Catholics hear anti-Obama letter in church

[LeftishBrit]

153. That is disgusting...

and what is it about some people currently using churches to spread right-wing messages against specific candidates? Even here, where there is much less of it, I happen to know that in 2009 the loonytunes Andrea 'The world is 4000 years old' Minichiello Williams, founder of Christian Concern for Our Nation, was invited to give a 'sermon' at a local Anglican church where she recommended that our MP should be replaced in the next election by a 'pro-life candidate'. (Unfortunately he was indeed defeated by a pro-life Tory.) I doubt very much that that sort of thing is actually allowed here, but nothing was done about it.

I do NOT think that this sort of thing represents Catholics, or Anglicans, in general; in fact in England much of the Anglican leadership is quite liberal, as are many Catholics. But the attempts by right-wingers to influence both church and state can get quite ugly.