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To: Alex Murphy

Archbishop Chaput: I can’t vote for pro-abortion Obama
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/18/archbishop-chaput-i-cant-vote-for-pro-abortion-obama/

There’s a current conversation at hotair on this topic you might enjoy. In the 2010 elections, the Catholic vote turned 20 points for Republicans.

The basic problem Churches are having is the inability to speak politics from the pulpit.


4 posted on 09/19/2012 9:27:39 AM PDT by bronxville (Margaret Sanger - “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,Â)
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To: bronxville

All priests can address ISSUES from the pulpit — addressing abortion, euthanasia, contraception, etc.

What they cannot do is endorse a candidate.

Hopefully we will hear more of the issues talk — I know my priest does. He talks about the holocaust of abortion all the time.


8 posted on 09/19/2012 9:58:17 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: bronxville
Archbishop Chaput: I can’t vote for pro-abortion Obama

Also posted as a thread here on Free Republic.

There’s a current conversation at hotair on this topic you might enjoy. In the 2010 elections, the Catholic vote turned 20 points for Republicans.

I'd love to hear more about it - why not start/discuss the topic right here on Free Republic? I'd rather do that, than drive traffic somewhere else.

Before I forget (again), there's one more thread I want to bring up that goes along with this discussion: The Mythical Catholic Vote: The Harmful Consequences of Political Assimilation

The basic problem Churches are having is the inability to speak politics from the pulpit.

I respectfully offer another take on it - the basic problem Churches are having is the inability to fund themselves if they should speak politics from the pulpit. They can do it anytime they want, if their congregation would tithe a little more, and they're willing to have a nationwide conversation re the legitimacy of the 501(c)3 designation.

9 posted on 09/19/2012 10:03:44 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Living rent-free inside the heads of FRoman Catholics since 2006)
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