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Received: by 10.151.98.20 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:01:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <8dd172e0808140301o5f7cc623x92fce1bbb251f443@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:01:03 -0400 From: "John Podesta" <john.podesta@gmail.com> To: jmpalmieri@aol.com Subject: Fwd: [big campaign] Catholics Call on John McCain to Denounce Jerome Corsi's Comments on Catholics In-Reply-To: <48a337fb.8702be0a.4142.ffffaf84SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <c28de9b0808131213i5a10f3bbgf8c2ede3cb3e0f3a@mail.gmail.com> <48a337fb.8702be0a.4142.ffffaf84SMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> Delivered-To: john.podesta@gmail.com Should we get amanda to ask mary matalin for a reaction to this? She claims to be catholic and is his book agent. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Salt <jsalt@catholics-united.org> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:37:21 -0400 Subject: [big campaign] Catholics Call on John McCain to Denounce Jerome Corsi's Comments on Catholics To: bigcampaign@googlegroups.com For Immediate Release Contact: August 13, 2008 James Salt 305-978-1056 or jsalt@catholics-united.org Catholics Call on John McCain to Denounce Jerome Corsi's Comments on Catholics Corsi stated that the pope supports pedophilia and called Pope John Paul II senile Washington, DC - Catholics United today called on Senator John McCain to categorically and unequivocally denounce the bigoted and intolerant comments of author Jerome Corsi. Corsi, who recently reprised his 2004 attacks on the Democratic candidate for president with the book Obama Nation, has a history of making statements offensive to Catholics and other people of faith. Corsi has admitted that in March 2003 he posted a comment on the Free Republic website stating, "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press." In December 2002 he wrote, "So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the [sic] laywers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it." Corsi also made a number of intolerant comments aimed explicitly at the Islamic faith. The release of Corsi's book, which the author acknowledges in today's New York Times is designed to defeat Obama, marks the latest in a string of instances in which John McCain had benefited from the divisive tactics of extremists. Earlier this year McCain sought and later was forced to reject the support of controversial televangelists John Hagee and Rod Parsely. He currently faces calls to remove Deal Hudson from his Catholics for McCain National Steering Committee over allegations Hudson had an improper sexual encounter with an 18-year old student in 1994. "John McCain once claimed that 'agents of intolerance' had no place in our political system, and he pledged to run a new kind of campaign," said Chris Korzen, executive director of Catholics United and author of A Nation for All: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division. "If McCain stands to benefit from such political extremists, he has a moral responsibility to categorically condemn Corsi's hate speech as inappropriate, not just for Catholics but for the entirety of our public discourse." For more information: * Media Matters piece exposing Corsi'a authorship of intolerant comments: http://mediamatters.org/items/200408060010 * Corsi posts on Free Republic Web site under the name "jrlc": http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/855642/posts#16; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/807104/posts?q=1 <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/807104/posts?q=1&&page=51#74> &&page=51#74 ### Catholics United is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the message of justice and the common good found at the heart of the Catholic Social Tradition. This is accomplished through online advocacy and educational activities. For more information, visit <http://www.catholics-united.org> www.catholics-united.org. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "big campaign" group. To post to this group, send to bigcampaign@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to bigcampaign-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com E-mail ryan@campaigntodefendamerica.org with questions or concerns This is a list of individuals. It is not affiliated with any group or organization. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com