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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <13870@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:19:32 GMT
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- >I dunno, I've never seen any polling data on this- but I'd imagine
- >that a majority of the American people (perhaps a slim one)
- >would feel that keeping women out of the priesthood was rather
- >silly.
-
- Point is, the bishop's conference had no power to decide and rule upon
- anything of the sort. The issue in question was a pastoral, a statement
- of their outlook. It was the media which hyped a strawman issue.
-
- Since the Constitution allows for the separation of CHurch and State, the
- American people do not, of course, vote on what rules or beliefs the members
- of this or that particular religion should freely choose to accept, no matter
- how silly those beliefs might appear.
-