We're not about to join the local and national debate over whether a Catholic politician has an obligation to follow the church's moral teachings. Politicians can obviously belong to any religion or none, so when they ignore or bend the teachings of a particular faith that is a matter between them and that group of worshippers.
But we do take exception to what Attorney General Ken Salazar said the other day when he rebuked Archbishop Charles Chaput for his uncompromising comments regarding a Catholic politician's duty. Salazar said if the archbishop was trying to influence voter behavior, "he's gone beyond the line of what should not be breached in our American democracy, where we believe fundamentally in the separation of church and state."
Why aren't the majority of newspapers this level-headed? Link here.
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