Well, too many use voting as a means of exonerating themselves or excusing themselves from any further political involvement.
Some might argue that the purpose of voting is to keep people from taking other political activity. It channels peoples political inpulses into the voting booth.
Your vote rarely matters. The outcome of elections determined by the person who draws the district lines. Let me draw the map and I will gladly permanently give up my right to vote.
Are we going to vote our ways out of this mess? Check the bulletin the first Sunday of NOV. Rarely is there a reminder of the obligation to vote.
There are exceptions. The conservative Catholics in Mass. campaigned hard for Scott Brown. But they are Mass. Democrats and it is part of their culture to know how to throw a punch.
Maybe this is a big enough civil rights issue that even the unchurched will begin to care. Most Americans who are not outright atheists would probably agree it’s absurd in America to force people of any religion of the civilized world to do things they hold to be evil. If potential draftees could become conscientious objectors on religious grounds, then there shouldn’t even be a question about what “medical procedures” a church might not support on religious grounds, even while not being able to actually stop anybody from carrying them out on their own dime.
Too many churches lay down with dogs, and have gotten up with fleas. While the call to “do penance” (or repent) is not further elucidated in these announcements, surely the clear implication is that activists should be repenting from the role they played in cozying up to Caesar.