Catholic Leaders Want Anti-Catholic Obama Advisor Removed

Washington D.C., May 15, 2009 (CNA).- A group of twenty Catholic and conservative leaders have written a letter to President Barack Obama protesting the appointment to his faith-based advisory council of a man they say is "a virulent anti-Catholic bigot." The letter lamented the president’s "failure to act" and called on him to remove the appointee.

The letter concerned Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships appointee Harry Knox (pictured at left), who had described the Knights of Columbus as an "army of oppression" for supporting California’s Proposition 8. (Well, in America you are a bigot if you are against: blacks, Jews, gay marriage, but to be anti-Catholic, anything that the Church stands for... you are protected by "Freedom of Expression")

Signatories to the letter included L. Brent Bozell III of the Media Research Center, American Life League President Judie Brown, Catholic League President Bill Donohue, Notre Dame Law Professor Emeritus Charles Rice, and conservative leader Phyllis Schlafly. (God bless them for standing up to the truth.)

Noting President Obama’s claim that the Council would "bring everyone together – from both the secular and faith-based communities," the group’s letter voiced concerns about Knox.

The letter said Knox, a former licensed Methodist minister who is a leader with the homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign (HRC), is "the hate-filled antithesis of this noble objective."

In the past, Knox had attacked Pope Benedict and some Catholic bishops as "discredited leaders" because of their opposition to same-sex "marriage."

Though saying the Knights of Columbus had done good works, he nevertheless characterized its members as "foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression" (huh? I fight against the murder of the innocent and the defenseless and he calls me part of an army of oppression? Who's oppressing who? You encourage mothers to kill their own child inside their wombs and you call yourself a champion of human rights?!? Yeah... right...) because of the Catholic charitable fraternity’s support for the successful California ballot measure Proposition 8.

Proposition 8 restored the definition of marriage to being between a man and a woman.

In their letter to President Obama, the group said they assumed President Obama and his Administration were previously unaware of Knox’s "deplorable, abusive attitude towards the Church and Pope Benedict XVI." Referring to recent press reports exposing what they said was Knox’s "loathsome and clearly bigoted rhetoric," the signatories said there was now no excuse for inaction.

"As Catholics, we call on you to remove Mr. Knox from his position and to formally disassociate yourself from his militant anti-Catholicism. Failure to do so will result in the tainting of your Faith-Based Council—and indeed, your entire administration—as anti-Catholic," the group said. (Well let's see what Clark Ke... uhrm, Mr. Obama does. Can't wait for the spin that White House spokesman, Mr. Gibbs, (no not the Pirates of the Carribean Gibbs) will say. He makes me laugh out laud for every response he made regarding the ND scandal.)

Brothers and sister, if we are not against the new persecution of the Church, the time when Christians were fed to the lions for not being "in with the times" like the worship of Caesar (today we call this Obama-mania), the murder of the innocents...then I don't know how to call it.