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New York Times' Selective Outrage
Contact: Jeff Field, Director of Communications, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, 212-371-3191, cl@catholicleague.org
 
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2012 /Standard Newswire/ -- Bill Donohue comments on today's editorial in the New York Times taking a New York City Catholic priest to task:
 
A priest puts a letter written by six former U.S. ambassadors to the Vatican in a church bulletin supporting Romney and the alarms go off. But it was not the parishioners who sounded the alarm: it was a coalition of George Soros-funded groups and the New York Times. The Soros-funded groups (they are behind a petition drive) are Catholics United, Faith in Public Life, and Faithful America. Here are a few local examples of real church and state violations that the Times showed no interest in addressing: 
 
  • In 2000, Al Gore was endorsed by Rev. Floyd Flake in his church
     
  • In 2000, Rick Lazio and Hillary Clinton campaigned in synagogues in the Hamptons
     
  • In 2000, the Black Ministers Council of NJ endorsed John Corzine
     
  • In 2010, Rev. Clinton M. Miller asked his Baptist congregation to vote for Andrew Cuomo for governor (this was reported in the Times though there was no editorial)

In African American neighborhoods, both the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) churches, as well as Baptist ones, have been getting away with political endorsements for years. Indeed, in 1988 Rev. Jesse Jackson took up collections in Chicago churches. No alarms went off.

In April, President Obama called on African Americans to go "to your faith community" and organize "congregation captains" on his behalf. No alarms went off. In June, Michelle Obama told a Nashville AME congregation that there is "no better place" to talk about political issues than in church. No alarms went off.

So why did the alarms go off now? Because a Catholic priest is involved? Also, why can't white liberals call out black ministers for blatant and consistent violations? Two expressions of prejudice are operative.

Contact NYT editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal: andyr@nytimes.com


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