Where does the Bishop's power trip end? BC pills, divorce?

[K8-EEE]

If they can order Catholic lawmakers to make laws forcing EVERYONE to follow Catholic rules you're nuts to think it ends with this issue. Can a Catholic drug store clerk sell condoms? Can Catholic lawyer assist a client with a divorce settlement? Can a Catholic pharmacist fill a birth control prescription? And what the hell every happened to "free will" doctrine in the Catholic Church where these sanctimonious GOP operatives attempt to limit EVERYONE's free will by inserting themselves in to politics and civil affairs. Blech! Disgusting! That Tweety interview sure made me glad I got our of that church.

[Cleita]

1. Exactly.

If any politician feels that he can't disobey his Church, then he needs to get out of politics.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Amen.

[MattBaggins]

5. Or his church?

[Cleita]

7. That would work too and I believe some have already. n/t

[tridim]

8. It's really that simple.

I have no idea why the Kennedy's are still Catholic.

Dump them and never look back.

[MattBaggins]

10. Could they really get elected in Massachusetts if they were not Catholic?

[movonne]

11. Now he is telling us that he will not let any of the catholic hospitals,

nursing homes let us have our feeding tubes pulled...even if you have so directed..that church is going on a power trip...

[niyad]

3. exactly right--and one of the main reasons I left, as well (not to mention being thrown out anyway

for daring to challenge the church's "moral authority"

[kctim]

4. ?

Sorry, but I don't pay attention to religion matters. What Catholic rules are now law?

[KharmaTrain]

6. The Chilling Part Was At The Start Of The Interview

...when the good Bishop said that a good Catholic's duty is to his faith first and country second. It's the same exclusionary attitude of any religious extremist group and very dangerous to the health of a functional pluralistic society.

[K8-EEE]

15. Yes the Taliban definitely agree.....

Although notice all the wingnuts pundits were trumpeting "secular government" when they first invaded Iraq (of course, they got the opposite MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.) It's weird. Secular government is awesome in Middle East but here it's BAD.....

[EnlightenedOne]

9. Another Inquisition

would be their wet dream.

[mitchum]

12. May the bishop soon be with his precious lord

very soon

[Lyric]

13. That Bishop is destroying decades of hard work

against anti-Catholic bigotry, and doing his damndest to rebuild the wall of suspicion that JFK tore down.

What's funny to me is that the biggest anti-Catholic haters in the country used to be the fundie Protestant churches, like Baptists. Now we hear nary a peep; they're too afraid to speak up and condemn the RCC about this because it might hurt THEIR attempts to take over the government. The fundies used to argue that Catholics shouldn't be elected because then Rome might force its ideology on the USA. Now that can't make that argument anymore, because saying that it's wrong for the RCC to do it undercuts their insistence that THEY should be able to do it.

God, religion + government is a nucking fightmare. We need to consider a constitutional amendment to more-firmly establish the Wall of Separation, and soon.

[bluethruandthru]

14. We need religion out of our government now.

And any politician who can't truly commit to this country before their faith needs to resign. It's time for a new oath of office.

[me b zola]

16. I think that will go that route

They seem to pushing American catholics to either subscribe to their rw agenda or they will be shunned by the church. Yep, I think that they will continue on this path.

[K8-EEE]

18. Then they will go down.....

They are already closing parishes right and left, I'll tell you one thing you won't hear them say, "Hey pro-choice voters don't give us any money!"

[Barack_America]

17. Mandatory tithing.

Straight to the Catholic church coffers.