{"id":2313,"date":"2009-01-28T17:25:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2009-01-28T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T22:25:58","slug":"some-people-think-killing-babies-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/some-people-think-killing-babies-is-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Some people think killing babies is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

And, thank God, at least one major denomination agrees<\/a>:<\/p>\n

While President Obama’s special envoy tries to broker peace in the Middle East and the White House dangles an olive branch before a near-nuclear Iran, a new foreign policy confrontation is in the making … with the Vatican.<\/p>\n

After he ended a ban last week on federal funding to international groups that perform or promote abortions, Obama is taking heat from a political powerhouse overseas: the Roman Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

Vatican officials said last weekend that they were disappointed by the president’s decision to reverse the so-called Mexico City policy.<\/p>\n

“Among the many good things that he could have done, Barack Obama instead chose the worst,” said Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, a top official with the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life.<\/p>\n

“If this is one of President Obama’s first acts, I have to say, in all due respect, that we’re heading quickly toward disappointment,” said Monsignor Rino Fisichella, who heads the Academy.<\/p>\n

How this will affect Obama’s appeal to Catholic voters remains to be seen. According to exit polls, the president got 53 percent of the Catholic vote in November — 13 percent more than John Kerry, a Catholic, got in 2004.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Considering that this was pretty predictable, I can’t help wondering why Obama got 53% of the Catholic vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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