Michele Bachmann Leaves Church Accused of Anti-Catholic Bias ["I Love Catholics"-Bachmann]

LA Times ^ | July 13, 2011 | James Oliphant

[Steelfish]

Michele Bachmann Leaves Church Accused of Anti-Catholic Bias

By James Oliphant July 15, 2011 Taking a page from President Obama’s political playbook, Michele Bachmann has formally left a church in Minnesota accused of holding anti-Catholic views.

According to CNN, the church that Michele Bachmann and her husband Marcus had attended for more than a decade, Salem Lutheran in Stillwater, Minn., granted the couple’s request to be released from their membership last month, a week after Bachmann told a national audience that she would run for the Republican presidential nomination.

The Bachmanns had approached their pastor and verbally made the request “a few weeks before the church council granted the request,” said Joel Hochmuth, a spokesman for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the governing body for the church

[Steelfish]

It's James Oliphant who is the well known Catholic bigot.

[blackdog]

She should have replied with loud disdain for "catlickers, towel heads, goat humpers, snake snatchin baptists, fat budha bellies, and various other marginal bands of jesus freaks."

That would have given them something to talk about that would have been tasty, instead of this.

[nickcarraway]

I am a Catholic, but not offended by this. I am offended that she’s using Ed Rollins.

[EagleUSA]

How this “non-news” can even be compared to Obama and the America-hating church that he subscribed to (until it became public) is a joke. The by-line says it all.

[muawiyah]

I'm not sure about any of this. Wouldn't Lutherans be fairly assumed to have a bias that might not include the Catholics unless some of 'em showed up for baptism or something?

I mean, what are Protestants supposed to be ~ a sort of RC lite?

[RecoveringPaulisto]

That’s the politically correct way to be. See, in liberal lalaland, all religions are the same no matter how different, so any religious person who has the audacity to separate the orthodox from the heterodox must be an intolerant bigot.

[ex-snook]

Maybe this stuff would go away when a Papal Catholic received a GOP nomination for President. I wonder who it will be?

[slumber1]

I mean, what are Protestants supposed to be ~ a sort of RC lite?

Unfortunately that is what many of them have become. It is possible to love and respect individual Catholics and at the same time oppose the teaching and structure of the RCC

[iowamark]

Bachmann: "I love Catholics' money"

[BenKenobi]

Facts are stubborn things....

[muawiyah]

You do know we used to have fewer RCs in the Republican party than we did Souvrnr's.

Things have changed, but we're still down by half. Get busy and convert those Christmas/Easter folks to the true political faith!

[PAR35]

If it is true that she gave up her church for political gain, I’d scratch her from my list of possible candidates, no matter how ‘pure’ she seems on the issues.

Of course, I don’t have any respect for Henry IV, either.

[BenKenobi]

Well that would mean actually saying that you believed us to be Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ.

If you can do that, great.

[Steelfish]

“It is possible to love and respect individual Catholics and at the same time oppose the teaching and structure of the RCC”

Catholics won’t buy into this. It’s no different than saying you can love Christ but don’t buy into the Church He established though St. Peter and his apostles.

[BenKenobi]

Do you have respect for Bessie?

[DaveyB]

She is a (was) a Lutheran, which means that she was siding with the reformers particularly Martin Luther in the reformation dispute. The reformation --you know it was in all the papers! It was even in the history books before the NEA had it scrubbed. There are real and substantial theological and worldview differences between the doctrine of the Council of Trent and the reformed confessions. It is one thing to love Roman Catholic members,(we are to love our enemies) even value them as voters and citizens in the body politic, but to leave a church over the matter is to confound matters of doctrine with expediency.

Luther, Calvin, Knox and the Westminster assembly all labeled the Pope as either "an" or "the" antichrist. Mrs. Bachmann hate the theology and love the people, but never leave the church for the love of the world.

[BenKenobi]

It’s a really simple question.

As an evangelical protestant, they need to ask themselves,

“would I vote for someone who believed that I was a heretic?”

[ex-snook]

"Catholics won’t buy into this. It’s no different than saying you can love Christ but don’t buy into the Church He established though St. Peter and his apostles."

Do you think Jews would go for this? I like individual Jews but I don't buy into Israel.

[RoadTest]

“Well that would mean actually saying that you believed us to be Catholic brothers and sisters in Christ.

If you can do that, great.”

I know some Catholics are brothers and sisters in Christ.

[BenKenobi]

“love Roman Catholic members,(we are to love our enemies)”

Again, would you vote for someone who considered you the enemy? I sincerely doubt this to be true.