Posted on 11/21/2008 5:31:08 PM PST by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Pepperdine law professor who calls himself a pro-life Catholic but was one of the leading apologists for perhaps the most pro-abortion presidential candidate in history is at it again. Douglas Kmiec is now saying Barack Obama is more Catholic than previous presidents who were pro-life.
Kmiec's comments come in response to some from Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See, who called Obama on the carpet on abortion in a speech at the Catholic University of America last Thursday.
In an address sponsored by the John Paul II Institute, Stafford called Obama's pro-abortion policies aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic" and that the senator campaigned on an extremist anti-life platform.
CNN conducted a follow-up interview with Cardinal Stafford, who stood by his remarks.
Stafford told the cable news network that he couldn't understand how any Catholic could support Obama because of his radical views in favor of taxpayer-funded abortions, unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy and overturning all of the hundreds of abortion reduction laws in all 50 states.
As a result, Stafford says Obama "is hostile to the life of an unborn child.
That's where Kmiec come in to play.
The CUA Tower student newspaper interviewed him in response to Stafford's comments.
Kmiec told the paper that Stafford was giving a false portrayal of Obama and accused him of talking about Obama's abortion views not as they are but as they are made out to be by opponents.
Sometimes all of us even the wisest among us are given to speak not from personal knowledge, but from that which has been portrayed as true, but is really a caricature, said Kmiec in an interview with The Tower.
When Stafford gets to know Obama better, said Kmiec, he will readily see that Obama has far more in common with our great faith tradition than any political administration in recent memory.
With pro-life champions in office like President Ronald Reagan and President Bush, who signed numerous pro-life laws, even a pro-life Obama would be hard-pressed to match the accomplishments of their administration -- yet alone a president who could become the most pro-abortion in history.
It is eery how some otherwise “sensible” people become dithering idiots in the presence of “The One”
Dear Cardinal Stafford,
Please bring back the Inquisition.
Love,
C_of_D
Seems that many have chosen the wrong path, and they let bad shepards lead them down it.
Grima Wormtongue.
No need for the Inquisition, the Vatican simply needs to start excommunicating pro-death Catholic politicians who are unwilling to repent AND the Vatican needs to threaten excommunication to ANY priest or bishop who give the Eucharist to the non-penitent politicians.
No. I suspect he has been presented by Obama operatives with pictures of himself with an eleven year old boy in a somewhat compromising situation.
I saw Kmiec on TV several months ago, at that time I thought he needs to stop being a professional
school person and get out in the real world.
No sense of reality
The problem is Kmiec is not a politician. Mahony won’t do anything because I suspect he agrees with Kmiec. Somebody needs to reign this guy in because he has led many Catholics astray with his book and Obama evangelization. He needs consequences.
Kmiec can explain his position to the helpless innocents that were aborted
Kmiec is the classic judas goat. If I was as good a Catholic as Obama I’d pray for him.
What delusional idiot. Obviously this fool hasn’t clue what a Catholic or Christian of any type is.
The King of Spain was who started the inquestions, not the church.
Prety hard for the Vatican to excommunicate Obama or his church considering they aren’t Catholic. (or even Christian for that matter)
The present day Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is the previously named Holy Office of the Inquisition. It’s a broad term not limited to the Spanish Inquisition.
Now I'm thinking "Douglas Kmiec Wormwood"
as in C.S. Lewis' "The Screwtape Letters"
That won't be true unless they make lying a sacrament.
The conservative movement will look like the King if continues to listen to Wormtongues such as Frum, Brooks, Parker, et al.
Pray for LIFE!
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