the Larsons go to Mass at “liberal” parishes in East Hartford, Conn. Not a place where Freepers would hang out. I do not know about Rep. Courtney.
In Shelton, Conn., they gave publicity to their 2 pro-abort Republican state reps on the parish website ... wrote a nice story about the parish visit to the capitol to oppose assisted suicide and chat with their fellow parishioner representative.
I do not know how one would define pro-abort in CT politics, since the legislature rarely votes on such things. Half the people that work at the diocesan office are pro-aborts. If the priest is a pro-abort, what to do?
“Representative Nicholas Mattiello of Cranston, the Democratic House majority leader, says that he was asked to take a break from serving as a lector at his church after changing his position and publicly supporting same-sex marriage.
State Senator William J. Conley Jr. of East Providence, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which approved the marriage bill, says a diocesan official asked him to resign as a trustee of La Salle Academy in Providence. The pastor of the East Providence parish where he was baptized, Conley says, denounced him from the pulpit as a “Judas.”
http://www.ratzingerfanclub.com/blog/2004/09/john-kerry-discovers-steubenville-isnt.html