While Obama's "pastor problems" have been dominating the news lately, some Democrats and left-wing bloggers (especially Joshua Micah Marshall) have been trying desperately to make an issue of John McCain receiving the endorsement of John Hagee, an evangelical pastor with a history of anti-Catholic bigotry. The comparison is not very apt to begin with given Obama's much closer association with Wright over a long period of years. More importantly, as the old cliché goes, elections are about choices.
And the choice between voting for a candidate who's supported by a fool who's said some nasty things about the Catholic Church and candidates who are supported by groups whose actions directly contravene the teachings of the Church seems like a fairly easy one for Catholics to make. Feddie delivers a perfect summation at Southern Appeal:
To be sure, I would rather McCain completely disassociate himself from Hagee, but his failure to do so (no doubt as a matter of political prudence) is not nearly enough for me to sit out an election that may, among other things, decide who gets to fill as many as three Supreme Court vacancies in the next four years. I mean, seriously, do the dems really believe that faithful Catholics are just going to sit on the sidelines this November because one of McCain's high-profile supporters is a bigoted twit? Do they honestly think that this sort of thing matters more than Senator Obama's unwillingness to support legislation designed to provide basic medical care to babies who survive botched abortions?
The bottom line is this: On the non-negotiable teachings of the Catholic Church, Senator McCain is the clear choice for faithful Catholics (even with his deeply troubling support of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research). And no amount of jeering by dems over Hagee's endorsement of McCain is going to change this fact. Besides, I would think Obama and Clinton supporters have plenty of other things to be concerned about.
Amen.
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