If abortion rights advocates weren’t already experiencing heartburn over uncertainty about Sonia Sotomayor’s position on the constitutionality of abortion, this should do it. Steve Waldman reports on Beliefnet.com that professional conservative Catholic Bill Donohue plans to “quietly root for” Sotomayor.
You may remember Donohue from such hits as “Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular” and The War on Christmas I, II, and III. He’s long been a critic of liberal Catholics and pro-choice Catholic politicians. So the fact that he’s not planning on all-out campaign to prevent Sotomayor from reaching the Supreme Court certainly counts as surprising.