Word: kmiec
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...pretty gentle soul. If you wanted to compare him to a personality, it would not be Donald Rumsfeld. He would be quieter, more reflective, quite temperate." -Douglas Kmiec, former Office of Legal Counsel head. (New York Times, June...
...defense. The president, Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has described Obama’s “visit as a basis for further positive engagement,” and not as “support [for] all of his positions.” And Douglas W. Kmiec, Obama’s most ostentatious Catholic booster during the election, panegyrized the President as a real “fightin’ Irish,” like Notre Dame, “when it comes to working for social justice.” American Catholic laymen on the right and left will...
...While new terminology for all may at first seem awkward - mostly in greeting-card shops - [it] dovetails with the court's important responsibility to reaffirm the unfettered freedom of all faiths to extend the nomenclature of marriage as their traditions allow," wrote Douglas W. Kmiec and Shelley Ross Saxer. Kmiec voted for Prop 8 because of his belief in the teachings of the Catholic Church and his notion of religious liberty but has since said he thinks the courts should not allow one group of Californians to marry while denying the privilege to others...
...Kmiec is chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University and author of Can a Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Question about Barack Obama (Overlook/Penguin...
...life" candidate than McCain. The GOP's single focus on overturning Roe, they argue, ignores the progress that could be made in lowering the abortion rate through changes in economic policies and by reforming adoption laws. Most recently, two high-profile Obama supporters - former Reagan Justice Department official Douglas Kmiec and actor Martin Sheen - have filmed a series of short videos making this case that are being disseminated by the Democratic PAC Matthew...