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...editorial in the Baptist Standard (circ. 361,116), the nation's largest religious weekly. "Puerto Rico is American soil." In Puerto Rico, three Roman Catholic bishops had declared it a sin to vote for a man opposed by the church. The man was three-term Gover nor Luis Muñoz Marin, up for re-election on the same day the continental U.S., but not Puerto Rico, votes in a presidential election for Nixon or Kennedy (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...speech that he might well have to make. At week's end came the second pastoral letter from Puerto Rico's implacable hiearchy. This time the bishops went out of their way to see that there was no mistaking their meaning: not only was a vote for Muñoz "inevitably a sin" but Puerto Rican Catholics were bluntly urged to vote for the church-sponsored Christian Action Party rather than for the opposition Independence or Republican Statehood Parties. To this the chancellor of the Ponce diocese, Msgr. Victor Nazario, added a warning. "Any Catholic who preaches...
Until a fortnight ago, when the island's three Roman Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter forbidding Catholics to vote for Governor Luis Muñoz Marin and his Popular Democratic Party, Puerto Rico's gubernatorial campaign was a race without an issue. Muñoz' opponent, Luis Ferré, candidate of the Statehood Republican Party and a partner in the island's largest private enterprise (Ferré Industries), had demanded a plebiscite on statehood, but foxy old Muñoz sidetracked that issue. His party slipped a rule through the legislature that no statehood plebiscite...
...last week, as controversy over the bishops' prohibition boiled across the island, the campaign at last had its issue: the separation of church and commonwealth. Aboard his campaign bus Muñoz toured the countryside to defend himself against the bishops. "The day you begin to follow the political orders of the clergy," he cried, "that day you will lose your freedom." Muñoz pointed out that the legality of birth control, one of the bishops' points of protest, was established in 1937 by the Statehood Republicans, not by his Popular Democrats...
...Muňoz dismisses the vote-getting strength of the new party, which he estimates at 50,000 votes out of the island's 900,000. But Muňoz does worry about the "explosive emotions" that a clerical party might arouse, and wishes the bishop would stay out of politics...