Bishop Paprocki: "Voters who support Democratic Party candidates are voting for 'intrinsic evils'"

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Wednesday September 26, 2012 · 1:17 PM PDT

2012/09/26 · 13:17

Yet another out-of-touch idiot conservative Catholic Bishop making the news, and this one is from the Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, Thomas John Paprocki.

Bishop Paprocki used distortionist falsehoods by baselessly suggesting that the "Democratic Party is 'anti-God'."

Right Wing Watch:

The Roman Catholic Bishop of Springfield, Illinois, is warning that the Democratic Party has endorsed “intrinsic evils” and consequently, voters who back Democratic candidates have put their eternal salvation at risk. In the Catholic Times, the official newspaper of the Springfield diocese, Bishop Thomas John Paprocki uses the manufactured controversy about mentioning “God” in the Democratic Platform to argue that the Democrats are hostile to faith, and went on to attack Democrats for endorsing gay rights and opposing the criminalization of abortion. He said those two planks demonstrate that the Democrats “explicitly endorse intrinsic evils,” while noting that he has “read the Republican Party Platform and there is nothing in it that supports or promotes an intrinsic evil or a serious sin.”
Paprocki concludes with a warning that while he is “not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against,” backing the Democratic Party may put your eternal salvation at risk: “a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy.”

Editor's Note: The Diocese of Springfield In Illinois' jurisdiction includes my home county Madison.

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