The modern Democratic Party has had a long standing problem with religious Christians, especially Catholics and evangelicals. Most of the problem stems from the issue of abortion, which religious people view as the taking of human life and liberal Democrats believe is a woman’s right to sovereignty over her own body. So it should not be as any great surprise that one of the latest WikiLeaks revelations show Jennifer Palmieri, now the Clinton campaign's director of communications, mocking Catholics and evangelicals.

The news sparked the usual social media firestorm and called for Ms. Palmieri’s resignation.

The kerfuffle is just the latest outrage caused by Julian Assange, the purveyor of WikiLeaks now hiding out in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, a fugitive from Swedish justice on a rape charge. Assange has been an enemy of Hillary Clinton ever since it was revealed that she wondered whether the Australian-born dispenser of secrets could be taken out with a drone or not.

Democratic politicians have sometimes gotten around their problems with believing Christians by pretending to be religious themselves. Bill Clinton, usually when he was being rocked by a “bimbo eruption,” would often be photographed in front of a Baptist church with a bible under his arm talking with the local minister. Hillary Clinton often touts what she claims is her Methodist faith.

Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary’s running mate, is a religious Catholic and is personally opposed to abortion, but shrinks from advocating the abolition of the practice.

The leaked emails provide a window into the real attitudes of Democratic officials and politicians toward religion, which are often at variance to those of their constituents.

The problem is that while they like authoritarianism that is often a quality of churches, they would prefer that authority be invested in them and not the pope or some evangelical leader.

Polizette notes that another email features Clinton campaign manager John Podesta mulling with Sandy Newman, president and founder of the progressive nonprofit Voices for Progress, the idea of a “Catholic Spring.” The idea was the liberal Catholics would rise and overthrow the current regime that teaches against abortion and same-sex marriage and form a new church that would be with the program.

Of course, that is not how churches, especially the Roman Catholic Church, works.