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Religious leaders can totally provide their input for those who follow their religion. They should have zero input for public policy.
If you hold public hearings on a bill, you're going to get it and you can't constitutionally stop them as citizens from showing up or making submissions. And that applies to pro-choice religious leaders (like many in the UCCan), too. But no input beyond what the rest of the public has, for sure.
When done in the right way and with the right person.
If you bet on Carney as the GOAT you got Orwellian Gooched.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"
If everyone in the world wrote down their problems and put them in a hat, would you risk grabbing one or simply keep your own?
Interesting question. Some people's problems might be more interesting than mine. But my problems are really pretty minor and routine in the greater scheme of things. Having a co-worker who left Ukraine with a young daughter in tow after the Russian invasion really puts some of my problems in perspective. She's doing well and is pretty settled here now, but that's got to be the worst possible way to emigrate to another country. Heck, even hearing my wife talk about the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution and what her family went through back then does it.
