Quote Originally Posted by JaneV2.0 View Post
That pesky separation of church and state is just a fleeting annoyance to most, apparently.

But the question remains: why is it that Catholic/Christian candidates and lobby groups are all aflame about issues Jesus never mentioned, like homosexuality and abortion, yet staunchly opposed to most of his teachings on materialism, taking care of the "least among us," the money-changers, etc. and why do Catholic candidates and lobbyists pointedly ignore the Pope's pronouncements along the same lines? (Notice my beef here is with hypocrisy, not lobbying per se.)
So you object both to candidates’ opinions being informed by Catholic doctrine, and to candidates’ opinions being insufficiently orthodox? I have been a Catholic my entire life; and while I have encountered much good, have yet to meet perfection. If anything short of that mark disqualifies a candidate on a hypocrisy basis, we will have trouble keeping the government staffed.

Look at our current President, for instance. The champion of public campaign finance who becomes the first major party candidate to reject it. The man who sees fit to lecture the Supreme Court about Citizens United in his State of the Union address, but steers contributors toward favorably disposed super PACs.