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...political responses to the issue." Barely suppressing her anger, she questioned the timing of O'Connor's announcement. "Why is this letter coming out now of all times?" she asked. Unsatisfied by a vague answer from O'Connor, Ferraro pleaded, "I think that if you make reference to it again, you ought to make it clear you're referring to a 1982 document...
Timing aside, the disagreement between the two was over the meaning of the ambiguous language that the Ferraro letter, which had been drafted by an aide, had used. The Archbishop contended that Ferraro had "misrepresented" the position of the church. "The teaching of the Catholic Church is monolithic on the subject of abortion," he said. Indeed it is (see box). But Ferraro insisted that she was not referring in her letter to the official position of the church, which she agreed "is monolithic." Instead, she was referring to individual Catholics, contending that "there are a lot of Catholics...
...Ferraro's reception in Scranton, Pa., an area in which roughly one-third of the population is Catholic and the pro-life movement is strong, was far less gentle. Worried about possible violence, Scranton police substituted plainclothes officers for volunteer drivers in the Ferraro motorcade, and a state police helicopter monitored the route. She faced bitter signs at her speech site in a downtown mall. FERRARO-A CATHOLIC JUDAS, read one. I'M GLAD FERRARO WASN'T MY MOTHER, said another, held by a five-year...
...shouts of the several hundred protesters, however, were overwhelmed by the Ferraro supporters in the crowd of 5,000. The candidate did not duck the religion issue. "For the first time in over 20 years, religion has been injected into a presidential campaign," she told the crowd. "I have not welcomed it, and I do not want it to be an issue in this race. To me, my religion is a very personal and private matter. But when some people try to use religion for their partisan political advantage, then the freedom of us all is at risk." She said...
Within an hour after her speech, Scranton Bishop James Timlin, who had taken over O'Connor's former diocese after O'Connor was installed as Archbishop of New York, held a press conference. He sharply attacked Ferraro's attempt to separate her public duties from her religious views as "absolutely ridiculous." He likened her abortion position to the slavery issue. "You can't say," Timlin argued, " 'I'm personally opposed to slavery, but I don't care if others down the street have them.' " The bishop insisted that...