text: As for Catholic politicians, their right to act pluralistically is assured under Dignitas Humanae. Period. I would rather that they take on a teaching role and inform the hierarchy about how much they are being played by the GOP and how Roe can be seen as rightly decided, not on the result but on the relevant constitutional issues and especially the primacy of the federal courts on equal protection and due process cases, including gay marriage, contraception, abortion, legal private sodomy and especially the Church's right to exist in Alabama where most everyone considers the Pope the anti-Christ.