{"id":1304,"date":"2008-12-23T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/12\/priest-pulls-obama-books-from-catholic-school-library.html"},"modified":"2008-12-23T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T07:43:00","slug":"priest-pulls-obama-books-from-catholic-school-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/12\/priest-pulls-obama-books-from-catholic-school-library.html","title":{"rendered":"Priest pulls Obama books from Catholic school library"},"content":{"rendered":"

This bit of news<\/a> strikes me as excessive — and just a bad idea: <\/p>\n

A priest has removed two books about Barack Obama from a Missouri Roman Catholic school’s library because of the president-elect’s abortion position.<\/p>\n

“I am very pro-life,” the Rev. Ron Elliott of Blue Springs, Mo., told KMBC-TV, Kansas City, Mo. “Because of his stance on certain issues, I was asked to look into that matter.”<\/p>\n

Obama has said he believes abortions should be legally available in accordance with the landmark Roe vs. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision that said abortion was a constitutional right to privacy under the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n

Elliott said he pulled the Obama books from St. John LaLande Catholic School, even though he didn’t find anything wrong with them when he read them.<\/p>\n

He said he would put the books back on the shelf in February or March, “after the dust kind of settles.”<\/p>\n

The school has an early childhood center and teaches students from kindergarten through eighth grade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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