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Members of the Catholic Church have been active in the elections of the United States since the mid-19th century. The United States has never had religious parties (unlike much of the world, especially in Europe and Latin America). There has never been an American Catholic religious party, either local, state or national.
Joe Biden – Roman Catholic [124] Biden is a lifelong Catholic, with Reuters describing his religious beliefs as "well-known and documented". [125] Catholic social teaching has been cited as a major influence on his political views. [126] In 2008, he was reported to regularly attend Sunday Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Greenville ...
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Barack Obama swearing the oath of office of the president of the United States using the Bible of Abraham Lincoln. Allegations that Barack Obama secretly practices Islam, [1] or that he is the antichrist of Christian eschatology, or covertly holds some other esoteric religious position, have been suggested since he campaigned for the U.S. Senate in 2004 and proliferated after his election as ...
Obama said he had a problem with men who are "coming up with all kinds of excuses" to sit out the election or to vote for Trump.
American anti-Catholicism originally derived from the theological heritage of the Protestant Reformation and the European wars of religion (16th–18th century). Because the Reformation was based on an effort to correct what was perceived as the errors and excesses of the Catholic Church, its proponents formed strong positions against the Roman clerical hierarchy in general and the Papacy in ...
Other organisations and associations adhering to the ideals of the Christian right include the Frente Nacional por la Familia, the Organización del Bien Común, colloquially known as El Yunque and with close ties to the PAN, and the Legionaries of Christ, a Roman Catholic clerical religious order of priests and candidates for the priesthood ...
Religious freedom is one of our most cherished values, a fundamental and defining feature of our national character. It guarantees us the freedom to hold any belief we choose and the right to act on our religious beliefs within certain limits. It does not, however, provide organizations the right to discriminate using taxpayer dollars.