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I'm not a democrat, but the vatican has gone way too far in telling people of America how they should behave.  Calling one of the two major political parties of a soverign nation the "party of death" is something another soverign nation -- as the vatican is -- has no business talking about.  We wouldn't stand for it from any other nation.  We'd politely tell them to shut the hell up and stay out of our politics and how we run our country.  We should do the same with the vatican. 

The Catholic Church certainly has the right to deny the rites of the church to any of its members whom they believe to be acting at variance with the rules, but for a bunch of celebate batchelors to tell people NOT of their faith how they should live their lives is not acceptable.  If the minister of justice of France dared to tell American citizens how they should live their lives, we'd be perfectly justified to tell him to stuff his advice where the sun doesn't shine.  We should tell the vatican the same thing.  They have no business trying to force their religious AND political beliefs onto citizens of the United States.