[Iron Matron]

Any person with the true heart of the faithful,one who believes the Word of God, will not allow his/her beliefs to become comprised by the principle MAN lives by.

Politicians whose religion forbids abortion, must take the stand of the higher cause, the Godly Cause, or they betray God. A politician who will betray God will also betray the people. If Catholic politicians do not follow and live by the tenants of the Church, it is simple: They are NOT Catholic, and are weak in character as well.

[presidio9]

[livius]

It's only a "problem" if being a Democrat trumps being a Catholic. There's no question which is more important in Kerry's mind - hence, it shouldn't bother him a whole lot to have it made official.

However, the really big problem here is that the Catholic Church has been wedded to the Democratic party for demore than a century. During the Civil War, the Democrats were the party of slavery, and cultivated Irish immigrants by "siding" with them on draft issues. ("The peace Democrats excited large audiences by warning that white men were now dying in order to equalize a lower race."- Richard Jensen)

Boss Tweed emerged from the Draft Riots (1863), and soon in all of the major metropolitan centers, the Dems could rely on Irish politicians to be their devoted servants - something that has continued to this day, over 150 years later.

The contemporary Catholic bishops, who are in their majority Irish American, are still more loyal to the Dem Party than to the Church.

(Of course, what mystifies me even more is why blacks should be under the sway of a party that hated them that much, but I guess that's a whole 'nother question.)