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The Washington Post: Bishop David A. Zubik of Green Bay, Wis., issued a note in church bulletins this week urging Catholics to vote in the presidential election and to base their votes foremost on opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

Although he emphasized that he was not endorsing a candidate, Zubik dismissed the distinction that Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry and many other liberal Catholic leaders have drawn between Catholic faith and public life.

"Some political figures in this election have asserted that there is a natural divide between their religious beliefs and their political views," Zubik wrote in a column also published in the Compass, the diocesan newspaper. "I argue that [this] is patently false. [It] goes against the fabric of what it means to be a person of faith."

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