I always find it irritating how a certain breed of leftie tries to
turn issues of conscience into political caricature - by their very nature certain issues transcend political association (I know you will deny this was your intention, Sunder, but the approach of the «progressives» on this is too consistently crude for this to be an isolated coincidence).
If the head
of state could again happen to be a Catholic, and if Mr. Ratzinger completes a hard - right
turn of the office he holds, would we want to have a monarch deal with
issues of conscience of the kind: push my country towards conforming to Catholic dogma, abdicate or risk my soul?