Links for 04/01/15 | National Catholic Reporter by MSW, MGB: The Indiana law is irrelevant, as what it intends to do is in direct violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bakeries, lunch counters, same bigotry. You don't need to do a same sex cake topper, but ya gotta bake the cake and make it taste good.
If Michelle Bachmann does not talk about and write about liberals, I would be shocked. As for the Church as a GOP problem - that's true. The USCCB is the Amen Corner of the National Right to Life Committee - which focuses on electoral campaigns and raises the abortion issue in ways that have nothing to do with the reality of the issue. That issue dependence, along with gay marriage, has turned the GOP into the party of the stupid - with abortion and marriage second only to overturning Obamacare and cutting taxes on the wealthy. And blocking immigration out of shear racism (which at least the Church is not part of). They would not help Latinos if it would get them votes - and it would. Mostly to keep a flow of underground workers from the border to meat packing plants that should still be unionized (they block that too. The GOP is running as designed - abortion to keep the base energized (with marriage) and every possible measure to aid business. Hyde, by the way, was a way for pro-choice Catholics to triangulate and say that they do not favor banning abortion (pluralism and all that) but won't dirty their hands funding it.
On St. John Paul, I am sure his early views, while visible later on, were muted by the anti-communism of his later years. Its not the atheisim that gets Marx a bad name, its that his words are very affective in organizing workers.
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