text: I don't recommend any politician advise priests or bishops to preach anything and I don't approve of any Bishops or priests pushing politicians overtly to pursue their religious agenda.  I believe in the separation of church and state.  This separation protects both the church and the state from corrupting each other. 
  
  You need to stop putting all liberals or liberal Catholics into one basket - we don't all agree on every subject.  Your assumptions are therefor often incorrect. 
  
  I don't like Nancy Pelosi telling Catholic Priests how to preach any more than I like our pope telling Congress how to run our government.
  
  If a bishop or priest wants to preach that abortion is a sin, I have no problem with that and I agree with him.  However, if his preaching is not convincing to his congregation, and they do not follow what he preaches, that does not give him the right to lobby politicians to make his religious agenda into law.