{"id":1254,"date":"2009-01-06T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/01\/tim-kaine-the-catholic-who-will-head-the-dnc.html"},"modified":"2009-01-06T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:49:00","slug":"tim-kaine-the-catholic-who-will-head-the-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/01\/tim-kaine-the-catholic-who-will-head-the-dnc.html","title":{"rendered":"Tim Kaine: the Catholic who will head the DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was a surprising tidbit<\/a> that drifted across the wire yesterday, about the man Barack Obama has picked to be the new chair of the Democratic National Committee: <\/p>\n

If anyone had any doubts about Barack Obama\u2019s willingness to listen to pro-life Democrats, his selection of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to head the Democratic National Committee should settle those doubts. Obama means business.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Governor Tim Kaine is clearly one of the president-elect\u2019s favorite fellow politicians. He was on the short-list for the vice-presidency but his lack of foreign policy credentials was deemed an insurmountable hurdle. But, Kaine is also pro-life. There are those in the GOP who will contest the point. They correctly point out that Kaine said during his campaign that he would enforce the law and the law is Roe v. Wade. Of course, this was a mere statement of fact. The Governor of Virginia, like the Governor of any other state, must abide by the laws of the United States. We fought a great and terrible civil war, much of it on the soil of Virginia, on precisely this point.<\/p>\n

But, Kaine said more than that he would enforce the laws. He took the time to explain his opposition to abortion and to capital punishment. In historically Republican and conservative Virginia, Kaine\u2019s opposition to capital punishment was even more of an impediment to his election than his opposition to abortion! He explained why his Catholic views were important to him, and how he saw those views making different claims upon his conscience and upon his veto power. Most importantly, he was not afraid to admit that there is some ambivalence about how religious views intersect with the duties of public office. NARAL refused to endorse his candidacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more at the America link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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