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What's your point? The Catholic church is not forcing anyone to believe anything. It is merely exercising its right not to be made to pay for something it believes is immoral and sinful. Religious liberty. Get it?
My point being one you brought up, of people's religious freedom. Why should religious leaders present a case for an individual's freedoms, complete with threats? We must disagree on the premise of freedoms based on individualism (mine) versus collectivism (yours).
"I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?"
- Barry Goldwater
My point being one you brought up, of people's religious freedom. Why should religious leaders present a case for an individual's freedoms, complete with threats? We must disagree on the premise of freedoms based on individualism (mine) versus collectivism (yours).
"I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?"
- Barry Goldwater
Why don't folks who don't believe in the doctrines/beliefs of the Catholic church.............find a church/religion more suited to their selective beliefs ?
Why don't folks who don't believe in the doctrines/beliefs of the Catholic church.............find a church/religion more suited to their selective beliefs ?
That goes for both Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi .
Won't that put pretty much every catholic out of Catholicism, and the majority of those left would be their leaders?
Now, if you want to worship religious leaders and dance to their whims, continue doing so. Do not expect the rest of us to have an ounce of respect for you playing political games with it, however.
Won't that put pretty much every catholic out of Catholicism, and the majority of those left would be their leaders?
Now, if you want to worship religious leaders and dance to their whims, continue doing so. Do not expect the rest of us to have an ounce of respect for you playing political games with it, however.
Find a religion that suits your beliefs and quit whining !
He might. Or, he may not. People are individuals. Not everybody wants to dance at the whims of religious leaders like you do. If churches don't want government influence, they should get out of "business" of doing anything but exercising RELIGION.
Pelosi is for Pelosi. Anybody who thinks otherwise is a disconnected boob.
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