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Church v. State in Puerto Rico...
...article "Fuss in Puerto Rico" might be more appropriately entitled "Fuzz in P.R.", for it is indeed fuzzy thinking knowingly to vote for a party which uses public funds to run birth-control clinics, a party which has repeatedly refused to grant one hour a week off public school time (as is done in the U.S.) for religious instruction of the pupil's choice; it is indeed fuzzy thinking to vote for this party and still claim to be a Catholic...
Despite any and all mitigating circumstances which the Roman church might claim for its actions in Puerto Rico, when any body seeks to take upon itself the prerogative of directing the voting of its adherents it is striking a blow at freedom, no matter where it is done in the world. To have it done in an area that is under the protection of the U.S. Constitution is a deadly blow indeed...
...manner of action of three Puerto Rican Catholic bishops is just as bad as the attitude and action of several American ministers of religion who directly or indirectly persuade or force their subjects not to vote for a Catholic candidate for the presidency. In Puerto Rico the action was not motivated by a religion issue, but rather by a moral issue involving principles and practices contrary to sound Christianity, while here in the U.S. there is no moral issue involved, but only bigotry...
...three Roman Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico got a stinging lesson: Puerto Rican voters hold to the mainland U.S. view on separation of church and state. Though 90% Catholic, and warned by a pair of pastoral letters that supporting Governor Luis Muñoz Marin's Popular Democrats could lead to excommunication (TIME. Nov. 7), the voters gave well-liked Muñoz Marin 58% of the vote and a fourth straight term as Governor. Statehood Republican Candidate Luis Ferré trailed with 250,000 votes to 456,000 for Muñoz Marin. The church-backed Christian Action...