Oct 14, 2004 / 22:00 pm
Catholic League president William Donohue said the remark Senator John Kerry made about abortion during the final debate of the presidential race Oct. 13 is erroneous and misrepresents Catholicism.
When asked about his support for abortion rights Oct. 13, Kerry said: “I believe that I can’t legislate or transfer to another American citizen my article of faith.”
“In making this argument, Kerry erroneously equates the Catholic Church’s opposition to abortion with the Church’s dogmatic teachings on such subjects as the Trinity, Incarnation and Immaculate Conception,” Donohue said.
“There is a fundamental difference between a human rights issue like abortion, and the Church’s teachings on the Trinity,” Donohue explained. “Were Catholic bishops to advise Catholic legislators to pass laws demanding that all public school students be instructed in the wisdom of the Trinity, they would be crossing the line between church and state.