[Ohioan from Florida]

If the they you're referring to means the people in the photograph, they probably don't, but that shouldn't be held against them. If they haven't received instruction in the Catholic faith, they probably wouldn't know. Kerry, however, should, especially because I've heard over and over again, that besides being in Vietnam, he was an altar boy in his youth. Didn't he learn anything from that Catholic upbringing of his? Are his parents still alive, or any siblings? I wonder what they think of this behavior.

[Aliska]

but that shouldn't be held against them.

No, of course not. I find it somewhat ironic though.

Whatever upbringing he had in the catholic faith appears to be little more than using it for political and social advantage.