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Why two?

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Here is an election video produced several years ago by Catholics Called to Witness. It was released in two versions, one for Catholics, one for Evangelical/Protestant audiences. One says Catholics across the nation will be put to the test; the other uses the more generic "Christians." I do not know why the producers thought there needed to be two versions. Either video would be good to go with either audience. The biggest difference is that the Catholic version relies on Cardinal Dolan to establish a point. The Protestant version makes the point without quoting him. If the Catholics think Protestants are going to hate anything that quotes Dolan, they need to get out more. We think he is all right, and even enjoy it when he is amusingly himself sometimes. Writing him out of the script is too much caution, bending over backwards, even. But that's the same problem we see in many areas.  Catholics do not know much about Protestants, despite living down the street from t