KERRY FIGHTS BACK

The Senator rightly objects to the way in which the Catholic Church is directly intervening in American politics and instructing politicians what they can and cannot support on matters of public policy. I’m amazed that the Church can lobby politically and still maintain its tax-free status. It isn’t just upholding moral values here; it’s instructing a secular politician in a secular Constitution how to vote on purely dogmatic grounds. It’s one more step back from the Second Council, but then we knew that that document is now essentially a dead letter in the current Vatican. I must say that my admiration for Kerry just went up a big notch. What a country. Only one party seems intent on combating the violent theocracy threatening our freedoms from abroad. But they’re the very party appeasing theocrats at home.