Considering that that particular thread was about a legal, Constitutional issue, there was no need for it to be made a caucus thread.
Granted it involved a Catholic man, but it was NOT about Catholic theology or doctrine, or any other Church related issue. It could have happened to a Protestant or Jew or Hindu and it would still be as wrong.
I suppose next time, someone could just post the exact same link in News/Activism and just put up with the whining about it being a dupe.
You just can’t win with some people.
I think that is the best way to handle such an issue. I wouldn't expect much complaint about duplication if the same article was posted if one was in news/activism, and the other as a Caucus religion thread.
And it would make perfect sense -- it could well be that a story has general appeal and discussion would be open to all, but that a particular faith might want to discuss aspects of the story from the point of view OF their faith, and that discussion would best happen if only adherents to their faith were involved.
IN that case, you would expect there to be a divergence of discussion in the two threads; the common complaint i have about duplicate threads are that the same things get talked about in two places and we don't all get the wisdom of the other posters in a thread we missed.
That wouldn't be the cases with two threads that had different PURPOSES of existance.