Catholic League: Where's Obama's 'Catholic Advisory Council'?
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Many of the members were dissidents on vital issues such as the Right to Life. Did the Catholic League's Call for the Dissolution bring results?
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Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights (www.catholicleague.org/)
6/10/2008 (1 decade ago)
Published in Politics & Policy
NEW YORK, NY (Catholic League) - Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments today on Sen. Barack Obama's Catholic National Advisory Council:
"On May 2, I issued a news release calling on Sen. Obama to dissolve his Catholic National Advisory Council. My principal reason for doing so was his selection of dissident Catholics to advise him: for example, most of the public officials are so pro-abortion that they had a 100 percent NARAL record."
"On May 8, most members of the Advisory Council faxed me a letter defending themselves; I answered the same day taking them to task for their lame defense. But it now appears that my initial recommendation--to dissolve the group--may have been accepted."
"There is no mention anywhere on the Obama website of the Catholic National Advisory Council. On Friday, we placed three phone calls to his campaign: two to media relations and one to Mark Linton, Obama's National Catholic Outreach Coordinator."
"We were told each time that someone would get back to us, but no one did. I then personally e-mailed Linton informing him of the three phone calls, requesting that he respond to my question: 'I would like to know whether the Catholic National Advisory Council for Sen. Obama is still operative.' He has not replied."
"It would appear, then, that the group no longer exists. It is not hard to understand why."
"After being criticized by the Catholic League, Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City rebuked one of Obama's Catholic advisors, Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius: she was instructed not to present herself for Holy Communion (she is a rabid defender of abortion)."
"At about the same time, radical Chicago priest Rev. Michael Pfleger bailed on Obama by withdrawing his name from the Advisory Council. Now we find that there is no listing for the group on the Obama website."
"Looks like the Obama campaign's decision to quietly drop its Advisory Council didn't work. We found out, and we've never been accused of being quiet."
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The Catholic League is the nation's largest Catholic civil rights organization. Founded in 1973 by the late Father Virgil C. Blum, S.J., the Catholic League defends the right of Catholics – lay and clergy alike – to participate in American public life without defamation or discrimination. It is led by its' President, William A. Donohue, Ph.D.
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