{"id":5256,"date":"2017-09-08T13:52:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/dianne-feinstein-and-the-anti-catholic-bigots\/"},"modified":"2017-09-08T13:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T13:52:28","slug":"dianne-feinstein-and-the-anti-catholic-bigots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/dianne-feinstein-and-the-anti-catholic-bigots\/","title":{"rendered":"Dianne Feinstein and the Anti-Catholic Bigots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.org\/dianne-feinstein-and-the-anti-catholic-bigots\/\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">George Neumayr<\/span><\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"drop-caps\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">It came out, thanks to the WikiLeaks disclosures during the 2016 campaign, that Hillary Clinton\u2019s aides were trading nasty notes about Catholics, calling them \u201cseverely backwards.\u201d The Dems had long been the party of anti-Catholic bigotry and the exposed emails only confirmed that reputation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">American bishops appointed by Pope Francis didn\u2019t make a peep about Hillary\u2019s anti-Catholic bigotry for the simple reason that they share it. They, too, see believing Catholics as \u201cseverely backwards.\u201d Many of the Francis-appointed bishops, such as Chicago\u2019s Blas\u00e9 Cupich, were in the tank for Hillary. Patrick McGrath, the bishop of San Jose, California, used propaganda from the Hillary campaign as his crib notes, penning a ludicrous column to parishioners in which he said that Donald Trump \u201cborders on the seditious.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Cupich joined Illinois Senator Dick Durbin at Democratic dog-and-pony shows to push amnesty and socialism. Cupich\u2019s sermons were indistinguishable from Hillary\u2019s stump speeches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But even with this help, even after decades of left-wing infiltration of the Church, Hillary couldn\u2019t win the Catholic vote. Trump\u2019s gibe at the Al Smith dinner \u2014 \u201chere she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics\u201d \u2014 rang true for many Catholics in the pews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2016\/10\/what-does-abortion-have-to-do-with-religion.html\">What Does Abortion Have to Do with Religion?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Neumayr: It came out, thanks to the WikiLeaks disclosures during the 2016 campaign, that Hillary Clinton\u2019s aides were trading nasty notes about Catholics, calling them \u201cseverely backwards.\u201d The Dems had long been the party of anti-Catholic bigotry and the exposed emails only confirmed that reputation. American bishops appointed by Pope Francis didn\u2019t make a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/08\/dianne-feinstein-and-the-anti-catholic-bigots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dianne Feinstein and the Anti-Catholic Bigots&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}