{"id":7595,"date":"2004-03-31T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T09:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/will_the_bishops_confront_kerry.html"},"modified":"2004-03-31T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T09:28:45","slug":"will_the_bishops_confront_kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/03\/will_the_bishops_confront_kerry.html","title":{"rendered":"Will the Bishops Confront Kerry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHow does Kerry square his voting record with the moral teachings of his church? He told the Post-Dispatch that “it’s not appropriate in the United States for a legislator to legislate your personal religious belief for the rest of the country.”<\/p>\n

But the Vatican’s note rebutted this well-worn argument. The church must be separate from the state, it said, but the state cannot be separate from morality. “(N)o Catholic can appeal to the principle of pluralism or to the autonomy of lay involvement in political life to support policies affecting the common good which compromise or undermine fundamental ethical requirements,” it said. “This is not a question of ‘confessional values’ per se, because such ethical precepts are rooted in human nature itself and belong to the natural moral law.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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