Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Senior Catholic official in America, generously offered to lead a prayer at the Democratic National Convention.
The Democrats declined.
They decided that they would rather have a two hour Islamic prayer ceremony instead.
Given how heavily Catholics outnumber Muslims amidst the electorate, this is, at the very least, bad optics and worse politics. But it’s so ham-handed that it suggest Democrats are doing it out of conviction rather than political calculation.
Two thoughts:
- If Obama wanted to quash those “secret Muslim” rumors, this wasn’t the way to do it.
- The constant hostility Democrats have shown to Catholics during this Administration suggests yet again that forcing Catholics to fund abortion wasn’t a side issue for ObamaCare, but in fact the central issue. Every knee must bend.
Tags: 2012 Election, abortion, Catholics, Democrats, Islam, War on Catholics
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