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Devout Catholics can argue about how the church's teachings on social justice are best reflected in a federal budget, but there's no argument red bottom shoes when it comes to the church's teaching on the intrinsic value of human life. Yet Dionne posited a moral equivalency between a congressman proposing less spending on social programs (so that they might be saved for future generations) and a president who: reinstated taxpayer subsidies for foreign nongovernmental organizations that promote and perform abortions overseas in his first week in office; enacted a health-care reform bill opposed by Catholicbishops and others on the grounds that federal dollars would be used to fund abortions; and narrowed Bush administration regulations enforcing the "conscience clause," which allows red sole shoes Catholics and other health-care workers who find abortion morally abhorrent to abstain from providing such services without their hospital being denied federal funding.
The professors and social work students had every right to object to Boehner's policies, and Dionne has every right to laud them for it. But their protests dominated the coverage, and I suspect that most of my fellow alumni were in spirit with those students who gave Boehner a standing ovation rather than with the protesters.