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Originally posted by edwhit
The pope has attempted to influence politics for all of pope history. The pope telling people how things should be done is nothing new.
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While this is true - and, frankly, I don't see anything wrong with it - I'm not sure how it fits into this thread. We're not talking about the pope here, or even the Catholic Church as a whole. This is just some random Bishop over in Denver.
Either way, the pope saying the "Catholic way to vote" would be a particular way is not as big a deal to me as it seems to be to others. It's no different than the head of the ACLU or the NRA saying voting for a particular candidate goes against their ideals. I still have the choice to vote however I please and they'll never know which way I voted. They're simply addressing the people who *claim* to adhere to certain ideals and explaining, as leaders of these movements, how to apply those ideals to their voting.