"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
How Much Influence Should Religious Leaders Have on Political Issues?
"In sum, the US Catholic Bishops' support for the minimum wage is not a matter magisterial teaching on faith or morals to which Catholics are obliged to assent. Instead, unlike abortion or euthanasia, raising the minimum wage is a prudential matter as to which faithful Catholics are free to exercise their own judgment." Indeed they are. We all are.
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