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Tiller Helps to Secure Victory for Pro-Abortion District Attorney
Notorious abortionist George Tiller of Wichita, Kan., spent more than $100,000 to help re-elect pro-abortion District Attorney Nola Foulston. According to Associated Press reports, Foulston previously blocked 30 criminal charges being brought against Tiller.
Tiller's ads attacked Sedgwick County district attorney candidate Mark Schoenhofer.
Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, said the setback will only energize life advocates.
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008602.cfm
Archbishop Chaput eager to see Kmiec deliver a pro-life Obama
In a genial but critical exchange reproduced on The Witherspoon Institute’s web site Public Discourse, Pepperdine University law professor Doug Kmiec and Archbishop of Denver Charles J. Chaput have exchanged further remarks concerning Kmiec’s advocacy for President-elect Barack Obama. The archbishop told the professor he welcomes a civil dialogue but also called on Kmiec to convince Obama to change his position on life issues.
Kmiec, a pro-life Republican, wrote in response to the archbishop’s Oct. 17 address to an ENDOW dinner, titled “Little Murders,” in which the archbishop commented that Kmiec has a “strong record of service to the Church and the nation” but claimed Kmiec and other pro-Obama Catholics “have done a disservice to the Church, confused the natural priorities of Catholic social teaching, undermined the progress pro-lifers have made, and provided an excuse for some Catholics to abandon the abortion issue instead of fighting within their parties and at the ballot box to protect the unborn.”
In a public letter to the archbishop dated Nov. 4, Kmiec called the archbishop “as well spoken a defender of the faith as I remember.”
However, Kmiec repeated his concern that the archbishop’s approach to the abortion issue “will lead many in parishes around the country to neglect what they can do to build up the culture of life through the promotion of the social gospel in its fullest sense.”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14254
54 Percent Of Catholics Voted For Obama
Is Barack Obama closing the so-called "God gap"? Pundits on Wednesday were calling the president-elect's national support from 54 percent of Catholics one of the more startling outcomes of the election. It's 2 percent higher than George Bush's Catholic support in 2004. Among Protestant evangelicals, about 25 percent went for Obama, compared to 21 percent for John Kerry in 2004. Obama's strong Catholic support comes despite a flurry of statements from Catholic bishops in the waning days of the campaign, which warned of Obama's loyalty to abortion rights. Evangelical Protestants also have been staunchly anti-abortion and support other social issues such as a federal amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman, which Obama opposes.
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/nov/06/obama-able-to-close-gap-with-catholics/
