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Kmiec and Communion

By on 6.3.08 @ 7:25PM

I'm late getting to E.J. Dionne's column on Doug Kmiec being denied Communion on account of his support of pro-choice Barack Obama. It seems to me that Ross Douthat says most of what needs to be said. I'm not Catholic, but I agree with the Church's teachings on life issues and Just War theory. Kmiec's justifications for supporting Obama are not to my mind persuasive, but to him they constitute a proportionate reason to back the Democrat in spite -- not because -- of their differing views on abortion.

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Barack Obama, Abortion

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W. James Antle, III is associate editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/Jimantle.

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