[don-o]

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This is a nasty business with serious implications, and the bishops might want to consider where they'll find themselves if even their own co-religionists come to believe they're in the business of dictating officeholders' actions rather than forming consciences.

Some things are so stupid as to make it difficult to know how to engage.

Remarkable disconnect from reality here. Moral teaching involves instructing about actions. People who want to be in good standing with the church want to do what the church says to do and to not do what the church says not to do.

[Mrs. Don-o]

(1) The bishops in KS, DC, and Arlington VA aren't telling Sebelius how to be a governor. They're telling her how to be a Catholic.

(1) Consequences are a really good way to help form consciences.

[ALPAPilot]

This is a nasty business with serious implications,

I'm guessing that the Bishops not wanting their flock spending eternity in hell is not what this writer had in mind.