“I was personally offended,” said Phillip Archer of Dallas. “My bishop basically told me that if I vote for Barack Obama, I will go to hell.”
The letter by Bishop Kevin Farrell of the Diocese of Dallas and Bishop Kevin Vann of the Diocese of Fort Worth says in part: “To vote for a candidate who supports the intrinsic evil of abortion or ‘abortion rights’ when there is a morally acceptable alternative would be to cooperate in the evil and, therefore, morally impermissible)
Sounds to me as if your Bishop gave instruction as to what the Word of God would require a Christians position to be.
If you have a problerm with that then maybe you are not a Christian.
“As a Catholic, we’re taught about being independent moral agents with free will”
I’m Catholic and I don’t recall being taught that. In fact I was assured in the second grade that my morals were dictacted by the teachings of Jesus through the RC Church and I had free will to accept or reject them.
“Independant moral agents” sounds like double speak - where’d she get that line.... Francis Kissling?