Thread: Obama's priorities...let's take a look
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Old 02-05-2008, 01:38 PM   #442 (permalink)
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Moore: Jeez, you know, I mean I go to Mass still. I'm a practicing Catholic. I've been that way all my life. But if I had -- if I had gotten up every time I heard a priest from the pulpit in my travels around the country say things like I've heard them say, that birth control is a sin, that women should not be priests, that women should have a different role in church ... King: You'd be walking out all the time?
My point exactly. Since when has the more extreme comments from some bluddy Pastor been meant to be representative of the views of intelligent people within the Congregation?
I think this depends on the content and the frequency. If the pastor in the church says such extreme things once in a blue moon, OK. But IMHO if the pastor continues to spout such rhetoric week in and week out then any reasonable person that does not agree with the rhetoric would find another church. I have not paid enough attention to the reverend Wright issue to say where he would fall in this spectrum (once in a blue moon – every week) – regardless of reverend Wright I do not agree with much of the Obama platform so his associations don’t really matter to me.

Plenty of folks spouting about how the Muslim community needs to deal with the fanatical spouting of the extreme Muslim imams and the such - why is reverend Wright so different. Granted the good reverends message is not near as extreme but if we are to expect the Muslim community to tone down the rhetoric with their religious teachers is it not only fair to expect the same of the Christian community?

Last bird I dated in the US was Catholic and while the Catholic Church certainly has certain views when it comes to abortion, contraception, gays, and women, there are priests out there that leave these topics to the individual and do not pepper their sermons with it. One just has to have the resolve to find a church/ pastor/ priest that does not diverge too much from ones own personal beliefs.
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