The concern has come from a mistaken notion that being pro choice is equal to being pro abortion. ... We are free to choose between the Lord and the evil one.
What an evil teaching comes from this priest! Of course we are free to choose between God and Satan. The point of the abortion debate is that millions of innocent children are being deprived of this choice!
Fr. Ortman either forgets or rejects the teaching of the Church on the basic humanity and moral dignity of unborn children. Any true Catholic (indeed - any person of conscience) recognizes that the so-called "pro-choice" movement is the enemy of free choice for all their "freely chosen" victims!
Surely Fr. Ortman need only be reminded of his own words from November 2001 regarding his own pro-life witness against abortion (in fall 2001 Ortman helped install 2200 crosses in a symbolic "graveyard for the unborn" on parish property), which met with resistance in the parish:
‘If people are going to be offended, that’s their problem,’ he said. ‘We are called to proclaim the Gospel. This was simply a nonverbal proclamation of the Gospel. Jesus offended people every time He opened His mouth.’
(from Credo 11/19/2002
http://www.credopub.com/archives/2001/iss20011119/20011119p05.htm)