This poor married deacon is a mishmash of confusion. He apparently feels guilty for not committing to the priesthood, and his equivocations reveal internal struggle.
Perhaps his wife puts pressure on his politics.
In America, cafeteria Catholics are the norm, and Kerry and Kennedy are allowed to take communion despite their evil support of abortion and euthanasia. Kieth fits right in with this spineless approach. He imagines that fighting Saddam, who is this era's very own Hitler, was wrong. Mass graves mean little to him.
The pope told the US bishops to uphold the teachings by freezing Kerry and Kennedy out of sacrements, the bishops publicly refused. A schism is imminent, and Keith will stay with the corrupted gay-friendly, abortion-friendly aging-hippie pop music church while many of us will happily join the CounterCulture Church, where the old Catholic Mass is said, we aren't forced to hold hands and we can hear solemn spiritual classical music without the tamborines.
Incidentally, a new Schismatic Church would not go bankrupt from the current sex abuse scandal settlements. The existing Catholic Church is beginning to pay dearly for it's "tolerance" of homo clergy.
Consequences.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Keith Fournier may be wrong about his opposition to the War in Iraq but he is right about every other issue we face today. If you'd bothered to read his article you'd see that.
Your assumptions about his feeling of guilt for not entering the priesthood are presumptive shallow. The Permanent Dianconate is an ancient and respected and sacramental ministry of the Roman Catholic Church.