The New York Analysis of Policy & Government begins a two part examination of anti-Christian bias within the Clinton campaign.
Wikileaks’s recent exposure of anti-Catholic statements by Clinton campaign officials should be understood as part of the Left’s drive to reduce the influence of most faith-based organizations.
Emails from Clinton campaign director Jennifer Palmieri to campaign chair John Podesta discussed their views of Catholics as being “backwards” and, most disturbingly, included a desire for inducing change in the religion. Voices for Progress President Sandy Newman also emailed Podesta, speculating that the opposition of Catholic bishops to mandatory insurance for contraceptives could be used to spark a revolution within the Church.
It is chilling that political figures would consider interfering in the internal workings of a religion.
A Lifesitenews article quotes New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who stated that the comments were “extraordinarily patronizing and insulting to Catholics.”
Statements from Democrat leaders demonstrate their disdain for Christian religious denominations, as noted in the September 26 edition of the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. These comments have become fairly standard.
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It’s not just words; their biases are clearly reflected in policy. The Gatestone Institute previously reported that “The Obama administration has taken in 5,435 Muslim refugees, but only 28 Christians — even though Christians are approximately 10 percent of Syria’s population and are classified as experiencing a genocide there.” More Syrians have since been admitted, but the near total exclusion of Christians remains. Gatestone also stressed that “the ‘Caliph’ of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ridiculed by Charlie Hebdo, triggered self-censorship because of ‘hate speech,’ while the work of Chris Ofili ‘The Holy Virgin Mary,’ in which the mother of Jesus is covered with feces and images of genitalia, was defended by the New York Times as ‘free speech.’ Does this now mean that some religions are more equal than others?”
It follows a long pattern of denigrating statements and actions from Democrat leaders concerning religion. Obama deprecated those who practice religion as bitter people clinging to their bibles and guns, and Obamacare supporters refused to accept that religious principles prevented some nonprofits from accepting certain mandates in the health care legislation. In 2014, Houston’s Democrat mayor Annise Parker attempted to subpoena sermons of conservative pastors.
While the latest Clinton-related comments were targeted at Catholics, the reality is Christian groups in general have frequently been in the crosshairs of leftist Democrats and many of their media allies.
The media has long ignored the left’s open bias. American Thinker’s Stephen Kokx wrote in 2012 described, in 2012, a lawsuit by 43 Catholic organizations to protect their rights from the intrusions of Obamacare mandates, and the media’s lack of coverage for that action. “Similar to the media’s decision to not report on the half-million or so protesters who attended the March for Life rally this past January, outlets like ABC, NBC, and CBS — all of whom spent hours on end drooling over comments made by a 30-year-old law student [Sandra Fluke, who, notes WND, was the “the feminist attorney who in 2012 claimed she couldn’t afford the $9 monthly cost of birth control pills and has said taxpayers should pay for it , but managed to loan her own legislative campaign a hefty sum of $100,000.]– have largely ignored what has become the largest legal defense of religious liberty in American history…Evidence of big media’s bias against religion is beyond dispute,” writes Cal Thomas, a Catholic commentator. Noting the countless number of attacks on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, Thomas concludes that ‘any faith attached to a conservative agenda is to be ridiculed, stereotyped and misrepresented [by the media]. Islam is a notable exception… Not long ago, ABC decided to air a program originally entitled Good Christian Bitches. Though the show changed its name and was canceled due to low ratings, it proved Cal Thomas’s point about the media’s double standard when it comes to religion. Could you imagine a sitcom entitled Angry Muslim Clerics…?”
The report concludes tomorrow.