huh? on your statements. What Pope Francis advocates it totally irrelevant to this issue.  Pope Francis is not shaping US government policy, is he?   Yes, we are supposed to have separation of church and state - that is the ideal that is constantly being undermined by the GOP. The radical right wants small government that wages war and legislates their morality and let's children starve.  In fact, we are moving backwards into the dark ages, women are pawns to be controlled, victimized and dominated by men and this is just one example.