Julin Castro opens his presidential bid with a Catholicism aimed at Latino vote

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

“The Our Lady of Guadalupe Church was really where my story started on the west side of the city,” Castro told Religion News Service in an interview days after the event. “I was baptized there, grew up not far from there, and went to school close to there. I wanted my announcement to present to the American people who I am, and my family and I have been Catholic for generations.”

His Catholicism, in other words, is not so much about how often he goes to worship — “I can’t say I go to church as much as I’d like,” he admitted — as it is about his family, his Mexican-American heritage and his progressive values. It’s also a form of the faith that, while sometimes obscured by other popularized visions of Catholicism, is deeply familiar to growing millions of Latino voters.

To read more:

https://religionnews.com/2019/02/14/julian-castro-opens-his-presidential-bid-with-a-catholicism-aimed-at-latino-vote/

[Faux pas]

1. Dragging religion into it

loses my vote right out of the gate. Too bad.

[sprinkleeninow]

2. I adore horses, ponies, miniature horses.

Gonna get responses of horse nuggets on this story. God forbid an RC candidate expresses the faith he was born into.

Guillaume,
My friend, my brother.
I love you much!
La Bonne Bon Bon 😊

[guillaumeb]

4. I knew that.

And that is often the responses from a very small group.

[trotsky]

3. Well good luck with an appeal to religion.

Considering the largest bloc of voters is now the unaffiliated, it's an interesting strategy to be sure.

I like candidates who value secularism.

[guillaumeb]

9. And if Castro were to be the eventual nominee? eom

[Lordquinton]

11. How does he intend to reach out to secular voters?

Ones who are turned off by religious pandering, and also compromise the most loyal Bloc.

[guillaumeb]

15. I have no idea.

But I assume that Castro has considered that.

[Lordquinton]

17. You sure seem to have no idea about anything

But still seem qualified to comment on everything.

[guillaumeb]

18. So we should not post articles unless we claim to have all of the answers?

An interesting philosophy.

[Lordquinton]

19. Not at all what I said

You make a lot of claims and accusations, but when you get asked things you tend to not know the answer. Or refuse to give an honest answer, which amounts to the same thing, really.

[guillaumeb]

21. Read the article.

Comment on the article.

It is that easy.

When you ask me how another person will address something that you bring up, something no covered in the actual post, and I answer that I do not know, why do you feel the need to attack?

[Lordquinton]

22. So we're not allowed to comment on things posted here?

BTW, post 16 undermines any point you are attempting to make here.

[guillaumeb]

23. You asked me how Castro would deal with a situation that you posed.

And insulted me for not being able to speak for him.

Speaking on the topic of undermining points.

[Voltaire2]

5. I now have zero interest in his campaign.

[guillaumeb]

8. And if he were to be the eventual nominee? eom

[Voltaire2]

10. He won't.

Meanwhile there are a lot of other candidates, great progressive candidates, that haven’t chosen to put a fucked up homophobic misogynistic religion at the center of their campaign.

[edhopper]

6. I don't mind him being religious

but to still align with th pedophile Catholic Church is problematic to say th least.

Also. The Lady of Guadalupe icon is a fake. That only blind believers could still accept as a miracle.

[guillaumeb]

7. Most voters see his religion as a commonality.

And being a member of the RCC is not aligning with pedophilia. It is aligning with a faith tradition of 2,000 years.

[edhopper]

12. Not a particularly defensable history.

Sorry, I am among those who think staying in the RCC is enabling what they did.

[Lordquinton]

13. 2000 years tradition of abuse

He is showing that he is tone deaf on the subject, not a good look.

[Bretton Garcia]

14. One very tiny positive note, for atheists?

He says he doesn't go to church much.

[guillaumeb]

16. Well...........

there was this:

His Catholicism, in other words, is not so much about how often he goes to worship — “I can’t say I go to church as much as I’d like,” he admitted — as it is about his family, his Mexican-American heritage and his progressive values. It’s also a form of the faith that, while sometimes obscured by other popularized visions of Catholicism, is deeply familiar to growing millions of Latino voters.

[Lordquinton]

20. It could have been a positive note

but he Gman had to go snuff that out.