Doug Kmiec, the Reagan administration official who has become a key Obama supporter, has posted a new piece in Progressive Revival laying out his basic “Catholic” case for Obama. He writes:

Bishops and Republican Partisans – An Unholy and Unseemly Team If there was one disturbing injustice of the campaign, it was that a few members of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in America indulged low partisanship, and worse, allowed Republican partisans to purvey – sometimes on church property — the untenable idea that voting for Senator Obama was contrary to the faith, a cooperation with evil, or an invitation to eternal damnation. Worst of all, a few prelates asserted this false preemption of individual conscience themselves. Thankfully, the conference of U.S. bishops had in place a thoughtful exposition of the responsible considerations to be undertaken by a Catholic in preparation to vote – the most prominent of which was the reminder that we are not to be “single-issue” voters, even as we may find an intrinsic evil to be disqualifying if both the candidate and our intent is to advance that evil and we lack proportionate justification for accepting that evil in a remote way. Notwithstanding the distortions of the less than Grand Old Party that has grown lazy winning on the incitement of fear, neither candidate is an advocate of evil, and the duty of a Catholic voter is a straightforward matter of satisfying the casting of a ballot with right intention. With respect to Senator Obama in particular, as indicated in my book “Can a Catholic Support Him?” The answer is enthusiastically “yes, we can!”

One such figure would be Denver Archbishop Chaput who feels the Bishops should be even more forceful in their emphasis on abortion as the issue. (Hat tip Pontifications)