3) Although personally pro-choice, I have great respect for people -- that would obviously include Catholic leaders and lay people -- who oppose abortion on moral grounds, as it's a complex and difficult issue for most people. But I've never understood why, when it comes to politics, that particular teaching of the Catholic Church seems to override all the other ones, especially the many Catholic teachings that are liberal in nature. Why, for example, would it be any less immoral to vote for Kerry in 2004 than to vote for George W. Bush, whose pre-emptive invasion of Iraq on false pretenses showed an extreme lack of respect for the sanctity of human life?