Now, 44 years after Kennedy–76 years after Smith–the Democratic party
\nhas nominated its third Catholic for president. And it seems safe to
\nbet the number of votes from people like my grandmother that John Kerry
\nwill receive solely for his Catholicism should equal just about zero.
\nThe number of votes he will lose should total around the same. Never was
\nthere a less Catholic moment in American politics.<\/p>\n
Or maybe I mean a more Catholic moment in American politics–it’s all
\nso confusing. If you’re a serious-enough Catholic to be tempted to vote
\nin sectarian solidarity, then you’re also a serious-enough Catholic to
\ndislike the pro-abortion Kerry. And if you’re a zealot who votes
\nagainst anything with the least odor of Catholicism, then you probably don’t
\nhave much choice except Kerry, the Catholic. For where anti-Catholic
\nbigotry in 1960 came mainly from the Evangelical right, it comes
\noverwhelmingly in 2004 from the pro-abortion left–who certainly aren’t going
\nto vote for Bush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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