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Abortion foes cross line with attacks on elected officials (BARF ALERT)
Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/1/03 | Marjie Lundstrom

Posted on 02/03/2003 2:08:39 PM PST by Gophack

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:47:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: madprof98
You may be right, but Bishop Weigand has been a faithful servant and shepherd, and I have been impressed. We have many good priests in our diocese, and some not-so-good ones. I really think things are getting better, liturgical abuses are being addressed and corrected, and those who attend Mass regularly are more devout and conservative (I use that word loosely).
41 posted on 02/03/2003 8:18:29 PM PST by Gophack
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To: ElkGroveDan
I've been a practicing Catholic for a long time, and I was raised to believe in the separation between church and state.

I'm with you about Gray, has he not forgotten the Ten Commandments handed down and supposedly adhered to by all Christians. "Thou shalt not kill", which is one....Isn't this precisely what is happening in the arena of ABORTION...So, Mr. Gray, will you follow God's law or some man made abomination of a law????I know your response will likely be: "but we must separate the two".....REALLY!!!!

42 posted on 02/03/2003 9:28:09 PM PST by ejo
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To: Gophack; Desdemona
But explain, please, how Bishop Weigand -- for all his religious and moral authority -- has any business singling out an elected politician from the flock and publicly insisting he change his views?

Maybe this author can explain her views while considering that Gray Davis signed a law making it MANDATORY for medical students to learn abortion. Don't they have a choice. Shouldn't Catholics or others who are against abortion have the CHOICE to not perform abortions?

43 posted on 02/04/2003 2:05:22 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: ejo
"I've been a practicing Catholic for a long time, and I was raised to believe in the separation between church and state."

Number One: the state has no right to create or mandate a religion.

Number Two: The state has no right to impinge on or intefere with a person's or a Church's right to practice their faith.

Number Three: The Church has the right and duty to comment on public policy and public morals for the public good.

44 posted on 02/04/2003 8:51:12 PM PST by victim soul
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