Every four years, responsible faith leaders are careful to point out the flaws in both parties. Both pastorally and politically, they are doing their constituents a service by encouraging people to question their own assumptions, challenge their own biases, and think more seriously about how their faith and their politics are related.
Thus it can become somewhat stale and predicable when religious leaders critique both parties’ candidates. It’s a safe position to take and perhaps the objectively correct thing for clergy to do. It’s especially common among Catholic leaders, because their faith does not neatly or naturally line up with either major party’s platform.
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