The Fools Strike Again

[Occhidiangela]

I'm going to have to agree here.  There's too many issues to say that because you voted for one person, you supported them with a speciic issue.  There may have been certain economic key points that the people who voted for Kerry may have disliked in Bush that led them to vote the way they did.  In something such as this, it seems stupid to point out the one problem, even though there were likely just as many problems possibly picked out from voting for Bush if you felt like digging for it.

I personally hope this act does not go through.  There are many blind faithful who will listen if the church says "Vote this way or you're out!"  The reason there's laws against this is that they have a nice little bonus from being tax-exempt, so they should be able to sway the political tides towards something they want.  If this bill goes through, there will be much more news like this and probably some big news around a presedential election concerning something similar.
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Devil's advocate.

It seems to me that any Church that presumes to dictate to its laiety how to vote is engaging in self destructive behavior. It is for precisely for such reasons that I did not, and shall never, undergo Catacumen and become a member of the Catholic Church, a course of action I considered after I got married to a wonderful Catholic woman. The Sacred Heart Church opened my eyes on Catholic Doctrine, and laid out for me the "you are for us, or against us, and these matters are non negotiable, as well as not abstainable." Right, I'll meet you in Hell, Deacon, where your Vanity will bring you, as mine will me. It was an interesting conversation. Three weeks later, our son was baptized in that same Church. Those people thought I was certifiable. (Hmmm, they may be right.)

The Church that crosses that line is saying to its membership "my way, or the highway." Some folks will hit the road, congregation shrinks. Is that healthy for the church in question? The departers are likely to be people of strong mind, self confident people. Not the kind of folks I want to throw out of a congregation, but then, I am not a clergyman. Maybe all they want is sheep to shear. Or, like in a marriage about to fall apart, they are bound and determined to be Right.

Occhi