Catholics want top Hillary Clinton aide Jennifer Palmieri fired
over a WikiLeaks email chain in which she mocked the religion.
The 2011 email exchange included Palmieri, now Clinton's
communication director, campaign manager John Podesta, and John Halpin, from
the liberal policy group Center for American Progress, reported Fox News Insider.
In the exchange, Halpin criticized 21st Century Fox Chairman
Rupert Murdoch, and NewsCorp Chairman Robert Thomson for raising their children
Catholic, while charging that some in the church were involved in an
"amazing bastardization of the faith."
"They must be attracted to the systemic thought and severely
backward gender relations," Halpin wrote, per FNI. While Podesta, who is
Catholic, did not directly respond, Palmieri did.
"I imagine they think it the is the most socially acceptable,
politically conservative religion – their rich friends wouldn't understand if
they became evangelicals," Palmieri wrote, said FNI.
Brian Burch, president of the conservative group CatholicVote.org, on Wednesday
called for Palmieri to resign or be fired over the remarks .
"And there's no evidence that Clinton campaign chairman John
Podesta ever pushed back at these smears against Catholicism," said Burch.
"Everyone has a unique faith journey, and it's just insulting to make
blanket statements maligning people's motives for converting to another faith
tradition. Had Palmieri spoken this way about other groups she would be
dismissed. Palmieri must resign immediately or be fired."
SOURCE: NEWSMAX
SOURCE: NEWSMAX
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