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Related: About this forumJulin Castro opens his presidential bid with a Catholicism aimed at Latino vote
From the article:
His Catholicism, in other words, is not so much about how often he goes to worship I cant say I go to church as much as Id like, he admitted as it is about his family, his Mexican-American heritage and his progressive values. Its 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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https://religionnews.com/2019/02/14/julian-castro-opens-his-presidential-bid-with-a-catholicism-aimed-at-latino-vote/
Faux pas
(15,428 posts)loses my vote right out of the gate. Too bad.
sprinkleeninow
(20,594 posts)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 😊
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)And that is often the responses from a very small group.
trotsky
(49,533 posts)Considering the largest bloc of voters is now the unaffiliated, it's an interesting strategy to be sure.
I like candidates who value secularism.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Ones who are turned off by religious pandering, and also compromise the most loyal Bloc.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)But I assume that Castro has considered that.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)But still seem qualified to comment on everything.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)An interesting philosophy.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)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)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)BTW, post 16 undermines any point you are attempting to make here.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)And insulted me for not being able to speak for him.
Speaking on the topic of undermining points.
Voltaire2
(14,884 posts)guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)Voltaire2
(14,884 posts)Meanwhile there are a lot of other candidates, great progressive candidates, that havent chosen to put a fucked up homophobic misogynistic religion at the center of their campaign.
edhopper
(35,064 posts)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)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)Sorry, I am among those who think staying in the RCC is enabling what they did.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)He is showing that he is tone deaf on the subject, not a good look.
Bretton Garcia
(970 posts)He says he doesn't go to church much.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)there was this:
His Catholicism, in other words, is not so much about how often he goes to worship I cant say I go to church as much as Id like, he admitted as it is about his family, his Mexican-American heritage and his progressive values. Its 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.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)but he Gman had to go snuff that out.