Senate confirms Douglas Kmiec as US ambassador for Malta
Prof. Douglas Kmiec
The US Senate has confirmed Douglas Kmiec as ambassador to Malta.
The main catholic cheerleader for the Obama presidential election, Prof. Kmiec is a Pepperdine University law professor who drew scorn during the campaign because of his support for Obama, an abortion advocate.
Prof. Kmiec said in a statement:
"The confirmation process is long and thorough, as it must be. Nevertheless, like any examination - and I have both taken and given more than my share - it is satisfying to have it concluded and concluded so well. I know in going to this ancient place of beauty and antiquity where there is history at every turn, that I will be representing the sovereignty of the United States. The fidelity one owes to country and countrymen make that humbling indeed. With the high esteem in which our president and secretary of state are held abroad, it is a particularly good moment to be taking up this responsibility. I embrace it."
Prof. Kmiec was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel during the Reagan administration but appears to have fallen away from his involvement with pro-life political leaders.
He was denied communion and some say he exposed himself as not fully pro-life in an October article where he said that sometimes the law must leave space for the exercise of individual judgment, since religious or scientific differences of opinion were too profound to be bridged collectively
Prof. Kmiec was dean of Catholic University’s law school from 2001 to 2003 and was a professor at the University of Notre Dame’s law school.
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Joseph Schembri
Aug 12th 2009, 00:29
The new Ambassador is not in favour of abortion. I am against it too. He just said that there are instances in life that may put one in very difficult situations and it is hard to judge.
Meanwhile I humbly ask the new Ambassador to urge his government to abolish Capital punishment in all the USA. Other EU heads of states have already asked President Obama to consider this and be in line with European ideals in this matter.
For me the terms 'progressive and liberal' mean respect to all human life and to individual freedoms.
Carmel Serracino-Inglott
Aug 11th 2009, 23:03
I am not happy because to me one who approves murder is definitely not a true Catholic and an accomplice to murder and so as quilty as a murderer. The new ambassador is welcome here because we catholics might make him once more see light and convert him back to the fold of pro-life. I will pray for his conversion and ask others to join me. We have this tool which non believers have not. We have faith and beg the HOLY GHOST to show us the way and thus safe many infants or rather murders.
Joseph Micallef
Aug 11th 2009, 22:17
There is nothing "progressive" in being in favour of abortion! Killing the innocent is not progressive - its more like regressive in fact!
Joseph Schembri
Aug 11th 2009, 18:40
Congratulations to the new ambassador who has shown that it is possible to be Catholic and liberal and progressive at the same time.
I would also like to say how happy I am with the current USA Charge d'affaires in Malta, Mr. Jason Davis, who has in his short stint as representative of the USA in our country shown his commitment to the value of diversity and minority rights. He has done so without much fanfare but firmly and with dignity.