John and Trent, sitting in a tree?
Maybe I should go back and research what kind of comments John Kerry was making against Trent Lott, back when the latter was busy shooting himself in the foot. Because the two have something in common, if you read into comments made by William Donohue of the Catholic League: one insinuated that Jim Crow wasn't such a bad idea, and the other has made comments ethically supportive of the 1857 Dred Scott decision.
"Kerry's dichotomy," Donohue said, "was advanced by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857 in the Dred Scott decision."Will John Edwards get jealous that the Massachusetts liberal is courting another Dixiecrat?"In that ruling, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote that members of 'the Negro race' were 'not regarded as a portion of the people or citizens of the government.' Similarly, he concluded that 'it is too plain for argument, that they have never been regarded as part of the people or citizens of the state."
Donohue said Kerry's view was at odds with that of most practicing U.S. Catholics who, he said, "know that a baby is a person, and persons have rights, beginning with the right to be born."
(hat tip: Catholic[?] Kerry Watch, note my correction in the comments)
