Tuesday, March 24, 2009

William McGurn Says Notre Dame's Choice of Barack Obama as Commencement Speaker Is Morally Incoherent


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123785146238319263.html

In the end, the result is moral incoherence. It is an incoherence in which abortion-rights advocates have the most to gain, because it demoralizes those who support the cause of life while removing fears of even the slightest social sanction for those who do not. And it is an incoherence we see all across American Catholic life today.

In our intellectual life, this incoherence gives us a college president who tells the campus paper that honoring an abortion-rights president is consistent with the bishops' statement that such leaders "should not be given awards, honors, or platforms which would suggest support for their actions."


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