Philippines health law tests power of Catholic church

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A strangely coincidental comment by a super-conservative guy at church this morning; he came in fuming that he'd just heard on the radio that SCOTUS might declare same-sex marriage constitutional. "I sure hope not!" he declared loudly, before taking his seat with his fiance with whom he's been living the past year or more while awaiting finalization of his divorce. Yessiree, a lot of room to preach. Or throw stones, as the case might be.