[Senator_Blutarski]

None of these politicians has been forced to run for elected office. No one is forced to belong to the Catholic Church. Both are free choices.

Belonging to the Catholic Church is a choice that involves personal commitments and beliefs. The doctrines of the Church are not optional.

Catholic politicians need to be able to reconcile their religion with their political positions. To do otherwise is blasphemy. If they are unable to reconcile their beliefs, the honest and decent thing to do would be to either leave politics or leave the Church.

[ardara]

I knew something was very different about Massachuetts since 1972 when it was the only state won by McGovern in the 1972 Presidential election.

[BritExPatInFla]

Belonging to the Catholic Church is a choice that involves personal commitments and beliefs. The doctrines of the Church are not optional.

Not a troll/flame, but I wonder how many self professed Catholics, or in a larger sense, Christians, actually follow church doctrine to the letter, and can be seen as 'true' Catholics/Christians? I'd be willing to bet that the majority have at least one issue that puts them at odds with their church, thereby making them fallen in their churches' eyes. Be it drinking, sexual matters, birth control, an abortion, gay rights beliefs, etc.