Pope orders NJ laws to Conform to his Decrees

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Dammit tw, I'm starting to suspect you're being deliberately obtuse here. NO ONE is saying we should let the pope have control over our government. NO ONE has yet specifically stated in this thread that the pope is infallible.

All anyone is saying is... read this sentence carefully... the governor is a hypocrite by calling himself a devout Catholic. That one bishop in the article thinks this means he needs to change his vote, BUT it seems everyone here simply thinks that he should stop calling himself devout because it is a lie--he is not behaving in a devout manner, according to the definition of Catholicism. What you define as devout is NOT how Catholics define it. To put it another way, I am not a devout vegetarian who just chooses to keep her eating beliefs out of her cooking. I am simply not a vegetarian, and I would be hypocritical to call myself a devout one.

People vote based on what they believe is right. To be a devout Catholic equals a certain set of beliefs that you should fully expect him to vote according to. If the fact that he is a devout Catholic means you don't want to vote for him, great. Wonderful. Do that. But calling himself a devout Catholic (which is to say devout by the Catholic definition NOT BY YOURS) is hypocrisy if he doesn't behave like it. He should stop calling himself that.