I found much of Kmiec’s letter incomprehensible, so I will not make a detailed response. (I am, by the way, using his last name, where he uses my first, not to indicate any hostility, but merely because I don’t know him.) I will say only that I do not think it odd “to be concerned about the declining population of the Western world including the United States, and its significant impact on human freedom, economic prosperity, and even military defense.” I do think it is odd to assert that Obama or Clinton would make serious inroads among Catholic voters by expressing that concern. It is an odd assertion because there is no reason to expect either candidate to say any such thing, and it is odd because Kmiec adduces no evidence–nor do I think any evidence exists–that significant numbers of American Catholic voters share this concern. If Kmiec had written an essay on why one Catholic Reaganite was attracted to Obama, it might have been interesting and worthwhile. Instead he repeatedly made dubious claims about the political psychology of Catholic Reaganites in general, which happened to line up very conveniently with his own sentiments.