Obama Taps Law School Prof to Be Envoy to Malta

From Pepperdine University

A constitutional law scholar and a frequent contributor to opinion pages and journals nationwide has been named President Obama's choice to be ambassador to Malta. Though he is a conservative Republican, anti-abortion, Catholic and a former appointee of Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Douglas W. Kmiec endorsed Obama during the Democrat's presidential campaign -- and was denied communion at least once because he did so. He said Obama's views on wages, health care and the cost of the Iraq War appealed to him. Though he disagreed with Obama's pro-choice views, Kmiec said he was impressed that the candidate wanted to discuss the issue more civilly and hoped to reduce abortions by addressing contributing causes, such as poverty. Kmiec, just before Californians considered a statewide initiative on limits to same-sex marriage, publicly opposed Prop. 8 and said government should not be involved in marriage because it is a religious rite. The Senate is expected to take up his nomination in September. Malta, a small Mediterranean island nation with a population of 400,000, has a prominent place in Christian history. The Apostle Paul was said to have been shipwrecked there and then there's the Knights of Malta ... 

Constitutional Scholar Nominated as Envoy to Malta  

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