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How Much Influence Should Religious Leaders Have on Political Issues?
Submitted by Ali Hassan Massoud on Mon, 2007-02-19 17:00
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"In sum, the US Catholic Bishops' support for the minimum wage is not a matter magisterial teaching on faith or morals to which Catholics are obliged to assent. Instead, unlike abortion or euthanasia, raising the minimum wage is a prudential matter as to which faithful Catholics are free to exercise their own judgment." Indeed they are. We all are.
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