{"id":7438,"date":"2004-04-22T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T07:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/responding_to_chaput.html"},"modified":"2004-04-22T07:29:39","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T07:29:39","slug":"responding_to_chaput","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/responding_to_chaput.html","title":{"rendered":"Responding to Chaput"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paper highlights pro-abortion Hispanic politicos who raise the spectre of bias<\/a><\/p>\n

(Because they see Chaput’s statement being in part directed at a Hispanic candidate for the Senate.)<\/p>\n

State Rep. Mike Garcia, a pro-choice Democrat who attends St. Therese Church in Aurora, said he “respects the archbishop’s position,” but calls Salazar “the best man for the job.” He argues that the myriad of issues, such as health care and immigration, makes identifying a single Catholic position impossible.<\/p>\n

State Rep. Fran Coleman, of Denver, a Hispanic Catholic with a special role as a eucharistic minister at Notre Dame Parish in Denver, supports Salazar and said she is reluctantly pro-choice. “If I try to overturn Roe v. Wade, I’ll be driving abortion back into the underground,” she said.<\/p>\n

Coleman, whose birth name is Natividad, said she won’t reduce her Catholic donations, but finds that things have become more uncomfortable for her.<\/p>\n

“On a personal level, it’s been troubling,” she said of the archbishop’s remarks. “I feel I’m being painted with a kind of a star because I’m a legislator and I’m Catholic and I don’t always vote the way the archbishop would have me vote.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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