The Notre Dame Commencement Controversy

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I want to note that if you go to the graph at the link (not good enough quality to put up here properly), half of those polled didn't even know there was a controversy.

A just released Pew poll on the Obama/Notre Dame controversy finds that about half of Roman Catholics support the university's invitation to the president, while only 25 percent oppose it. Among white, weekly attending Catholics, however—among whom Obama did much better than expected last November—about half oppose Notre Dame's invite, while just a third support it.

This poll speaks to the importance of seeing Catholics, who constitute about a quarter of the country, as a population that is a part of multiple political constituencies, rather than as a single voting bloc.

So while most Catholics don't think there's a problem, Randall Terry is using an illegally gotten copy of the Notre Dame Alumni Directory to harass people and Bush's Ambassador to the Vatican is stomping her feet and won't attend to receive an honor. Bunch of bull.