Why one African-American Christian won't vote for Obama.
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George Weigel has written the best article I've seen on the whole Obama Catholic mess. From the conclusion:
Biden is not the only Catholic who will be seriously challenged by an Obama administration bent on reversing what its pro-choice allies regard as eight years of defeat; pro-life Catholics will face different, if equally grave, dilemmas. The bishops already find themselves defending the Catholic integrity of Catholic hospitals under pressures from state governments; those pressures, as well as pressures on doctors and other Catholic health-care professionals, will increase in an Obama administration, especially if FOCA succeeds in knocking down state conscience-clause protections for Catholic health-care providers and institutions. And should an Obama administration reintroduce large-scale federal funding of abortion, the bishops will have to confront a grave moral question they have managed to avoid for decades, thanks to the Hyde amendment: does the payment of federal taxes that go to support abortion constitute a form of moral complicity in an "intrinsic evil"? And if so, what should the conscientious Catholic citizen do?
I purposefully have not, incidentally, commented on Professor Kmiec's recent comet to fame. We've had only limited contact since I graduated in 1991, but he was one of my favorite professors at Notre Dame and I always respected the man immensely. He attended the Mass at which I became Catholic (by chance only, but he stuck around afterward to say a few kind words). I'm saddened by the whole affair, but more flummoxed. I'm guessing there's some nasty (personal?) history between him and McCain, but then again, I think it would've come out by now if there was. Hard to say. I'll continue to be reticent, until I read his book on the matter. Because I doubt I'll get around to reading it any time soon, I doubt I'll say much on the matter any time soon.
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In response to the Prohibitionist picture yesterday, a reader sent this humorous email: This picture reminded of a comment by Ayn Rand about 30 or so years ago discussing the radical feminists (I may not have the wording exactly right but I do have the spirit): "The feminists denounce the treatment of women as sex objects, using as spokesmen women who all too obviously are in no such danger."
