Posted on 10/13/2016 5:10:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Some of Hillary Clinton’s top campaign staff appears to hold a deep reservoir of contempt for Catholics and Evangelical Americans, according to the latest batch of WikiLeaks emails.
The new revelations came from a 2011 email exchange between Campaign Chairman John Podesta, Communications Director Jennifer Palmiere and John Halpin from the Center for American Progress.
The emails portrayed Conservative Catholicism as a “bastardization of the faith” and seemed to imply that Evangelicals are a bunch of impoverished country bumpkins.
Mr. Halpin fired off an email titled, “Conservative Catholicism” to Mr. Podesta and Ms. Palmieri referencing a New Yorker article written by Ken Auletta.
The article pointed out that 21st Century Fox Chairman and Fox News Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch along with News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson raised their children Catholic.
That bit of news was just too much for Mr. Halpin’s delicate psyche to handle.
“Friggin’ Murdoch baptized his kids in Jordan where John the Baptist baptized Jesus,” Mr. Halpin wrote.
Getting dunked like a Mississippi Southern Baptist seemed to set off Mr. Haplin
“Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the SC and think tanks to the medial and social groups,” he went on to say.
Ms. Palmieri piled on with a nasty slap at Evangelicals.
“I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion,” she replied. “Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”
Mr. Halpin went on to call the conservative movement within the Catholic Church “an amazing bastardization of the faith.”
“They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy,” he wrote.
Outrage was fast and furious.
The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue called on Clinton to immediately sanction the campaign staffers.
“Hillary Clinton is not responsible for this Catholic bashing, but she has a moral obligation to sanction Mr. Podesta and Ms. Palmieri immediately,” Donohue said. “Their contempt for Catholicism is palpable.”
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told Fox News the email exchange was troubling.
“They believe that people who want to live by their faith are backwater people,” he said. “Hillary and her team hold Evangelicals in disdain.”
If the Clinton campaign wants to address the issue of bastardizing faith - perhaps they should have a coffee klatch with their boss.
In 2015, Mrs. Clinton suggested that Christians should change their religious beliefs to expand abortion.
“Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will,” she said. “And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
Hillary Clinton is not just running for president. Now, she wants to be pope.
I’m not terribly surprised that this sort of anti-Christian bigotry has infested Clinton’s campaign. She’s cut from the same cloth as President Obama - the one who labeled folks who “cling to their religion” as bitter Americans.
Nevertheless, what Clinton’s campaign staff said about Catholics and Evangelicals was shameful and must be repudiated.
I doubt she would tolerate anyone on her staff uttering a cross word about Muslims — so who does she harbor anti-Catholic and anti-Evangelicals on her campaign team?
Then again, this is the same crowd that tossed all of us Bible-believing Christians into her basket of deplorables.
They think we’re irredeemable.
Oh noes, the Roman Catholic church is starting to look a bit Protestant about its faith... Martin Luther is smiling.
**Evangelicals are a bunch of impoverished country bumpkins.**
WOW! Bashed 3 groups in one statement!
Eh? How so?
Granted the church depicted looks oddly sparse.
Renewed interest in biblical fundamentals.
Morally speaking, you mean?
Those of us in the traditionalist camp are the strongest voice against liberalism in the Catholic Church, but I wouldn’t say we are becoming more Protestant. We tend to be the Latin Mass and incense types, and the libs tend to be those who want us to look more like a mainline Protestant denomination (not one of the morally conservative ones, obviously).
That said, Hillary’s minions are gunning for all Christians, and we all need to stand shoulder to shoulder on this. We can go back to having civil discussions after we send the armies of Hell back where they belong.
And yet if “we keep a Latin mass” is the best thing you can say about your practice of Christian faith, then that begs for the question to be asked: what do you do with Jesus Christ once you are outside the church doors?
It’s more than mere “morality.” “Morality” can be had by pagans who robustly refuse Christ. It’s about the way Jesus lives in and among Christians who call on Him to assist them to do so.
HiTech, I enjoy your posts, but seriously, is this the time for this discussion?
There’s no greater union with Our Savior than at Mass when we receive Him. Every Sunday I am there pleading with Him to remake my poor soul in His image and begging His mercy. The rest of the week I am trying to respond well to His grace (very badly) in every thing I do. I am trying to live my entire life devoted to God, trying to be closer to Him every day, and accept His holy will in all things. And I have found from my experience that I can best do all this in the context of the traditional liturgy rather than a modern slovenly service where people treat receiving Our Lord as if it were no big deal.
I didn’t mean any of this to turn into an apologia for Catholicism. I was merely trying to point out that your assessment above, that we are becoming more Protestant, is not the case. If anything we are more attached to the teaching of Trent than other Catholic groups.
We are ‘irredeemables’ are we?
I have news for Hillary since she seems to be ignorant of Christian beliefs. We already have a Redeemer, the one and only Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
So she and her trashy staff can go take baths, perhaps in the Jordan River????
Very well said.
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