This is why it would be a mistake to nominate Bachmann. Catholics make up 23-26% of the US population. You're not going to convince them that Bachmann is not anti-Catholic. Add to that the 26% of voters who are unaffiliated, who would consider her a religious fanatic, and you have approximately a majority. Then there's the fact that no President since Lincoln has ever been elected from the House of Representatives. (In fact, he's the only one, I believe, since John Q. Adams was in the House after his presidency and Ford was vice president before succeeding to president).
That dumb argument. She works with pro-life Catholic groups and Father Frank Pavone as I have documented.
These sort of arguments are the ones liberals use that have no merit whatsoever.
Do any Catholics care to take a position on whether or not Protestants are Christians and saved? I know what the Catholic church used to say. The answer, as I understand it, is No. Does it still say it? Does that mean that Catholics are antiProtestant?
If we are looking for reasons to devour each other, religious wars have served that purpose for centuries.
My intent is not to stir up trouble. Personally, I tend to look for reasons to agree with someone on Christian doctrine, as opposed to looking for grounds to disagree.
The point is that we are not establishing a theocracy. Any church, with a systematized theology, is going to have controversial points. Membership in that church may or may not mean the member is a hard line advocate of those points of view.
Before we run off the lemming cliff because of Bachmann’s church membership, let’s give her a chance to explain herself, and let’s look at what she may have said and done on this topic before.
For what it's worth, he was also anti-Catholic--I recall a quote from him similar to the one by Rev. Burchard which caused Blaine's defeat in the 1884 election.
Some of the Catholics on FR have stated they don’t believe she is anti-Catholic, and that they fully intend to vote for her.