May 20, 2005
For Immediate Release
For More Information, Contact: Bryan Rudnick 561-499-3201
DEMOCRATS MUST CONDEMN MOVEON.ORG'S ANTI-CATHOLIC AD
The Rottweiler of leftist websites, MoveOn.org, has done it again. On May 17th, the George Soros-funded site (which revels in crudeness and below-the-belt attacks) posted an ad worthy of the Know Nothings and Klan.
In an effort to maintain the minority filibuster of conservative judicial nominees, MoveOn.org ran a composite picture of Pope Benedict XVI standing before the Supreme Court's chambers holding a gavel. The message reads: "God Already has a Job…. He does not need one on the Supreme Court. Protect the Supreme Court Rules."
JAACD President Don Feder commented: "Of course, the ad is misleading. The current controversy has noting to do with the rules of the Supreme Court. It's about changing the Senate's rules to prevent a minority of Senators from blocking debate and votes on the president's judicial nominees."
"What's truly shocking," Feder went on, "is MoveOn.org's naked appeal to the left's fear of and hatred for the Catholic Church. The clear implication of the ad is that Bush and Senate Republicans are trying to turn the federal courts over to the Catholic Church."
"And so, we have bigotry appealing to paranoia," Feder charged. "While the President has nominated highly qualified Catholics, many of his nominees are Protestants, as is the president himself."
"With this ad, MoveOn.Org is telling its constituency that the Catholic Church is trying to take over the Supreme Court to impose its values (ending abortion and opposing sexual license) on the nation. Is this really so different from the anti-Catholic hysteria whipped up by the Klan in the 1920s, when bigots in sheets attempted to convince Americans that the Pope was trying to take over the country. Now bigots in Gucci loafers are doing the same."
Feder noted that MoveOn.org has become a mainstay of the Democratic Party. Former Vice President Al Gore spoke at a MoveOn.org rally recently.
Said Feder: "The Democratic Party must repudiate this raw anti-Catholicism. Appeals to religious intolerance have no place in American politics. To ignore this outrage is to condone it."
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