Friday, May 01, 2009

Most Catholics Approve of Notre Dame's Choice of Obama

Obama's set to give the commencement speech at Notre Dame but you'd think the world was ending. Some people opposing his Notre Dame commencement speech are more rational than others but it's always the irrational people who get all the press.
More than half of the Catholics surveyed by the Pew Research Center who have heard of the dispute - 54 percent - say they support the school's choice of a commencement speaker. Just 38 percent of those who have heard about it oppose the idea. Among those who hadn't heard of the controversy, the divide is even greater - 45 percent say fine, 18 percent no. Swamp