Something stinks about Hillary Clinton's 'anti-Catholic' scandal
Peter Weber
October 17, 2016
Well, thanks to WikiLeaks, we now know that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is filled with liberal Catholics. I'm not talking about former Jesuit volunteer Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Clinton's running mate, or even Vice President Joe Biden, who has been stumping for Clinton.
Among the hacked private emails from the Gmail account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta are some comments that Podesta and Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri — both Catholic — made about reforming their church and about political conservatives, some of whom are also Catholic. One of the two email exchanges (so far) includes politically questionable language about Catholics and evangelical Christians.
Conservative critics, including Donald Trump's campaign, are calling the emails anti-Catholic. That stretches the definition of "anti-Catholic" beyond any recognizable or reasonable meaning.
"If only on behalf of her Catholic running mate," Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence said at Liberty University on Wednesday, "Hillary Clinton should denounce those bigoted, anti-Catholic, anti-evangelical remarks and her campaign staff should apologize to people of faith and do it now." Joseph Cella, Trump's chief liaison to Catholics, said the emails "reveal the depths of the hostility of Hillary Clinton and her campaign toward Catholics," and "the open anti-Catholic bigotry of her senior advisers, who attack the deeply held beliefs and theology of Catholics."
http://theweek.com/articles/655175/something-stinks-about-hillary-clintons-anticatholic-scandal