>Jamie wrote: "... the evidence suggests that the bishops' conference threw under the bus the needs of these vulnerable peoples for the sake of advancing their anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, right-wing religious liberty agenda... One can only hope that they will begin to see that even they may not be safe under the forces they helped put into global power: unfit, incompetent, mendacious men whose beliefs are anything but pro-life."<

Politics does indeed make strange and duplicitous bedfellows.  The entire concept of "religious freedom" has been distorted beyond recognition...  a freedom only for a particular religious group aligned with the political rightwing to do as they please,  ignoring any anti-discrimination laws,  and injecting their religious beliefs into secular law.   Theocracy is their goal...  but how long before their champion in the White House throws THEM under the bus when they are no longer useful to him.  Poetic justice?