Cafardi Resigns

Nick Cafardi, a leading Catholic supporter of Obama and former dean of the Duquesne University Law School, recently wrote a provocative op-ed arguing that Catholics should vote for Obama on pro-life grounds other than the policy of criminalizing all abortion. He cited torture as a moral issue that Catholics should be more concerned with as a practical matter since the goal of criminalizing all abortion is, in his view, a lost cause. He has now resigned from the board of trustees for Franciscan University of Steubenville after an intense public campaign against him led by leading Republican theocon, Deal Hudson. No Catholic in a Catholic institution can endorse the Democrat without the risk of losing their job. That's where we've arrived.