"The letter's signers, all Democrats, include at least three House members with strong antiabortion voting records."
Surprise, surprise. These mendacious hypocrits want to belong to an organization, reap the positive political benefits of the same and then ignore the rules.
As Catholics, they should know the Catholic Church is not now, nor ever was, a Democracy. The Pope and the College of Cardinals make the rules, not a pack of prostituting politicians whose only moral compass is the way the political wind happens to be blowing in their respective districts.
Any Catholic Priest or Bishop who performs a marriage for a divorced Catholic Politician, or who gives communion to a Catholic politician who supports abortion, is violating his office and jeopardizing his soul - according to Catholic dogma, regardless of how leftist prelates like Bishop Rodimer the liberal of New Jersey may care to present it.
Perhaps these people should be honest with themelves and become say, Episcopalians, or Unitarians. I think they would find the political views of a substantial number of members of those churches more in keeping with the total absence of moral clarity on their own parts.
Rosa DeLauro represents the district I lived in when I resided in Connecticut. Trust me. Don't be fooled by the vowel at the end of her name. If Rosa were honest, she would admit her atheism, among other things. She is a former executive director of the notorious Emily's List and as vile a person as you will ever hope not to meet.