Thoughts from the Right: "The Integration of Faith and Politics"

You might want to head over to Will Bloomfield's blog, Thoughts from the Right, to read his insightful comments on the different approaches taken by Democrats and Republicans to integrating faith and politics:

Many Catholics justify their support for Democrats by trying to argue that Republicans get it wrong on some issues too, and that if Democrats get it wrong on abortion, homosexuality, and secularism, they get it right on the death penalty, poverty, environment, etc. In fact, liberal Catholic groups like to "grade" our Catholic Congressmen, and the liberals like Ted Kennedy and Dick Durbin almost always get very high grades, whereas conservative Catholics like Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback are always graded poorly.

There are many reasons why I these grades are wrong, but at this time, I would simply like to make an observation.

It's interesting that the Catholic Democrats get the highest grades because these are the same Democrats who repeatedly tell us that it is wrong to impose one's morality, especially on abortion. So what principles are these highly graded Democratic senators basing their decisions on?

I think it's hard to praise someone as a good Catholic legislator when that person is adamant that his faith does NOT inform his politics.