Political Anathema

Fresh from their organization's scandal over pederasty, some Catholic Bishops have decided upon this:

"The church says abortion is a foundational issue,'' the archbishop explained to a group of Catholic college students gathered in a sports bar here in this swing state on Friday night. He stopped short of telling them whom to vote for, but he reminded them of Mr. Kerry's support for abortion rights. And he pointed out the potential impact his re-election could have on Roe v. Wade.

"Supreme Court cases can be overturned, right?" he asked.

Archbishop Chaput, who has never explicitly endorsed a candidate, is part of a group of bishops intent on throwing the weight of the church into the elections.

Galvanized by battles against same-sex marriage and stem cell research and alarmed at the prospect of a President Kerry - who is Catholic but supports abortion rights - these bishops and like-minded Catholic groups are blanketing churches with guides identifying abortion, gay marriage and the stem cell debate as among a handful of "non-negotiable issues."

Meanwhile, somewhere between 14,000 to 20,000 deaths in a war that met not a single precept of the "Just War" coctrine which the Catholic Church has followed by half a millenium, nor no notice that the Pope himself has condemned the War as unjust.

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American Democrats, the new Albigensians.