Donald Trump, Son of a Catholic Hater, Disgraces Al Smith Dinner
Cardinal Timothy Dolan was wrong to invite a demagogue who has sought to manipulate and inflame the very worst in us.
MICHAEL DALY
10.21.16 1:05 AM ET
Scripture advises us not to visit the sins of the father upon the son.
So nobody should hold it against Donald Trump that his father was arrested on Memorial Day in 1927 for participating in a Klu Klux Klan riot in his home borough of Queens. The riot was fueled in part by the prospect that Al Smith might become not just the Catholic governor of New York but the first Catholic president of the United States.
“Americans Assaulted by Roman Catholic Police of New York City” read KKK leaflets that went up in Queens the day after the arrest of Fred Trump and others.
But the son has embraced his father’s sins as his own in seeking to become president by stoking that very same kind of bigotry against Muslims and Mexicans and others.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/21/donald-trump-son-of-a-catholic-hater-disgraces-al-smith-dinner.html