To the editor:
We must respond to a recent letter citing a question from Professor Douglas Kmiec: “How could a Catholic not support Barack Obama?”
Category: Opinion
Health care for all should be a priority
While the United States has an excellent health care system, unfortunately there are millions of Americans who have no access to affordable health care.
Obama has liberal record
To the editor:
Barack Obama has one of the most liberal voting records in the U.S. Senate. He rejects free market vision of government. His first federal Senate bill was in August 2007 about Pell grants and he cast 130 “present” votes while in the Illinos Senate. Obama said he reveres the American flag: “I don’t refuse to wear flag pins” but “fact check” said he refused to wear a flag pin in 2007 and that he voted for a non-binding tax increase on $42K income.
Kmiec’s claims about Obama not supported by his record
To the editor:
This is a response to the letter by Bill Checovich that appeared in the October 2, 2008 issue of the Catholic Herald, in which he urges consideration of a strategic change in the fight against abortion. He refers to Douglas Kmiec as his authority, who in turn believes that the sanctity of life and social justice are best served by an Obama presidency.
It will take courage to reverse abortion, like it did for slavery
To the editor:
I strongly believe our society will be judged on how it has respected life or failed to do so over the last 35 years. Dating back to Roe vs. Wade over 35 million innocent children have been killed in our country. I want to make it very clear that I love and respect my country. I wonder and pray how we will be judged as a country and as individuals when we meet our heavenly Father.
‘Respecting Life’ should include lives lost in wars
To the editor:
Nowhere in the “Respect Life” issue of September 25 did I find any mention of the thousands of innocent lives that have been, and will still be, lost in the ongoing wars taking place in Iraq and Afghanistan. Don’t these lives deserve prayerful recognition as well?
Continue to oppose the death penalty
October is a month set aside by the Catholic Church to focus on issues of respect for all human life. Perhaps one of the most difficult issues for many Catholics is opposing the death penalty.
Helping pregnant women choose life
Jamie (not her real name) was young and smart. She had aspirations of being a veterinarian. But she found out she was pregnant. She thought that having a baby would destroy her dreams. To make matters worse, she believed that if her parents found out she was pregnant, they would kick her out of their home.
Candidates must recognize personhood of unborn child
To the editor:
Who was the first person in the New Testament outside of the Holy Family to recognize Jesus as Lord? “And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy” (Luke 1, 43-44).
Try a different strategy to make abortion rare
To the editor:
Douglas Kmiec, former constitutional legal counsel to Presidents Reagan and Bush, architect of Reagan’s pro-life policies, and arguably the nation’s brightest conservative Catholic legal mind, recently argued that Catholics concerned about the sanctity of life and social justice are best served by an Obama presidency.