Catholics for Obama? Douglas W. Kmiec rebutted on Ignatius blogA few days ago, we linked to a Slate commentary by Pepperdine law professor Douglas W. Kmiec which argued that Catholics might be thinking about voting for Obama over McCain. Today, Carl Olson rebuts Kmiec in this post on the Ignatius press blog. Regarding Kmiec’s arguments, Olson writes: “In essence, he is arguing that abortion and capital punishment are equally condemned by the Catholic Church.” Olson concludes: “This is so mind-numbing in its low-brow, polemical heavy-handedness that I simply ask, “Are you serious?” If this is the sort of “thinking” that some Catholics are going to use to explain their support for Sen. Obama, the next few, long months are going to witness levels of word-twisting, fact-bending, and reason-melting that will have little to do with real hope and everything to do with really audacious.”
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