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| Bishop Thomas Tobin |
Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, R.I., sparked headlines
after he told a local group of Young Republicans Aug. 13 that he had
ended his long affiliation with the Democratic Party and had recently
joined the Republican Party.
“The aha moment for me was the 2012 Democratic Party Convention. It was
just awful,” Bishop Tobin told the GOP gathering, while noting that he
had been a Democrat since 1969. “I just said that, 'I can’t be
associated structurally with that group,' in terms of abortion and NARAL
and Planned Parenthood and [the] same-sex 'marriage' agenda and
cultural destruction I saw going on.”
In an Aug. 21 interview with Register senior editor Joan Frawley
Desmond, Bishop Tobin discussed his decision to change his party
affiliation, his belief that his baptismal certificate matters more than
partisan loyalties and his past efforts to engage self-identified Catholic politicians like Patrick Kennedy.
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