text: <"But a life form without a brain isn't (conclusively) a human person."</i>
  Does an acorn become a tree?  
  
  <"I approve of it, (Catholic ethic of life) for the most part."</i>
  For the most part? Such equivocation. You also support a woman's  to right to choose to kill a child in her womb as a "reproductive right". So are you for or against abortion - from the moment of conception - or not? 
  
  <"Theocrats wish to impose their religious convictions on a pluralistic polity, an agenda that will always meet with resistance in the USA."</i>
  Nonsense. The Catholic Church and Catholics are both entitled and obliged to exercise their duties as citizens in the public square in a pluralistic liberal democracy. That's not imposition - attempting to silence them is. Secularcrats do this all the time. 
  
  <"The nativity narratives are theological fiction">
  Sorry, I thought you were a Catholic. I didn't realise you were meddling in Catholic affairs all this time.