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DaisyVo1212


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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30670354/


NEW YORK - A campaign by outraged Roman Catholics to keep President Barack Obama from delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame shows that the gulf between the church and backers of abortion rights remains deep.

Yet the effort to get the school to rescind its invitation to Obama also highlights a political disconnect between the conservative Catholic hierarchy and millions of U.S. Catholic voters.

Since the White House announced in March that Obama had accepted Notre Dame's invitation to speak May 17, more than 358,000 people have signed an online petition demanding that the university take back the offer.

 The Cardinal Newman Society, an advocacy group for Catholic colleges that circulated the position, said the invitation violated a 2004 bishops' mandate that stated, "The Catholic community and Catholic institutions should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles."

Notre Dame students are generally enthusiastic about Obama's impending visit to their northern Indiana campus. He won about 57 percent of the students' vote in a mock election in October, compared with 41 percent for Republican John McCain, an abortion rights opponent.

What do you think?



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Obama won 57% of the vote in the mock election because they "wanted change"(they definitely got it...).

Most people who vote put aside their views about abortion. Because it's such a touchy subject, the two candidates worked hard to keep Abortion out of the campaign.

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even if you dont agree with another persons views you can still learn from their point of view

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I personally would not be excited to have HIM speak but to have the PRESIDENT speak would make me happy.

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cause I mean Obama is totally going to reflect on his views of abortion during the speech.  Its a graduation speech, not an abortion debate...

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i like that they didnt really use abortion in there campaigns because like karen said its a touchy subject

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I don't think he's gonna say anything about his views on abortion at the graduation...and most of their students want him there...so i think they should just let him speak. Like jason said, he's not attending an abortion debate, he's attending a graduation ceremony.

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The speech (about graduating!!) is going to be addressed to the students, not anyone else.  And it seems to me that it's only the parents and other Catholic organizations who are the ones who are protesting, not the students.  So if the students are ok with it, everyone else should be too because President Obama (whose going to talk about graduating from college) is going to be talking to the students.

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i think that because the students want him to speak, then they should let him. it's a graduation speech, nothing else. they're overreacting.

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