{"id":199405,"date":"2007-08-01T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/01\/equal-opportunity-bigots-republican-evangelicals-hate-both-catholics-and-mormons\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T21:33:00","slug":"equal-opportunity-bigots-republican-evangelicals-hate-both-catholics-and-mormons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/01\/equal-opportunity-bigots-republican-evangelicals-hate-both-catholics-and-mormons\/","title":{"rendered":"Equal Opportunity Bigots:  Republican Evangelicals Hate BOTH Catholics and Mormons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I hate to agree with a group of bigots like Donohue&#8217;s Catholic league, and as much as I would like to feel a little bit of Schadenfreude about this as a Jew who has been routinely slandered by him and his little hate group, I have to agree with him here.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2007\/07\/anti-catholic-b.html\">Catholic bashing letter<\/a> sent by the incredibly aptly named Huckabee Supporter Reverend Rude saying, &#8220;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Huckabee is an evangelical. He has not learned how to speak to evangelicals; i.e. Bush 41 &amp; 43. He is one of us. I know Senator Brownback converted to Roman Catholicism in 2002. Frankly, as a recovering Catholic myself, that is all I need to know about his discernment when compared to the Governor&#8217;s. I don&#8217;t if this fact is widely known among evangelicals who are supporting Brownback<\/span>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>It would appear that Tim Rude got his ordination from a cereal box, and his sense of right and wrong from either Father Coughlin or William Donohue himself.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to dismiss him as just a crank supporter, but he is more than that.  He is a campaign volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>If Governor Huckabee is serious about disavowing this, he needs to take two steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kick the person off the campaign immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Get this person to publicly apologize.<\/li>\n<li>State clearly that no speeches or political events will be held at the Walnut Creek Community Church in Windsor Heights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I hate to agree with a group of bigots like Donohue&#8217;s Catholic league, and as much as I would like to feel a little bit of Schadenfreude about this as a Jew who has been routinely slandered by him and his little hate group, I have to agree with him here. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}