{"id":669,"date":"2008-06-09T13:27:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/06\/catholic-league-is-obamas-cath.html"},"modified":"2008-06-09T13:27:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:27:42","slug":"catholic-league-is-obamas-cath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2008\/06\/catholic-league-is-obamas-cath.html","title":{"rendered":"Catholic League: Is Obama’s Catholic Board Toast?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"donohue.jpg\"It’s been a while since the Catholic League For Civil and Religious Rights last attacked the Obama campaign, but today it’s claiming victory in a battle that began more than a month ago, when the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue (pictured) blasted Obama’s new Catholic advisory board<\/a> as insufficiently Catholic. The Catholic League now says it appears that Obama has quietly disbanded the group<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments today on Sen. Barack Obama\u2019s Catholic National Advisory Council:
\n\u201cOn 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\u2014to dissolve the group\u2014may have been accepted.
\n\u201cThere 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\u2019s 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: \u2018I would like to know whether the Catholic National Advisory Council for Sen. Obama is still operative.\u2019 He has not replied.
\n\u201cIt 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\u2019s 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.
\n\u201cLooks like the Obama campaign\u2019s decision to quietly drop its Advisory Council didn\u2019t work. We found out, and we\u2019ve never been accused of being quiet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

God-o-Meter will check in with the Obama camp for a response.<\/p>\n


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