Clinton staffers' anti-Catholic bias chilling - Bill Laverty

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Clinton staffers' anti-Catholic bias chilling

Bill Laverty is a retired business owner and Montgomery resident.

In the 1960 presidential election, Richard M. Nixon introduced anti-Catholicism into the campaign by suggesting John F. Kennedy was unfit because he would be beholden to the Vatican and separation of church and state concerns. More than half a century later, the ugly specter of Catholic/religious hate has raised its head again in a presidential election. In a series of email exchanges uncovered by WikiLeaks, Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta and Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri not only said hateful things about Catholics and evangelicals, but divulged a plan they referred to as the “Catholic Spring” (as in “Arab Spring”) to foment revolt within the Church to ensure its religious doctrines are aligned with Clinton/Democratic views and agenda. The 1960 election exposed Republican bigotry toward Catholics because of concerns of separation of church and state. Clinton 2016 exposes Democratic bigotry toward Catholics because Church doctrine does not comply with their beliefs.

Because WikiLeaks is the source of these documents, it brings an immediate dismissal from the left, but common sense and logic would lead the average person to concur with the veracity of the source. When Palmieri was asked if she sent the emails, she smugly replied “she didn’t recall and wasn’t going to fact check every stolen email.” If one was accused of saying something so hateful and especially to a key voting bloc (i.e., blue-collar Catholic Democrats in key swing states) and they truly did not say those hateful words, that person would certainly deny it. Not denying is admission in Team Clinton parlance.

The emails show in 2011 Podesta and Palmieri received a note from their Center for American Progress colleague, John Halpin. Halpin discusses a media report that Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thomson of News Corp. were raising their children Catholic. Halpin observes that many leading conservatives are Catholic and “must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations.” He also goes on to call Conservative Catholicism “an amazing bastardization of the faith.” Palmieri responds, “I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.” These statements are hateful and wrong on many levels. Imagine the outrage if the words “Catholic” and “evangelical” were replaced with “Islamic” and “black Southern Baptist.” They also reveal a troubling elitist view of the very motives of people who chose Catholicism.

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