Posted on 11/07/2008 1:49:37 PM PST by NYer
.- St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California has invited Pepperdine University law professor and Obama backer Doug Kmiec to give an election “post-mortem” lecture.
According to the California Catholic Daily, Kmiec will give the Thirteenth Annual Newman C. Eberhardt Lecture next Tuesday. The seminary’s web site says his lecture will examine “the prominent role played by the American Catholic community in the 2008 election, from Bishops educating candidates on ensoulment to alternative ways to be pro-life to the selection of running mates.”
Kmiec, former legal counsel for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, has also been dean of the law school at the Catholic University of America and a law professor at Notre Dame University.
Though a pro-life Republican, in a March 23 essay in Slate magazine he endorsed the pro-abortion rights Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, saying Obama “wants to move the nation beyond its religious and racial divides and that he wants to return the United States to that company of nations committed to human rights.”
Kmiec’s justifications for supporting Obama have drawn criticism from Catholic clergy and laity. He has argued that Archbishop Charles J. Chaput’s position on the Catholic citizen’s voting duties “discounts reducing the incidence of abortion by cultural (economic and social) means” by focusing on legal remedies.
However, Kmiec insists his disagreement is not over the “essence of Church instruction” but rather the “preferred means of implementing it.”
Thought this might interest you.
And then what happened?
Freegards
They can make all the statements they want. Words are meaningless - in fact, Pelosi’s bishop didn’t even really say much, just said he’d “talk to her” later. To my knowledge, he hasn’t done this. Or maybe he called her to congratulate her on Obama’s election.
Yup... he’s guilty of materially cooperating in evil as well as scandal. Nice bit of work for your 15 minutes of fame, Mr. Kmiec...
Kmiec is a swine.
Hope he got a good deal from the anti-Christ. Hope he enjoys the rest of this life.
The next one might not be so promising.
Can’t he find Vicki Gene Robinson’s phone number and “transition” to a “Church” that’s more his style?
For a lawyer Kmiec seems unaware of the law he is talking about. It ties the hands of every state and local government, to the extent of making its hard for local authorities to hold abortion clinics to the same sanitary standards as ordinary clinics. The slightest restrictiono “the right.” is opposed by the pro-abortionists. They hate the comparism with slavery, but no other “right.” has enjoyed as much protection by the Constitution as abortion. Common sense exceptions to freedom of religion, speech or peaveble assembly are allowed by the Courts, but nothing comparable is found for the abortion right. Under our cours, the right to life is negotiable, but th right to death is absolute.
Who runs this seminary? Who’s the rector. We should all protest to the Vatican that a Catholic professor who support the pro-abortion candidate is speaking there. What kind of a message is this to priests in training?????
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