Posted on 10/12/2016 6:02:51 PM PDT by Morgana
The campaign of pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is coming under fire today after top Clinton officials mocked Catholics, calling their faith “severely backwards.”
Yesterday, Wikileaks released transcripts of an email exchange entitled “Conservative Catholicism” between Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, campaign spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri, and John Halpin, a staffer at the Clinton allied Center for American Progress.
In the email thread Halpin mocks News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Robert Thompson, Managing Editor of Wall Street Journal, for raising their kids Catholic.
Halpin writes about these Catholics: “They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy…”
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Clinton spokesperson Palmieri agreed: “I imagine they think it is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”
Halpin replied: “Excellent point. They can throw around ‘Thomistic’ thought and ‘subsidiarity’ and sound sophisticated because no one knows what the hell they’re talking about.”
Brian Burch, the head of the pro-life group CathlicVote, is livid and is calling on these top Clinton campaign officials to be fired.
“Aside from their blatant bigotry and ignorance about the philosophy and social teachings of Catholicism, does anyone notice a pattern here?” he asked. “Hillary has already called half of her opponents’ supporters ‘a basket of deplorables’ and ‘irredeemable.’ Now we get a glimpse of what her staff and friends think about Catholics in particular: They mock Catholic converts. They ridicule Catholics for raising their kids Catholic. They call our faith ‘severely backwards.’”
“Make no mistake, had Clinton staff and allies spoken this way about other groups, they would be dismissed. Just imagine if Clinton’s spokesperson was caught calling prominent Muslims or Jewish converts frauds for embracing their faith and mocking them for doing so because it was socially acceptable,” Burch continued. “This morning we called on Jennifer Palmieri to resign immediately from the Clinton campaign.”
Even evangelical leaders like Raplh Reed of Faith & Freedom Coalition, are upset.
“I am deeply troubled by the emails within the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign that show senior campaign officials smearing and ridiculing Roman Catholics and evangelicals. This is anti-Christian bigotry, pure and simple. It is sad, offensive, and un-American,” he told LifeNews.com.
“It reveals a corporate culture at the Hillary Clinton campaign that tolerated the expression of bigoted and prejudicial views of people of faith. No one should be attacked because of their deeply-held religious beliefs, much less by senior officials of someone who aspires to the presidency,” he continued.
Reed concluded: “That Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chair was included in these emails and apparently raised no objection and made no correction to those in her employ is also profoundly disturbing. I call on Mrs. Clinton to apologize for this anti-Christian bigotry and discipline or otherwise make the changes necessary to remove this stain of anti-Christian bigotry from her campaign.”
You Catholics make me mad I’m just a deplorable, you’re “severely backwards deplorable”. I’m jealous.
They call a severely backward, yet praise and defend Islam. Incredible.
Corrected: They call us Catholics severely backward, yet praise and defend Islam. Incredible.
PFL
Yeh but will the broader base of Catholics even hear about this? Trump definitely needs to bring this up in the debate.
Banking on that he certainly will.
We’ll see how many get in the baskets at Mass this weekend.
We “severely backwards deplorables” will welcome you with open arms.
Yes that and their toilet habits and choice of sex partner (goat)
Leaving aside the use of the word “backwards” instead of “backward,” I would point out that the Nazis had a comprehensive protocol for dealing with those who were “backward.”
Of course we may be getting ahead of ourselves, because no one has yet asked Hillary or her “spokeswoman” what measures she will recommend for dealing with the “backward” populations of our country.
Now that is funny.Whatever you are,you’re next.
Way Irish Catholic myself...I have to say the Catholic bashing is resonating. I showed this all to a friend that’s not Internet savy and he was shocked.
This hits pay dirt with the blue collar “...democrats care about the little guy” crowd.
This election certainly has taken some interesting turns. We’ve gone from the sewer to the saints in four days. Never did I think the positions and philosophies of Thomas Aquinas would become part of this election. God presents himself in the most unexpected places.
Yes, I am a severely backwards deplorable redneck Catholic.
I wonder if this information will make it into a single homily or diocese newspaper?
You guys have apparently hit a nerve worth Hillzabub. Heres a big protestant 2 thumbs up!
“This hits pay dirt with the blue collar “...democrats care about the little guy” crowd.”
THIS STORY HAS LEGS!!! Americans of Polish, Irish, Italian, French and German heritage will NOT be pleased!!! THIS is typical of the SLIME that surrounds Hillary!!!!!
From the Washington Times, April 30, 2012:
New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism
[snip]
Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name "Forward!" or its foreign cognates. Wikipedia has [since deleted] an entire section called "Forward (generic name of socialist publications)."
"The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other left-wing newspapers and publications," the online encyclopedia explains.
The slogan "Forward!" reflected the conviction of European Marxists and radicals that their movements reflected the march of history, which would move forward past capitalism and into socialism and communism.
The Obama campaign released its new campaign slogan Monday in a 7-minute video. The title card has simply the word "Forward" with the "O" having the familiar Obama logo from 2008. It will be played at rallies this weekend that mark the Obama re-election campaign's official beginning. ..."
Oh, and by the way the Center for American Progress is directly tied to SOROS!!!!!
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