OH: Cincinnati's Catholic archbishop enters abortion amendment fight, calls it 'extreme'

[RandySF]

Cincinnati Archbishop Dennis Schnurr waded into Ohio’s political fight over a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights with a letter Saturday urging Catholics to reject it as extreme and dangerous.

Schnurr’s “letter to the faithful” signals the Catholic Church will be directly engaged in a political campaign in ways it rarely has been in the past.

“Some may insist that the Catholic Church should not be involved in politics,” Schnurr wrote. “However, the defense of life and care for women compels our participation in this critical moral issue.”

Tax-exempt religious organizations, such as the church, are barred from directly campaigning for political candidates, but federal law allows them to participate in campaigns for or against ballot measures like the one Ohio voters will decide on Nov. 7.



https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2023/08/12/cincinnati-catholic-archbishop-ohio-abortion-constitutional-amendment-ballot-issue/70581595007/

[hlthe2b]

2. I can't begin to say what I am thinking, but every damned male, Catholic or not, needs to shut

their damned trap if you oppose Choice.

[keep_left]

3. No doubt the Archbishop will be featured on Raymond Arroyo's simulacrum...

...of a news show, The World Over, on the execrable EWTN network. Every retrograde Church official, no matter how marginal, always gets the red-carpet treatment at EWTN. And the perpetually smug Raymond Arroyo can always be counted on to give them an obsequious, fawning interview lacking even a scintilla of critical journalistic competence.

[Scrivener7]

4. Asshole

[genxlib]

5. Also known as....

How you can be sure you are doing the right thing

[The Magistrate]

6. A Bishop Needs A Pimp For A Brother, Sir

Give him someone to look to for moral example....

[ellie]

7. I am a Catholic as is my entire family

And we all hate the Catholic Church.

[Freethinker65]

8. They care so much about the same women they refuse to give prominent positions in the Church

And why should this patriarchal Church have any say in reproductive healthcare of non-Catholic women?

[gratuitous]

9. Then, Archbishop Dennis, make it a moral issue

But for the actual people involved, it's an issue of health care, and there is no call for your personal morality to be enshrined as binding law for all.

[BOSSHOG]

10. To hell with separation of church and state

Nothing compels you to control women’s lives. And your defense of lives ends when there is a life and no longer a fetus. Let me be cruel. You want to indoctrinate that life to give money to the Catholic Church for the rest of that life. Waste money in Ohio like the Catholic Archbishop did last year in Kansas to the tune of 4 million. How much “care for women” would that 4 million provide.

Let the state start meddling in the affairs of church’s. Let’s do away with the separation nonsense since it’s a one sided game. Then let’s turn loose the assessors.

[GoCubsGo]

11. And, they wonder why their membership is in freefall...

I'm so glad I fled that bullshit decades ago.

[NowISeetheLight]

12. Church & State

Since we have Freedom of Religion here people have a choice to NOT follow your religious beliefs, or to have no beliefs at all.