O estranho "Catolicismo" de John Kerry (3)

The Kerry Menace, artigo de Joseph Sobran, liberal (no sentido clássico) e católico, publicado no The Wanderer, o mais antigo jornal católico dos E.U.A.

Little as I care for President Bush, I must say I'm relieved to find him leading John Kerry in the polls. No question, Bush is a disaster for conservatism. That's bad enough. But Kerry would be a disaster for Catholicism.

The Church in America has enough troubles already. But they would all be compounded if a bad Catholic - one who defies Church teaching on abortion, sodomy, and all the rest - were to win the presidency.

Of course Kerry claims to be a Catholic in good standing. He says he received an annulment of his first marriage and married his super-rich wife in the Church, but there seems to be some doubt even about that. He has recently taken communion in Protestant churches, which tells us all we need to know about his devotion to the faith. His behavior is not only sinful, which might be his own business, but flagrantly scandalous, which is not. Kerry chooses to advertise his Catholicism, which makes his defeat urgent.

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Yes, of course, Kerry cites the separation of church and state. But he really seems to mean separation of church and career. A wag once noted that "Senator Kennedy's religion is so private that he won't even impose it on himself," and the same could be said of Kennedy's pal Kerry.