Too bad. 🙂

I wouldn’t say that I’m John Kerry’s biggest fan or anything, but I have to say that I admire the way he’s handing the flak he’s getting from the Catholic Church. A quote from Senator Kerry:

“What I believe in personally as a Catholic as an article of faith is an article of faith…(But it is not) appropriate in the United States for a legislator to legislate personal religious beliefs for the rest of the country.”

Amen, brother.

I am so tired of the Church trying to dictate policy, by telling people how to vote, and doing so on a single issue. This is a huge debate. No one is ever going to win it. Period. So in the meantime, you’d rather Americans vote in their leaders based on this ONE thing, as if nothing else matters. (or at least doesn’t matter as much…)

George Weigel writes that “not all issues are equal…the bishops of the United States in a 1998 pastoral letter made unmistakably clear that the pro-life issue carried more weight than other issues because it involved the moral foundations of American democracy.”

So let me get this straight…I agree with where a candidate stands on ALL issues, but the candidate happens to be pro-choice. On the other side, I have a candidate with whom I vehemently disagree with on all other issues, but who is pro-life. I’m “supposed” to vote for the pro-lifer? Or face eternal damnation? What a completely preposterous idea.

And let me just say again, for the record…I am in no way, shape or form in favor of abortion. It’s not a choice that I would ever make. However, I am grateful that, as an American woman, I have a right to MAKE that choice.

(Boy, this soapbox is getting an awful lot of use lately…)