Kerry's Choice for Religious Outreach Director 'Confounding,' Group Says

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 6/15/04 | Melanie Hunter

[maryz]

the latest edition of Time magazine reports that only 7 percent of likely voters think Kerry is a man of strong religious faith," Donohue said.

I suppose it's reassuring that "only 7 percent of likely voters" need a keeper!

[maryz]

Mara Vanderslice, who formerly worked as religion outreach director for Democrat Howard Dean, was raised without any faith and didn't become an evangelical Christian until she attended Earlham College

She's an evangelical????

[AAABEST]

I'm starting to think this guy is intentionally trying to be profane.

[Thebaddog]

Would you listen to her? She should be taking my lunch order and being nice about it if she wants a tip.

[Aquinasfan]

"Given all this, his choice of Mara Vanderslice as his religious point woman is confounding. Her resume is that of a person looking for a job working for Fidel Castro, not John Kerry."

I wish the bishops had the guts of Bill Donohue.

[Aquinasfan]

....when Vanderslice was in college she was active in the Earlham Socialist Alliance, a group that.....openly embraces Marxism-Leninism.

Sounds like college to me.

[Dales]

Kat, sorry for not being around much lately-- I have been busy at work, there was the thing with my mom, and now my Uncle (in-law) has died.

However, I was able to verify most of the things in this article.

[piasa]

Tens of Thousands to Participate in the National March on Washington to Bring the Troops Home Now! and to End the Occupation of Iraq

On Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003, the ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Coalition held a panel discussion/press conference entitled Iraq: George W. Bush's "Vietnam"? at the National Press Club in Washington DC. The panel featured former U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark, Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, family members of U.S. GIs, and other leaders of the anti-war movement, who collectively discussed the growing mood in the United States to bring U.S. troops back from Iraq and to end the occupation.

Couple this with the recent coming out party for Jim Wallis and Clinton's new-found charitableness ... and I have to wonder if the recent abduction of a Catholic archbishop in Iraq will be the next thing libs can associate with to try to draw some religious folks to their ranks.

[Fedora]

Might be revealing to see if/how Fr. Jean-Marie Benjamin and/or Archbishop Renato Raffaele Martino (the former Vatica-UN liaison who was the most shrill Vatican critic of US action against Iraq, along with Jean-Louis Tauran, who issued statements that went beyond what John Paul himself said) chime in on it.

[piasa]

Speaking of Benjamin... he has his own web site :

www.benjaminforiraq.org

[piasa]

Jean Marie Benjamin of the Vatican got the rights to sell 4.5 million barrels as recompense for setting up a meeting between Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz ...

I wonder if he tithes in oil, cash, or blood...

[Fedora]

I think up until 2003 he tithed in oil vouchers.