The state has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he shall deem true.-- Pope Pius IX, Dec. 8th, 1864 [Source: p. 116, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion].
This seems to be the attitude of Rep. Palazzo and such was the attitude of his predecessor, Gene Taylor. Often when people have not wanted to elect members of the Roman Catholic Church to public office, it has been the well-grounded fear that this would be the attitude.
We should continue to ask our congress critters to do right by ALL of us, not just those who agree with their particular religious dogma. I applaud my fellow blogger for asking Palazzo about his position on women's reproductive rights.
When I was still a wee preschooler, my minister father warned me that as a woman I must never to go to a Catholic hospital as they would, per their religious beliefs, let the mother die any time there was a question of whether to save the mother vs. the fetus. Now, of course, we aren't getting that choice as the fundamentalist Protestants and Roman Catholics have joined together to try to prevent abortions and now (with the coming "personhood" amendment) they are going after birth control.
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