Advocate: pope hated gays so much he violated U.S. election laws

Democrats_win

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Mon Apr-04-05 09:11 PM
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Advocate: pope hated gays so much he violated U.S. election laws

Edited on Mon Apr-04-05 09:12 PM by Democrats_win

http://advocate.com/exclusive_detail.asp?id=15187&page=1

--snip from page 2

During the American presidential campaign of 2004, we saw George W. Bush travel to the Vatican and, with hat in hand, ask the pope to have his bishops help him win election. True to form, the �red hats� of the American church chimed in shortly thereafter with a continuing babble of antigay rhetoric and pastoral pronouncements in an attempt to retain the antigay president�a clear violation of American laws that grant churches billions of dollars in tax-free privileges on the condition that they stay out of electoral politics.

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TaleWgnDg

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Mon Apr-04-05 09:20 PM
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1. More . . .

Edited on Mon Apr-04-05 09:21 PM by TaleWgnDg

United States Medal of Freedom awarded by GWBush to Pope John Paul II
while GWBush was at the Vatican before GWBush's 2nd election
(this is an official whitehouse.gov "news" photograph)
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Democrats_win

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Mon Apr-04-05 09:31 PM
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2. "Whirled Leaders"

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mikehiggins

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Mon Apr-04-05 09:43 PM
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3. Bull

Does anyone think Bush had to go to the Vatican to enlist the Pope in his camp? Would this be before or after JP2 denounced the Iraq invasion? The Church has a long history of homophobia and claiming that something "special" was laid on to help Dubya is just childish.

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Lexingtonian

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Mon Apr-04-05 10:19 PM
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5. August 2004

A remarkable coincidence.

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starwolf

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Mon Apr-04-05 10:06 PM
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4. Actually as head of a sovereign nation

the Pope is/was not subject to our laws. I also don't believe he did anything to help out Bush. Their views coincided on gays and diverged on Iraq. The Advocate needs better editing at times.

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Meeker Morgan

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Tue Apr-05-05 05:39 AM
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6. Bush not the Pope violated the election laws ...

... and not just by getting some priests to electioneer for him.

Hell, Clinton sometimes gave speeches in churches, but he never stole an election.

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