NYT Respects Catholic College’s Lefty Attack on Boehner, But Obama Abortion Protests Just ‘High-Pitched Indignation’

Speaker John Boehner will deliver the commencement address at the Catholic University of America on Saturday, inspiring a letter of protest from Catholic professors claiming the Republican budget resolution for 2012 “will hurt the poor, the elderly and the vulnerable, and that he therefore has failed to uphold basic Catholic moral teachings.” New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein filed a respectful story that made the front of Thursday’s National section, ” Critical Letter By Catholics Cites Boehner on Policies .” Yet when President Obama delivered the commencement address at Notre Dame in May 2009 amid protests that the preeminent Catholic university shouldn't be honoring a president who supports partial-birth abortion, the Times' response was snippy and dismissive . And

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