this guest commentary<\/a>, \u201cThe Moral Duty to Inquire.\u201d\u00a0 Although I think the original piece was, in several respects, misguided, I also think that most of what he says in this second piece \u2014 e.g., the Faith and Catholic Social Teaching are not the property of one party, Catholic voters have a range of issues to consider, etc. \u2014 is sensible.\u00a0<\/p>\nMy own sense, for what it\u2019s worth,\u00a0of some conservatives\u2019 reaction to Prof. Kmiec\u2019s original piece was not so much that they thought (certainly, I didn\u2019t) that it is wrong to \u201cinquire\u201d, from a Catholic\u00a0perspective,\u00a0into the merits of the Obama candidacy, but that Kmiec\u2019s\u00a0original piece mis-framed the debate (as the second piece, for the most part, does not \u2014 I say \u201cfor the most part\u201d because the second piece still appears to regard the Catholic position on immigration as weighing against McCain and for Obama, which is not how I see the matter.)<\/p>\n
In any event, check it out.\u00a0 Prof. Kmiec, everyone knows, has been a stalwart defender of religious freedom and the sanctity of life, in\u00a0the academy, in law, and in policy, for decades.\u00a0 I\u00a0do not believe that Sen. Obama \u2014 his attractive personality notwithstanding \u2014 is, in fact, a \u201cCatholic natural\u201d, but certainly, as Prof. Kmiec contends, it is entirely appropriate to ask whether\u00a0Obama is, all things considered, the better\u00a0choice for a\u00a0Catholic.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think he is, but I\u2019m sure others will disagree.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Professor Doug Kmiec expands on his recent Slate piece, \u201cReaganites for Obama?\u201d (in which he wrote, among other things, \u201cSorry,\u00a0McCain, Barack Obama is a natural for the Catholic vote,\u201d\u00a0in this guest commentary, \u201cThe Moral Duty to Inquire.\u201d\u00a0 Although I think the original piece was, in several respects, misguided, I also think that most of what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2958,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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