Catholics for Obama? Douglas W. Kmiec rebutted on Ignatius blog
A 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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Well,Lets see..Reagan is defended again …true Reagan did nothing when some 250 marines were killed by terrorists..the Gipper was silent when Ollie was grilled in congress and even when the moronic senator from Hawii could not pull the shades to show a film defending what the ‘covert’action was all about..so what…and of course the evil empire went down..’evil’ does that mean bad? Nurenberg was the scene of a trial after ww2 and some 24 members of the left wing national socialist party were there..12 were executed and the others went to prison..Spear ,Adolphs right hand man,got some prison time but I dont recall any crimes against humanity trials when the evil empire fell..guess the murder of 100 million souls dont really count to some experts…go figure