Response to Kmiec

re: Douglas W. Kmiec on 'Obama's Miracle'

There's a lot more one could say, but I managed to fire this comment off before I left to go to the park with my kids.

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"let us not overlook the miracle of a free election naming as President someone who a century and a half removed would have not even been acknowledged to be a created human being entitled under the Declaration of Independence to the unalienable rights of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness."

Let us not overlook the sad irony that he is the most radical advocate in America's highest office of denying another class of human beings unalienable rights of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness.

"We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to those bishops who did not violate our conscience"

I think the trouble you're having is the bishops FORMING your conscience. That's their God-given responsibility for which they will have to answer. If you don't want Catholic bishops forming your conscience, then you are, in principle, Protestant.

"the Conference of Bishops, knowing how to write with sensitive and fine grain pen, gave us both the opportunity to best assess how to promote human life within the context of a Republic of many different religious beliefs some of which see life beginning when a child is born alive and not before."

If you want to go by the letter, become a sola scriptura Protestant. Ours is a living, teaching Church. The bishops are the authoritative interpreters of their own document.

Kmiec, my personal opinion is that Catholics like yourself got caught up (much like the intellectuals who fell for Communism and Nazism) in the temptation to move with the vanguard, the elites who shape the zeitgiest. A Catholic who (i) ignores the living teaching of the bishops (ii) to vote for the most radical pro-abortion presidential candidate (judged by his own words to Planned Parenthood to pass FOCA first thing) (iii) and construes it as pro-life by pinning everything on the hope that Obama's economic policy will succeed and no one will want to have abortions anymore because they are so rich and happy--has disregarded his Catholic faith for the empty promises of a shrewd politician. Sir, you have sold your inheritance for a bowl of soup.