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American Catholics, left, right, and center, practice their faith with flexible
interpretations of core doctrine that are only made more complicated by the
thorough integration of Protestant theological assumptions into American
political thought and culture. American
Catholics are “cafeteria
Catholics” who confront immorality the way Supreme Court Justice Potter
Stewart famously confronted the question of what constitutes pornography.
Craven and ham-fisted efforts to twist these popular approaches to the practice
of Catholicism into prima facie evidence of hypocrisy or bigotry do a disservice
to our national political conversation and contribute mightily to the dumbing
down of American politics.