[.45MAN]

Catholic legislators remain legally free to vote as they please

They have a free will, they have a right to choose whether they will be Catholics and politicians or politicians and agnostics. they are also free to choose whether they stay in God's good graces or not. Heaven or Hell it's their choice. And it's about time they were made to choose..

[philosofy123]

The same American brain who want to deny a Catholic leader the right to think or talk is negotiating with the "grand" fanatic Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq. They will do whatever he says. If he ordered the Americans to kill the Christian minority in Iraq, they will comply to please his holyness!

[Drammach]

.....a right to choose whether they will be Catholics and politicians or politicians and agnostics.

I am assuming you mean atheist not agnostic.
Agnostics believe in God, atheists do not..
As to abortion, I assume there are agnostics on both sides of the issue, just as there are Catholics..

I do, however, applaud the Archbishop for taking a moral stand in keeping with the Religion (and it's beliefs) which he represents..
He is obviuously a man of strong character and deserving of the respect of all Missourians, Catholic and Protestant alike..