Obama Names Vatican Ambassador Who Backed Pro-Abortion Pols

LifeNews.com ^ | May 28, 2009 | Steven Ertelt

[julieee]

Obama Names Vatican Ambassador Who Backed Pro-Abortion Pols

Washington, DC -- President Barack Obama has nominated an ambassador to the Vatican, but the potential diplomat has supported pro-abortion politicians, including Obama himself. Obama has nominated Catholic college professor Miguel Diaz, who reportedly is pro-life but has compromised his views by backing Obama and others.

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[meandog]

Hope pope does rope a dope

[Taking Congress back in 2010]

So 0bama should appoint somebody to the post who did not support him for president? Ain’t gonna happen.

[cranked]

Obama’s continued blatant disregard for faith values ping.

[patriot preacher]

Benedict XVI should refuse to receive him... But he probably won’t. :-(

[utahagen]

I suspect the White House runs candidates by the Vatican before naming them, and that the Vatican gives an off-the-record thumbs-up or thumbs-down as a courtesy to the White House. I predict the Pope won't fight this guy.

On the bright side, the fact that the guy's family came from Cuba — although irrelevant — gives this appointment an affirmative-action cast that makes the person himself less important. And the guy probably gives lip service to opposing abortion, which Caroline Kennedy certainly didn't. Also, it would have been much worse to have Doug Kmiec named as Ambassador to the Vatican. I think everyone sees this pick by Obama for what it is — race/ethnicity politics — and even the Left won't argue it's some kind of vindication for pro-choice “Catholics”.

[Cicero]

Obama privately ran three earlier candidates by the Vatican, including Caroline Kennedy, and they were all turned down before any public announcement was made. The news was broken, but didn’t go very far and was basically anonymously sourced.

Now we have a public announcement. So the question is whether the Vatican said OK, or whether Obama decided not to ask them again.

All I can say is that if this jomoke endorsed and worked for Obama, then HE IS NOT PRO-LIFE. No way.

Obama has absolutely no need of a pro-abortion candidate in this post. He will not help further the abortion cause in any practical way. It can only be a further attack on the Catholic Church, carrying on where Notre Dame left off.

I hope Pope Benedict refuses to receive him. This confrontation is not his doing, but I don’t think he can afford to back down on it without further damage to the public perceptionn of Catholicism, which is being engineered by Obama and his friends.

[yankeedame]

Vatican gives an off-the-record thumbs-up or thumbs-down as a courtesy to the White House. I predict the Pope won't fight this guy....

And that's just what OB his hoping for figures. After all, he is the Chosen One. But I fear the Vatican's accepted -- however reluctantly -- will do no little harm to the RRC, i.e. "Well, I guess the Church doesn't figure abortion isn't that bad. After all, the Pope didn't protest when the US..."

[nina0113]

Obama has absolutely no need of a pro-abortion candidate in this post.

Do you think Obama knows any other kind?

[utahagen]

I'm not happy about this appointment, either, but I sincerely think the obsession with race/ethnicity will make this appointment irrelevant to most people who would normally draw exactly the conclusion you suggest. One of the reasons I oppose affirmative action is that the practice officially and dramatically lowers the bar from those who (ostensibly) benefit from it. People will assume this guy was named just because he could be classified as “hispanic’ or “latino” and they won't take him seriously as a result. Given what we're up against with Obama, it's the least bad of possible outcomes.

(Again, I agree with you about this not being an appropriate lick. I'm just looking on the bright side.)