The Matter with Kansas

This week, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kansas City voiced his opinion of what Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius may or may not do for her Cabinet position under Barack Obama,

Basically, Archbishop Joseph Naumann warned everyone that Sebelius might push for legal abortion rights in her new position.

Or in other words, he's using his power to shove his opinion onto others. 

According to the Associated Press, he has already expressed his concern for Sebelius' support of abortion rights and even told her to not take communion anymore, which sounds ridiculous.

Now, I'm not a hugely religious person, but I know enough about it to know that acceptance is at least some part of the Christian faith. What's worse is that Naumann has already jumped to the conclusion that Sebelius would automatically legalize abortion rights. In a new position. That hasn't even yet been confirmed.

Also reported, was that Catholic groups are scheming to protest Sebelius. I guess I don't understand what these groups will do in order to stop Sebelius, but I would hope greatly that they don't take any action until Sebelius makes clear that legalizing abortion rights might be in the works.

Somehow, I don't think that will happen.

Knowing the strong opposition that some religious Kansan conservatives have to anything other than what they know, I foresee this getting out of control. And if I get into that, this blog will never end.

I'll leave a funny comment from the LJWorld site to sum this up best. I'm not saying you have to agree, but it at least made me grin.