Did the AP incorrectly state Archbishop Raymond Burkes “clarification” on voting for pro-abortion candidates?
It would seem so. In an April 25, 2007 AP story regarding Archbishop Burke’s protest of pro-abortion singer Sheryl “toilet paper remark was just a joke” Crow, reporter Christopher Leonard wrote: ‘Burke made national news during the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign by saying he would deny Communion to Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, a Catholic who supports abortion rights. He later clarified the statement to say Catholics can vote for such candidates if they believe the candidate’s stance on other moral issues outweighs the abortion-rights stance.’ But according to a 2004 story on LifeSiteNews.com: ‘The long-awaited clarification letter from St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke on the issue of voting for pro-abortion politicians has been released in the St. Louis diocesan newspaper. ‘Rather than backing down from his former statement that voting for a pro-abortion politician constituted a sin, Archbishop Burke has widened the scope of his direction against voting for anti-life
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