[Frank Sheed]

“We are concerned with the Pope’s recent statement warning Catholic elected officials that they risk excommunication and would not receive communion for their pro-choice views,” the lawmakers said in a statement issued yesterday. “Advancing respect for life and for the dignity of every human being is, as our church has taught us, our own life’s mission.”

Translation: We believe that ignorance is bliss, that we are our own moral authority and can make it up as we go along, and that if we want to kill babies in the womb, it is our personal choice to do so.

Left Unsaid: We'd never advocate this for a kitten or doggie, though, because PETA would be all over our case...

[lastchance]

In other words. “ We are our own pope, dang it and don’t you forget it.”