor be pure in doctrine, nor be a christian - christian in the true sense of the word.

If you claim that politicians do not need to hold purity of doctrine and do not have to be free of heresy - both in morals and faith - then the same can be said for the nation at large - that it does not have to create, pass and enforce laws that are free from heresy in morals and faith.

For instance laws pertaining to homosexuality and other assorted perversions are allowed according to the Sedevacantist position, because the lawmakers are not required to be pure in faith and morals and neither are the laws that they create, pass and enforce.

Conclusion:

You can't have it both ways - either heretics can rule in the spiritual realm and in the temporal realm or they can not.

Which means only one thing that its best to have a faithful Roman Catholic rule over you in the spiritual realm and a faithful Roman Catholic rule over you in the temporal realm.

Holy Roman Pontiff and Holy Roman Emperor

This is what God intended.