Election blurring of church, state separation draws complaints

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8. Well its not just a few Bishops

I am a very active practicing Catholic, and this problem is more wide spread then just a few Bishops.

On election day, ah hell in the weeks leading up to the election IMHO there was way to much political influence happening. I saw so many people wearing robme buttons on parishioners it wasn't even funny. I have no problem with regular parishioners doing this but many of them were ushers and EM's. Those people should have to remove that crap but they didn't. I'm 100% positive if I wore an Obama anything I'd have been told to remove it.

Ok the buttons were just one small thing.

In Florida we had all those amendments and there was one #8 that was labeled "Protect Religious Freedom Rights" or something to that effect. Anyway like most amendments in this election the name had nothing to do with the amendment. We already voted on Freedom of religion, plus not only is this right in the US Constitution but also the State Constitution. The amendment was about using tax dollars to fund religious schools.

Now our Church held a big meeting that they wanted everyone at where they talked about the right way Catholics should vote.

In the bulletins they had voter guides. These were very carefull not go over that thin line of endorsing stuff but just barley. See the thing is on the Sunday before the election people would put flyers on the cars with this voting guide only this one is no longer abiding by the flyers in the bulletin. These flyers blatantly said Good Catholics should vote this way.

To the Pastors credit he was out in the parking lot removing the flyers in between the masses. But the parishioners don't get it. One person was mad that the flyers were removed. She thought they should be left on all the cars.

There were signs for Amendment #8 on Church property. Now they might be able to do that because it was an amendment but I personally don't think it should be allowed.

I personally threw away stacks of robme/lying stickers, that were left on the tables next to the bulletins. Parishioners left them and would try to restock them. I trashed them.