President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised the Christian advocacy group’s efforts.
Raising awareness Regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’ apparent antipathy to Catholics, Catholic institutions, and Catholic moral teachings.
President Trump speaks to a packed audience at the Turning Point Believers Summit in West Palm Beach, Florida on Friday.
was suggested “The far-left ideology that Kamala espouses is truly militantly hostile to Americans of faith,” he said, and noted that Harris herself has had issues with Catholics.
“Harris has violently attacked a highly qualified judicial nominee solely for being a member of the Knights of Columbus and suggested her Catholic faith makes her unfit to serve as a federal judge,” Trump said.
Trump
Nominations Brian Buescher is set to become a U.S. District Court judge in Nebraska in 2018. During Buescher’s nomination process, Democrats raised concerns about his religious affiliation and membership in the Knights of Columbus, a large Catholic fraternal organization known for its charitable work and support for persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
Senator Kamala Harris (Democrat of California), who was a supporter of abortion at the time.
Until birth Nowadays Secured One woman who expressed full support for various abortion groups wrote to Buescher: “When you joined, did you know that the Knights of Columbus are opposed to a woman’s right to choose?”
It is unclear whether Harris knew at the time that the Catholic Church has opposed abortion since the first century and still does not officially approve of it today.
Assert “The moral evil of all abortions”
Harris too
Asked Mr. Buscher: “When you joined the Knights of Columbus, did you know they were opposed to same-sex marriage?”
Again, the reason this organization recognizes marriage as a contract between a man and a woman is
Formal education Of the Catholic Church.
“Harris’s hostility toward Catholics is not limited to her inquisition of Catholic nominees to federal courts.”
Then-Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles Chaput, blasted Harris and his companions for these and other questions, implying that Catholics like Buescher were unfit to serve as American judges.
write“The ignorance and unfairness with which these senators have described the Knights as ‘extremist’ is puzzling, unless it is part of a pattern of bigoted thinking already justified by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) in her vulgar questioning of current Judge Amy Coney Barrett in 2017 (‘The doctrine lives loudly inside you. That is a concern.’)”
Kenneth Craycraft, James J. Gardner Professor of Moral Theology, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and School of Theology
Underlined First Things magazine noted that “Harris’s hostility toward Catholics is not limited to her inquisition of Catholic candidates for federal courts, but extends to harassment of public organizations whose missions align with Catholic moral theology.”
For example, Harris
legislation He was also a co-sponsor of the Equality Act, which aimed to “compel religious individuals and organizations to engage in activities that directly violate their deeply held religious beliefs,” such as “forcing Catholic hospitals to perform sex-reassignment surgeries, to open women’s restrooms to men, and to allow girls and women to compete against boys and men in athletic events.”
“I don’t know how a Catholic can vote Democrat when the Democrats are going after Catholics just as much as I am,” Trump said Friday.
Trump also noted that a victory in November would mean an end to attacks on Christians and pro-life activists by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice and the FBI. Trump further promised to review the cases of “all political prisoners who have been unjustly victimized by the Biden-Harris Administration,” including Paulette Harlow, a 75-year-old Catholic activist in poor health who was sent to prison by the Biden-Harris Administration for peacefully protesting outside a medical clinic.
Days after the speech, Trump realized online that he wasn’t the only one accusing Harris of religious bigotry.
Ahead of President Trump’s speech, advocacy group Catholic Vote Release Millions of dollars Advertising campaigns They slammed Harris for her anti-Catholic record in key battleground states.
Brian Burch, president of the group, said: stated“Kamala Harris hates our beliefs.”
“This is not only egregious anti-religious bigotry, it is unconstitutional,” Burch said of the Buescher case. “Harris’ idea of a Catholic is one who has abandoned a core part of their faith.”
Trump
Celebrated Posting about the group’s efforts on Truth Social on Wednesday, he wrote, “Large group of Catholics launches major political campaign against crazy Kamala Harris. Finally!”
“Catholics are literally being persecuted by this crank. Just ask the Knights of Columbus,” Trump wrote. “They say she is the most anti-Catholic person to ever run for high office in the United States. This respected organization wants all Catholics to vote against Kamala, and they are 100% right.”
Catholic Vote
Responded“We are proud to expose Kamala’s vile hatred towards Catholics. To fight religious bigotry, we need a president who is not afraid to expose this hatred.”
If Harris were to choose Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate (something she now appears to be seriously considering), the Democratic nominee list would be weighed down with even more anti-Catholic elements.
In 2017, then-Attorney General Shapiro
Counted Among his opponents was the Catholic Church. Announced He told Planned Parenthood Center he is suing the Trump administration for exempting religious nonprofits from insurance coverage for contraception and other services that go against their deeply held religious beliefs.
Facing the possibility of millions of dollars in fines for non-compliance, the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns who care for indigent elderly people, ultimately Counterattacked and won.
Years later, Pennsylvania Senator Doug Mastriano (R-Pa.) mentioned the case.
Said Shapiro “has a real grudge against the Catholic Church.”
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