The cardinal is raising a critical issue that will be troubling to Catholics and other decent people of conscience in the future. If indeed the constitution of the United States allows the wholesale killing of innocent human life (more than 50,000,000 since 1973), should people of conscience take an oath to uphold and defend such a document? Can a decent person sit on a jury in the courtroom of a black robed federal judge knowing what horrors have been sanctioned in that chamber? The early Christians as a matter of conscience refused to serve in the Roman army or participate in civil proceedings. Has America reached that point?
We will probably get slammed but I do believe it has.