Gingrich: Kamala Harris Is an ‘Openly Anti-Catholic Bigot’

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I think Kamala displayed her anti-Cathoholicism whole heartedly irrespective of the other evidence (that in my opinion just backs it up).
 
. . . Catholic League President Bill Donohue wrote last week that Kamala Harris has a “Catholic problem” that could hurt Biden’s chances of winning over Catholic voters.

Harris has tarred herself “with the brush of anti-Catholicism,” Dr. Donohue wrote in an August 14 essay, by harassing Catholic judicial nominees and subjecting them to the equivalent of a religious litmus test. . . .
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TN Bishop: I Don’t See How Joe Biden Claims to Be a ‘Faithful Catholic'

Bishop Rick Stika questioned Joe Biden’s standing as a Catholic on Friday, basing that on Biden’s public stance against Church teaching.
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Can we agree that taking the American population as a whole, black, white, red and any other designated colour, slave owners themselves were outliers?

Can we also agree that being a slave owner correlated with being a Democrat every bit as much as it correlated with being white?

Given this fact cannot and in fact, should we not severely criticise the Democratic Party by continually bringing up slavery history in terms of race and ignoring the political context?

Especially because they do this as an obfuscation of truth and for their own political advantage which exacerbates racial division.

As far as anti Catholic nominees, the Left took over the Democratic Party long ago and the Left are Godless. I personally don’t expect anything less from their presidential ticket.

I say this full well knowing there are still, although a decreasing number, of faithful Christian supporters still attached to the Democratic Party.

My concern is that their Christianity is also decreasing to the dogmas of Leftism and this has been happening for decades to the detriment of society.
 
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Why it was once unthinkable for the president to be seen with the pope

The GOP was once the political home of anti-Catholicism. And the Vatican, it was believed, would use a Catholic president as a way to meddle in US politics.
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More generally, observers proclaimed that Catholics maintained allegiance to the church first and to American values and institutions second. Anti-Catholic cartoons suggested that Catholics would use political power to dismantle the nation’s institutions. This baseless fear had circulated in the U.S. since the arrival of Irish Catholics several decades earlier. It often centered on the belief that Catholics, at the pope’s behest, would try to dismantle the nation’s public education systems.
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Assuming any of this is true, for which you provided no evidence at all, it’s possible in the Catholic Church to obtain forgiveness for one’s past sins. As you know, Gingrich converted to Catholicism well after any of the events you cite.
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Is this something new in the US? Read some history of the Catholic Church in America. Practically non-existent before 1850.
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Before 1850 there were hardly any Catholics in the U.S., and most of them were of English descent, not much different from their protestant neighbors. Serious anti-Catholicism began with the Irish influx. But it has changed from an anti-immigrant bias to an ideological bias. It has not been all that long that the left has hated Catholicism for its moral positions and for being a competing ideology with the secularist “religion” of the elites.
 
Catholicism first came to the territories now forming the United States before the Protestant Reformation with the Spanish explorers and settlers in present-day Florida (1513), South Carolina (1566), Georgia (1568–1684), and the southwest. The first Catholic Mass held in the current United States was in 1526 by Dominican friars Fr. Antonio de Montesinos and Fr. Anthony de Cervantes, who ministered to the San Miguel de Gualdape colonists for the 3 months the colony existed.[10]

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History of the Catholic Church in the United States - Wikipedia

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As you know, Gingrich converted to Catholicism well after any of the events you cite.
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www.psychologytoday.com

Newt's conversion and reinvention

Newt Gingrich's conversion to Catholicism is an interesting reinvention, and even more so when viewed historically.
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Gingrich’s claimed moral authority is indeed unambiguous, for as a new Catholic he speaks to his audiences as a defender of God: “In America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life,” he warned a crowd recently.

The irony of Gingrich claiming moral authority can’t be overlooked, because few individuals carry with them his degree of public moral baggage. This is a man who cheated on his first wife, then confronted her with divorce papers while she was hospitalized for cancer treatment. He then cheated on his second wife while simultaneously berating Bill Clinton for a sex scandal with Monica Lewinski, aggressively leading the call for Clinton’s impeachment. He later became the first House speaker in history to be sanctioned for ethics violations. His eagerness to play the role of moral attack dog, of Grand Inquisitor, would be noteworthy anyway, but is even more remarkable in light of the train wreck of moral failures in his own life.
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Spanish populations in Georgia, Florida and South Carolina were miniscule. About 500,000 people of all religions lived in Louisiana; about 150,000 total residents in Texas. In 1850 there were about 1.6 million Catholics total out of a population of 23 million.

Non-English Catholics were very few. But all Catholics were few, being about 5% of the population.
 
The ineptitude of “Psychology Today”, if one did not know otherwise, is amply demonstrated in the article by its questioning of whether Gingrich’s conversion is legitimate.

They couldn’t possibly know, of course, but as a pop psych rag, one coudn’t really expect more of them.
 
We can take Newt’s comments the same way we take his other statements from his past:

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A very long list of dumb and awful things Newt Gingrich has said and done

Still, he may have a prominent role in the Trump administration.
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Some of more notable ones:
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Sound familiar?

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This should be appalling to women.

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As if an all Republican Legislature could have stopped this mother.

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Glass is always half empty for him i guess

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sound familiar?

Must read is the First 1995 entry about his book ( Gingrich calls the book “PG-13.”)

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Quite an interesting read.
 
More anti-Catholicism . . .
The penal age: 1645-1763

Evidence of this anti-Catholic attitude can be found in laws passed by colonial legislatures, sermons preached by colonial ministers, and various books and pamphlets published in the colonies or imported from England. (8)

By his dress, manner and spirit, the Puritan was an antithesis of the Catholic gentleman of the age

For example, even though no Catholic was known to have lived in Massachusetts Bay in the first 20 years or more of the colony’s life, this did not deter the Puritan government from enacting an anti-priest law in May of 1647, which threatened with death “all and every Jesuit, seminary priest, missionary or other spiritual or ecclesiastical person made or ordained by any authority, power or jurisdiction, derived, challenged or pretended, from the Pope or See of Rome.” (9)

When Georgia, the thirteenth colony, was brought into being in 1732 by a charter granted by King George II, its guarantee of religious freedom followed the fixed pattern: full religious freedom was promised to all future settlers of the colony “except papists,” that is Catholics. (10)

Even Rhode Island, famous for its supposed policy of religious toleration, inserted an anti-Catholic statute imposing civil restrictions on Catholics in the colony’s first published code of laws in 1719. Not until 1783 was the act revoked. (11)

To have an idea of how this prejudice against Roman Catholics was impressed even among the young, consider these “John Rogers Verses” from the New England Primer: “Abhor that arrant whore of Rome and all her blasphemies; Drink not of her cursed cup; Obey not her decrees.” This age of penal restriction against Catholics in the colonies lasted until after the American Revolution.

Someone recalling a lesson from his Catholic history classes might pose the objection: But what about the exceptions to this rule, that is, the three colonial states of Maryland, New York, and Pennsylvania, where tolerance for Catholics existed in the colonial period? Once again, this impression comes from a very optimistic and liberal writing of History rather than the concrete reality. . . .
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Even where Catholicism was “legal” there was still rampant anti-Catholicism.
Catholicism in Maryland

The “Maryland Experiment” began when Charles I issued a generous charter to a prominent Catholic convert from Anglicanism, Lord Cecil Calvert, for the American colony of Maryland. In the new colony, religious tolerance for all so-called Christians was preserved by Calvert until 1654. In that year, Puritans from Virginia succeeded in overthrowing Calvert’s rule, although Calvert regained control four years later. The last major political uprising took place in 1689, when the “Glorious Revolution” of William and Mary ignited a new anti-Catholic revolt in Maryland, and the rule of the next Lord Baltimore, Charles Calvert, was overthrown.

After the government of Lord Charles Calvert was overthrown in 1689, strong anti-Catholic politics were installed

Therefore, in 1692 Maryland’s famous Religious Toleration Act officially ended, and the Maryland Assembly established the so-called Church of England as the official State religion supported by tax levies. Restrictions were imposed on Catholics for public worship, and priests could be prosecuted for saying Mass. Although Catholics generally maintained their social status, they were denied the right to vote or otherwise participate in the government of the colony their ancestors had founded. (12) This barebones history is the real story of the famous religious liberty of colonial Maryland.

The Religious Toleration Law of 1649 establishing toleration for all religions in early Maryland has generally been interpreted as resulting from the fact that Cecil Calvert was a Roman Catholic. Catholic American histories commonly presented the foundation of Maryland as motivated by Calvert’s burning desire to establish a haven for persecuted English Catholics. On the other side are Protestant interpretations that present Calvert as a bold opportunist driven by the basest pecuniary motives. (13)

More recent works have provided a much more coherent analysis of the psychology behind the religious toleration that Calvert granted. That is, Calvert was only following a long-standing trend of English Catholics, who tended to ask only for freedom to worship privately as they pleased and to be as inoffensive to Protestants as possible.

A directive of the first Lord Proprietor in 1633 stipulated, for example, that Catholics should “suffer no scandal nor offence” to be given any of the Protestants, that they practice all acts of the Roman Catholic Religion as privately as possible, and that they remain silent during public discourses about Religion. (15) In fact, in the early years of the Maryland colony the only prosecutions for religious offenses involved Catholics who had interfered with Protestants concerning their religion. . . .
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You had your shots at Gingrich earlier (and now again).

I think it is time for you to deal with what he had to say. Especially about Kamala’s anti-Catholicism.
 
Sure one issue at at time:
She is openly anti-Catholic in confirming federal judges.
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most explicit example of Sen. Harris’s anti-Catholic bigotry was her treatment of now-US District Court Judge Brian Buescher during his confirmation hearings.”

The senators do not claim that nominee Brian Buescher is unfit to serve on the bench because he is Roman Catholic. Their concern is whether his membership in the Knights of Columbus may affect his ability to judge impartially.

Roman Catholicism is a religion. There is no religion called Knights of Columbus, which is in fact an organization that takes political positions that should be of concern to the Senate.

The did not use the litmus test of religion. They were very careful to not use the word Catholic or any form of the word. They did use the litmus test of Men’s club that he belonged to that is donating money to

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Clearly, Hirono and Harris were getting at the issue of whether Buescher would vote in accordance with the public positions of the Knights of Columbus. That is very much a political question, not exclusively a religious one.

By accusing the senators of “scoring political points,” Rocklin dismisses the risks of confirming jurists who hope to reverse constitutional rights to fit their own narrow religious convictions. I do not want Buescher guarding my hen house, thank you.
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The context rendered was: Are you going to loyal to the Bench or are you going to be loyal to the KOC?
 
Senator Hirono asked the more direct question.
“If confirmed, do you intend to end your membership with this organization to avoid any appearance of bias?” asked Hirono. The Hawaiian senator was referring to the organization’s prior support of California’s Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. She also asked him if he would recuse himself “from all cases in which the Knights of Columbus has taken a position.”
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Buescher told Hirono that the Knights of Columbus “is a Roman Catholic service organization with approximately 2 million members worldwide” and did not influence their political positions at all. Furthermore, he said, “the Knights of Columbus does not have the authority to take personal political positions on behalf of all of its members.”
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Harris asked similar questions, pointing out that the leader of the Knights called abortion “a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.” Buescher has taken an anti-abortion stance in the past but said that he was 18 when he joined the organization and was unaware of its views on abortion at the time.
He assured Harris that he would “faithfully apply all United States Supreme Court and 8th Circuit Court of Appeals precedents” on gay marriage and abortion.
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While running as a candidate in the Republican primary election for Nebraska attorney general in 2014, Buescher described himself as “avidly pro-life” and said that his anti-abortion stance was part of his “moral fabric.”
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KOC went from being a religious organization to a political action committee in all but name when they donated 1 Million to proposition 8. And 250K to a marriage organization.
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Cathoholic said:
You had your shots at Gingrich earlier (and now again).

I think it is time for you to deal with what he had to say. Especially about Kamala’s anti-Catholicism.
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Gingrich: She is openly anti-Catholic in confirming federal judges .
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He says judges. Yet doing a thorough search I am finding a tough time finding anything on another nominee. All sources cite Buescher.

I even looked at the Kavanaugh hearing. Nothing anti-Catholic there.

So help me out here. Give me another example of her being openly anti-Catholic to another nominee.
 
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