Catholic Democrats sent out the following in response to right-winger Bill Donohue attacking the Obama campaign for not doing Catholic outreach.
It’s not clear why a non-profit organization with a noble mission like that of the Catholic League — founded to defend Catholics in public life — would pay someone like Mr Donohue over $340,000 a year to launch repeated partisan attacks that actually smear fellow Catholics. When he’s not taking shots at those who don’t share his partisan loyalties, Mr Donohue seems to dedicate much of his time to electioneering for John McCain–for instance, by taking it upon himself to absolve the bigotry of anti-Catholics like John Hagee on behalf of all Catholics.
“It’s shameful that authentic efforts by the Obama Campaign to reach out to all Catholics should be attacked like this,” said Dr Patrick Whelan, President of the Catholic Democrats. “Senator Obama is far and away the best candidate for Catholics of all political stripes. Whether ending the pointless killing in Iraq, addressing the glaring economic disparities and rising gas prices left behind by the Bush Administration, or finding common ground on issues like abortion, Senator Obama is poised to stand up for Catholics and all people of faith in a way that hasn’t been seen in the halls of power for years.”
“To paraphrase Mark Twain,” Dr Whelan added, “the news of the Obama Catholic Advisory Council’s demise has been greatly exaggerated.”
It may come as a surprise to the Catholic League’s president, but the information he’s looking for can be found easily in hundreds of newspaper articles and online references to Senator Obama’s Catholic Advisory Council, including our own on the Catholic Democrats website. The Obama Campaign itself has a blog with thousands of posted articles and testimonials from Catholics and other people of all faiths who are supporting Senator Obama.
“Bill Donohue’s perpetual bullying serves to remind us that he has no official capacity in the Catholic Church,” said Dr Whelan. “The crudeness of the criticism he levels every week at the millions of Catholics who support Senator Obama is the starkest illustration of the fact that Bill Donohue really speaks for no one but himself.”
Donohue is a poor example of Catholics from what I see, but what do I know, I am Jewish.
I’m Catholic, and he’s an idiot. Beyond that, his behavior is not in line with empathetic Catholic teachings. He’s a self-annointed hate-mongering troll who speaks for himself alone.
“Dissident Catholics”? What does that even mean? Is that like heretics?
Duros,
Probaby dissident from the mistaken impression that Catholics=Prolife=conservative.
I’m a lapsed Catholic but never knew a hack like Donohue. He is embarrassing!
Bill Donahue is the answer to left’s constant trashing of Christian Values. Touche!
“Bill Donahue is the answer to left’s constant trashing of Christian Values. Touche!”
Bill Donahue is a clueless hack who is too lazy and too biased to do any research before launching a partisan and factually incorrect attack against Senator Obama and his campaign.
“Bill Donahue is the answer…”
to the question: who is the idiot who lied about the Obama’s campaign not doing “Catholic outreach?”
Oliver Wills and others like him are ‘Cafeteria Catholics”. In other words they are not true Catholics. I suppose they support infanticide, partial birth murder and in-utero murder also. After all they support Obama who has voted in FAVOR of all these things.
Mike