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Conservative Catholic Republican Endorses Obama
Associated Press
March 28, 2008
MALIBU, Calif. - One of the nation's top conservative Republican Catholic legal scholars has endorsed Democratic Senator Barack Obama for president.
Constitutional law professor Douglas Kmiec, who served in the Reagan administration and in Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, says he believes Obama can unite the country and inspire Americans to overcome racial and religious divisions.
Kmiec supports the Catholic teaching that abortion is a grave moral evil, but also considers the war in Iraq to be a life issue. Kmiec says the church was troubled by arguments for a "pre-emptive war" that has proven costly in both lives and treasure.
Kmiec, former dean of the Catholic University law school, now teaches at Pepperdine University.
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