Kansas Bishops: Catholics have no choice but to vote McSame

[Elfdart]

I thought the Church followed Thomas Aquinas on the subject of rape: It was preferable to masturbation because there was a chance of conception.

[Feil]

I guess a vote for Dungeon Master McCain in order to please Catholic bishops is a vote in favor of napalming children and molesting them.

Not necessarily in that order.

napalming children?

Of course not. White Phosphorous is considerably more efficient!

[Patrick Degan]

If the Catholic church is officially engaging in political campaigning, maybe they should be regulated as a lobby group. Maybe we should demand their financial records to see who is supporting them

And it would have the side-benefit of asset examination for the priesthood kiddie-raper cases as well.

What's really amusing is how the Catholic Church still think they control the world and that its adherents mindlessly do what the bishops tell them. Hasn't been that way with a good chunk of American Catholics for decades now.

[Patrick Degan]

Like any immense organization the Catholic Church has right and left wings; I guess the dioceses in Kansas are very conservative. Big surprise there, but I really doubt it will have much effect. The Catholic Church in the USA is made up mostly from moderate Christians (more extreme people tend to leave in favor of evangelical sects). The voters theoretically most likely to follow the Church's lead, Hispanics, are just simply not going to vote for a political party that so obviously hates them.

Basically this is the line the bishops would take whether the diocese is liberal or not. Back in the 1990s in New Orleans, Archbishop Phillip Hannan came right out and said that voting Mary Landrieu for the senate would be immoral because of her pro-choice stance. The good Catholics of New Orleans went out and voted Landrieu anyway.

[Melchior]

Greed and theft are also suppose to incur excommunication as they are mortal sins.

Mortal sins do not have much to do with excommunication; you don't get excommunicated for being generically evil in the perception of the Church. You have to do something that hurts the cohesiveness of religion and the papal supremacy (for example, ordaining bishops on you own).
Murderers are welcomed to repent.
Weren't you a Catholic?

[Pelranius]

I thought the Church followed Thomas Aquinas on the subject of rape: It was preferable to masturbation because there was a chance of conception.

Well, a desperate woman could always come by and take the unused seed to procreate.