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Tax 'em, dammit. Tax every last one of 'em, the dress-wearing, child-molesting, woman-hating, collar-wearing, donation-hustling, selective-scripture-reading, power-lusting lot of 'em.

(via NYT)

DENVER, Oct. 9 - For Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, the highest-ranking Roman Catholic prelate in Colorado, a swing state, there is only one way for a faithful Catholic to vote in this presidential election, for President Bush and against Senator John Kerry.

"The church says abortion is a foundational issue,'' the archbishop explained to a group of Catholic college students gathered in a sports bar here on Friday night. He stopped short of telling them whom to vote for, but he reminded them of Mr. Kerry's support for abortion rights. He did not explicitly endorse Mr. Bush, but pointed out the potential impact his re-election could have on Roe v. Wade.

To the dismay of liberal Catholics and some other bishops, traditional church concerns about the death penalty or war are often not mentioned.

Archbishop Chaput said a vote for a candidate like Mr. Kerry who supports abortion rights or embryonic stem cell research would be a sin that must be confessed before receiving Communion.

"If you vote this way, are you cooperating in evil?" he asked. "And if you know you are cooperating in evil, should you go to confession? The answer is yes."

Archbishop Chaput says he has had no contact with either campaign or political party. He says his sole contact with the White House has been his appointment to the President's Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Oh yeah. No conflict there, no sirr-ree bob.

I know, I know. We're supposed to make nice with the Invisible Cloud Being's earthbound buddies, and if we say anything mean about them their feelings will get an ouchie and they'll pout and go vote for their Jesus-talk-spouting Preznitwit.

My apologies to anybody who thinks the only reason peace, freedom and justice are Good Things is because Jehovah said so. I prefer the "we hold these truths to be self-evident" angle myself. But I'm just a little bit steamed right now.