If anyone is a subscriber to the Weekly Standard and has access to the online edition, would you mind sending me the text of J. Bottum’s recent article on Kerry and Catholicism? I’d like to see what he has to say.

Later: Okay! Stop! Thanks!

Good piece, here’s a quote:

Now, 44 years after Kennedy–76 years after Smith–the Democratic party
has nominated its third Catholic for president. And it seems safe to
bet the number of votes from people like my grandmother that John Kerry
will receive solely for his Catholicism should equal just about zero.
The number of votes he will lose should total around the same. Never was
there a less Catholic moment in American politics.

Or maybe I mean a more Catholic moment in American politics–it’s all
so confusing. If you’re a serious-enough Catholic to be tempted to vote
in sectarian solidarity, then you’re also a serious-enough Catholic to
dislike the pro-abortion Kerry. And if you’re a zealot who votes
against anything with the least odor of Catholicism, then you probably don’t
have much choice except Kerry, the Catholic. For where anti-Catholic
bigotry in 1960 came mainly from the Evangelical right, it comes
overwhelmingly in 2004 from the pro-abortion left–who certainly aren’t going
to vote for Bush.