Statements in parishes; the ongoing discussion

Reflecting on how to think about what Rick or someone similarly situated might write for his parish bulletin, I would hazard that a parishoner's "statement" in a parish bulletin, concerning a matter on which he or she invites fellow parishoners to bring justice to bear on a matter of import to the faithful, and does so in a way that fairly mediates the teaching of the Church, should be encouraged as exemplary of what Benedict XVI asks of the laity in Deus caritas (and elsewhere).  It is for the laity to bring reason-purified-through-faith to bear on politics, and if the parish bulletin is not a place to begin that conversation (in statements signed by competent laity) and carry it forward, in a way that shows and builds the Church's call to the laity to transform the social order in ways taught by the Church and specified by the laity, I can hardly imagine such a place.  (I guess I can imagine an old-fashioned bulletin that sticks to the knitting of the sacramental life, but I haven't seen one of those in quite some time).  It will be for the pastors to decide that is "unnecessarily polarizing," and on that basis to exclude it from parish conversation.  Assuming the orthodoxy of such contributions by the laity, though, I should think that inclusion in the hope of education and witness would be the clear norm.