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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <1481@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 00:11:36 GMT
- References: <13870@texsun.Central.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:
- : >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.
-
- Absolutely correct. But a religion which espouses the doctrine
- that priests must be male because they are in the apostolic
- succesion, and the apostles were male, should not cry foul when
- people criticize that idea; it's not "Catholic bashing"; it's
- discussion.
-
- Bill
-