Prof. Kmiec - Pope Benedict XVI's words to Nancy Pelosi were "intrusive" in legal matters

Prof. Kmiec of Pepperdine University has decided to weigh-in on B16's talk with Ms. Pelosi.

In his piece Prof. Kmiec implied that the Pope exaggerated or at least did not measure the consequences of his words when he told Nancy Pelosi that "jurists," in addition to legislators, must work "in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development."

In other words....." one doesn't need to over emphasis one's Catholic beliefs while holding office.
Find the least common denominator and go with that...

Hmmm... part-time catholic.

.....NOT

One is fully Catholic whether you a Legislator, a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, Bus Driver, School Teacher, Mom, Dad, Brother or Sister.

Professor Kmiec calls Pope's clarification to Pelosi 'intrusive'

Professor Douglas Kmiec, the scholar who provided a justification for allowing Catholics to vote for Barack Obama, despite the president's consistent pro-abortion track record, wrote last week on Time Magazine's website that Pope Benedict XVI's words to Nancy Pelosi were "intrusive" in legal matters, because they put the whole judicial system in an impossible moral dilemma.

In his piece Prof. Kmiec implied that the Pope exaggerated or at least did not measure the consequences of his words when he told Nancy Pelosi that "jurists," in addition to legislators, must work "in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development."

According to Kmiec, such a statement “has the potential, at least theoretically, to empty the U.S. Supreme Court of all five of its Catholic jurists, and perhaps all other Catholics who sit on the bench in the lower federal and state courts.”

The Pepperdine professor suggests the Pope, instead, could take "a different, less intrusive course," by "continuing to observe the difference between a jurist and a legislator."
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Carl from InsideScoop has the rebuttal

If I understand Douglas W. Kmiec's argument correctly...