http://news.yahoo.com/heeding-francis-iowa-catholic-leaders-pressure-16-field-071300960--election.html
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Roman Catholic leaders in the early voting state of Iowa will call Thursday on candidates for president to follow the teachings of Pope Francis and focus as much on the environment and income inequality in 2016 as they have in past elections on opposing gay marriage and abortion.
In that major teaching document, the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics called for a "bold sweeping revolution" to correct what he sees as a "structurally perverse" economic system that allows the rich to exploit the poor and has turned the Earth into an "immense pile of filth."
The push from Pates and other bishops in Iowa threatens to disrupt the historically reliable alliance of evangelical Christians and conservative Roman Catholic voters, putting pressure on Republicans who have leaned on their religious faith to guide them on social issues.
It will also focus attention on how the six Roman Catholic seeking the 2016 Republican presidential nomination — former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former New York Gov. George Pataki, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum — will wrestle with a pope's teachings on economics and climate change that clash with traditional Republican ideology.
"Pope Francis hasn't changed church teaching, but he has given greater salience to social welfare and environmental issues, which has put Catholic Republicans in an awkward position," said John Green, director of the University of Akron's Bliss Institute of Applied Politics, "particularly if they want to also claim, like many of them do, that religion is important to them."
this is where the rubber meets the road if the religious right is as they say religious which way will they go honor Pope Frankie or honor their dedication to right wing politics which IMO falls far short of what the Pope is asking. we know the big opposition will come from the evangelicals who i'm sure will ignore because they are not Catholic and not bound to any acknowledgement of Pope Frankie or his wishes besides they have their own laws and God.
so for the right wing and republicans who is your master????? i'm rooting for Pope Frankie and i'm Baptist.
