When the leader of Notre Dame decides to confer an honorary law degree on a President who has done everything in his power to be as pro-abortion as possible in both word and deeds, who has not done anything to reduce abortions, who when campaigning for the Democratic nomination told the crowd that they should choose him because after all he has done more for reproductive rights than any other candidates, what is the average Catholic to think? Notre Dame is not alone in conferring honors on pro abortion people, simply the most visible because the honor is being conferred on our President.
Sacred Heart University honored pro-abortion activist Kerry Kennedy. Xavier University commencement honored pro-abortion political activist Donna Brazile. University of San Francisco honored pro-abortion district attorney and Proposition 8 opponent, Kamala Harris.
Catholicism is not a democracy and no matter how many "Catholic" universities honor those who promote abortion, the Fifth Commandment bars killing. Like Ghandi said "Sometimes the truth is a minority of one". The official Catholic position is not articulate by the president of Notre Dame or the President of the United States it is by the Pope in the Vatican. It is heresy to say that you can honor politicians who promote intrinsic evils such as abortion which by their very nature are automatically evil. No amount of sophistry, no matter how many theologians thinking they know how many angels dance on the head of a pin, will change the intrinsic evil of abortion ever.
This is why people like Alan Keyes and Terry Randall showed up knowing they may be arrested, to publicize that what the President of Notre Dame has done by honoring President Obama this way is not in keeping with Catholic theology or American Catholic culture as previously expressed by Catholic institutions, who are proving to be unfortunately more and more only Catholic in name rather than philosophy or theology.
President Obama is not instrinsically evil as everyone can take an immoral stance from time to time, but when they do we must speak out and chastise them by appealing to their conscience, not honor them with an honorary law degree.