[F16Fighter]

"Might this bring in more Catholic votes?"

Let's put it this way:

Soon, we can anticipate Dubya to bestow the same Presidential Medal of Freedom to Billy Graham...

...To be followed subsequently by awards to Bishop Sponge (gay vote), the Dalai Lama (the Buddhist vote) and a yet unidentified Wiccan "spiriual leader."

[JohnnyZ]

...To be followed subsequently by awards to Bishop Sponge (gay vote),

You mean the SPONGE vote!

[A.A. Cunningham]

Graham received his in 1983.