Colson on Carhart and the Court's Catholics

Charles Colson -- an (obviously) prominent Evangelical and, among other things, the inspiration for the Prison Fellowship -- released this statement, after several critics of the Court's recent partial-birth abortion ban attributed the Catholic Justices votes to uphold the ban to, well, their Catholicism.  Here's a bit:

If you uphold a law approved by both parties in Congress and supported by most Americans, you are imposing your morality. But if you vote against the ban, you have nobly kept your religious views from interfering with your job. The ugly implication here is obvious: that it is not possible for faithful Catholic judges to carry out their responsibility to interpret and uphold the law. . . .

Protestants have a special duty to condemn anti-Catholic bigotry. Shamefully, at one time many Protestants accepted the vile teachings of Paul Blanchard, author of American Freedom and Catholic Power. They supported the anti-Catholic agenda of the group for which he was general counsel: Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Our Catholic brethren should not have to wait to hear our voices forcefully raised against the bigotry now directed against them.

Interesting times.