Posted on 02/07/2012 8:32:16 AM PST by marshmallow
Doug Kmiec convinced many Catholics to elect President Barack Obama and received an ambassadorship to Malta. He also became a lightning rod in the Catholic community and beyond. I have not heard from him since he resigned his ambassadorship. That is until last weekend. His letter to the President is worthy of note.
WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - During the last US Presidential campaign, one name stood out among those Catholics who supported the candidacy of then Senator, now President, Barack Obama; Doug Kmiec.
A constitutional lawyer, Doug was known as a defender of the fundamental Human Right to Life. A former Dean of Catholic University's Law School, Doug was also heralded as a defender of the first freedom of religious freedom. He went on to hold the prestigious Caruso Family Chair in Human Rights at Pepperdine University.
Yet, that same Doug Kmiec became an outspoken supporter of the candidacy of Barack Obama. He did much more; he became the leading "apologist" of sorts, attempting to convince other Catholics to support the candidate. He did so in the face of candidate Obama's expressed opposition to defending the Rights of our first neighbors in the womb.
Doug wrote a book entitled "Can a Catholic Support Him?" In the afterward of the book he wrote: "Barack Obama has my vote. Your only duty is to cast your own in good conscience. As a Catholic and as an American, you may do so in perfect freedom. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise".
Make no mistake; that was a moral claim. It used phrases like "good conscience" and "perfect freedom", which speak to the morality of human action and the acting person. However, consciences are "good" when they are properly formed in the truth which then leads the person to do what is good. Freedom "perfects" a.......
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Yup, a veritable friggin genius. These credentialed liberal arts academics are astonishingly arrogant. Well, Mr Kmiec, how does it feel to be a self-identifying rube? If I could see through Obama's media-created patina in 2008, why couldn't you? Jackass.
Any thinking person should have been able to recognize the radical socialistic, homophiliac, baby killing mindset of this man long before casting his first vote. No wonder the Catholic constituents are easily lead astray by the foul doctrines of Rome.
So, the jerk still thinks that Obama has “good intentions”? Did Obama have good intentions way back when he was a state representative voting to let abortionists throw born-alive babies out on the roof to die? Has he EVER shown any signs of having “good intentions”?
How out of touch with reality can you get?
Does he understand yet that he is seriously complicit in the murder of millions of babies all over the world, paid for by our taxes?
>> He also became a lightning rod
If only that weren’t just a metaphor...
Is he still alive. Pity.
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Kmiec is a useful idiot who got an ambassadorship from Obamalini for his trouble.
Any institution that would hire or honor Kmiec today is beneath contempt.
Incredible that THIS was posted on May 12, 2009!!!!!!
(but, we didn’t like Bath-House Barry because of the color of his skin/sarc)
This idiot savant also killed a nun and a priest in 2010 because he (The reprobate that excuses evil ideologues) forgot to take his meds.
Kmiec should be treated like dog crap on the bottom of ones shoes until he repents. Besides, his excuses for a Christian to "follow" conscious (Often disguised as feelings) and not heed reason is as shallow as urine on a concrete sidewalk during the hottest day.
“Kmiec is a useful idiot who got an ambassadorship from Obamalini for his trouble.”
Apparently he is not a very useful driver. He crashed into a drainage ditch. An elderly nun who was one of his passengers was killed. Kmiec and a priest was also injured in the crash.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/more-details-released-on-ambassador-kmiec-car-accident/
Sorry Rollo. We must have been typing at the same time. You were quicker on the draw.
Sorry Rollo. We must have been typing at the same time. You were quicker on the draw.
Sorry, Monsignor John V. Sheridan died of heart failure about two weeks after the car crash, but was in critical condition throughout until his death.
Ping to 15.
I remember this POS and his stumping. I hope he has remorse for his intellectually dishonest vote, and I hope it’s the bitterest gaul.
That should be “gall.”
“That should be “gall.””
It’s funny you mention Gaul. Kmiec may not be French, but he sure surrenders like them.
Thank God for you. The first question I asked when Obama made it known was, where’s Kmiec, the dissident Catholic Healthcare West (Now Dignity Health, wink, yet the sisters are still there), the usual ex and non priest heretics, Maria Vian from L’Obsservatore Romano and those at America Magazine who proclaimed him pro-life? I searched for the first statement out of their mouths, since they led many astray (how really, I don’t know, lack of catechetics). Let’s also not forget the bishops at USCCB, who concentrated more on illegals than life and citizen, tax-paying parishioners who are being fleeced.
I called Rome, the bishops on the pro-life and immigration/refugee committees, America Mag and many others. I faxed and emailed his record, legislation in the past and his own words at Planned Parenthood and other venues. Nada.
Now we separate the wheat from the chaff, the rams from the goats and get to the remnant. Whom will they serve?
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