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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 02:07 PM Feb 2019

Julin Castro opens his presidential bid with a Catholicism aimed at Latino vote

From the article:

“The Our Lady of Guadalupe Church was really where my story started on the west side of the city,” Castro told Religion News Service in an interview days after the event. “I was baptized there, grew up not far from there, and went to school close to there. I wanted my announcement to present to the American people who I am, and my family and I have been Catholic for generations.”

His Catholicism, in other words, is not so much about how often he goes to worship — “I can’t say I go to church as much as I’d like,” he admitted — as it is about his family, his Mexican-American heritage and his progressive values. It’s also a form of the faith that, while sometimes obscured by other popularized visions of Catholicism, is deeply familiar to growing millions of Latino voters.


To read more:

https://religionnews.com/2019/02/14/julian-castro-opens-his-presidential-bid-with-a-catholicism-aimed-at-latino-vote/
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Julin Castro opens his presidential bid with a Catholicism aimed at Latino vote (Original Post) guillaumeb Feb 2019 OP
Dragging religion into it Faux pas Feb 2019 #1
I adore horses, ponies, miniature horses. sprinkleeninow Feb 2019 #2
I knew that. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #4
Well good luck with an appeal to religion. trotsky Feb 2019 #3
And if Castro were to be the eventual nominee? eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #9
How does he intend to reach out to secular voters? Lordquinton Feb 2019 #11
I have no idea. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #15
You sure seem to have no idea about anything Lordquinton Feb 2019 #17
So we should not post articles unless we claim to have all of the answers? guillaumeb Feb 2019 #18
Not at all what I said Lordquinton Feb 2019 #19
Read the article. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #21
So we're not allowed to comment on things posted here? Lordquinton Feb 2019 #22
You asked me how Castro would deal with a situation that you posed. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #23
I now have zero interest in his campaign. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #5
And if he were to be the eventual nominee? eom guillaumeb Feb 2019 #8
He won't. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #10
I don't mind him being religious edhopper Feb 2019 #6
Most voters see his religion as a commonality. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #7
Not a particularly defensable history. edhopper Feb 2019 #12
2000 years tradition of abuse Lordquinton Feb 2019 #13
One very tiny positive note, for atheists? Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #14
Well........... guillaumeb Feb 2019 #16
It could have been a positive note Lordquinton Feb 2019 #20

sprinkleeninow

(20,594 posts)
2. I adore horses, ponies, miniature horses.
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 03:52 PM
Feb 2019

Gonna get responses of horse nuggets on this story. God forbid an RC candidate expresses the faith he was born into.

Guillaume,
My friend, my brother.
I love you much!
La Bonne Bon Bon 😊

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
3. Well good luck with an appeal to religion.
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 03:56 PM
Feb 2019

Considering the largest bloc of voters is now the unaffiliated, it's an interesting strategy to be sure.

I like candidates who value secularism.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
11. How does he intend to reach out to secular voters?
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:48 PM
Feb 2019

Ones who are turned off by religious pandering, and also compromise the most loyal Bloc.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
17. You sure seem to have no idea about anything
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 02:25 PM
Feb 2019

But still seem qualified to comment on everything.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
18. So we should not post articles unless we claim to have all of the answers?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:11 PM
Feb 2019

An interesting philosophy.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
19. Not at all what I said
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:21 PM
Feb 2019

You make a lot of claims and accusations, but when you get asked things you tend to not know the answer. Or refuse to give an honest answer, which amounts to the same thing, really.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
21. Read the article.
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:25 PM
Feb 2019

Comment on the article.

It is that easy.

When you ask me how another person will address something that you bring up, something no covered in the actual post, and I answer that I do not know, why do you feel the need to attack?

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
22. So we're not allowed to comment on things posted here?
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:33 PM
Feb 2019

BTW, post 16 undermines any point you are attempting to make here.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
23. You asked me how Castro would deal with a situation that you posed.
Mon Feb 18, 2019, 05:18 PM
Feb 2019

And insulted me for not being able to speak for him.

Speaking on the topic of undermining points.

Voltaire2

(14,884 posts)
10. He won't.
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:25 PM
Feb 2019

Meanwhile there are a lot of other candidates, great progressive candidates, that haven’t chosen to put a fucked up homophobic misogynistic religion at the center of their campaign.

edhopper

(35,064 posts)
6. I don't mind him being religious
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 10:49 AM
Feb 2019

but to still align with th pedophile Catholic Church is problematic to say th least.

Also. The Lady of Guadalupe icon is a fake. That only blind believers could still accept as a miracle.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
7. Most voters see his religion as a commonality.
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 11:00 AM
Feb 2019

And being a member of the RCC is not aligning with pedophilia. It is aligning with a faith tradition of 2,000 years.

edhopper

(35,064 posts)
12. Not a particularly defensable history.
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:48 PM
Feb 2019

Sorry, I am among those who think staying in the RCC is enabling what they did.

Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
13. 2000 years tradition of abuse
Sat Feb 16, 2019, 02:48 PM
Feb 2019

He is showing that he is tone deaf on the subject, not a good look.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
16. Well...........
Sun Feb 17, 2019, 04:17 PM
Feb 2019

there was this:

His Catholicism, in other words, is not so much about how often he goes to worship — “I can’t say I go to church as much as I’d like,” he admitted — as it is about his family, his Mexican-American heritage and his progressive values. It’s also a form of the faith that, while sometimes obscured by other popularized visions of Catholicism, is deeply familiar to growing millions of Latino voters.

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