Newt Gingrich Attacks Fashionable Anti-Catholic Bigotry

The American Catholic ^ | Sunday, January 8, 2012 A.D | Donald R. McClarey

[narses]

I assume that only hard core political junkies like me watched the New Hampshire Republican presidential debate last night which is a shame.  All of the candidates acquitted themselves well, including Ron Paul who came across as avuncular Uncle Ron, instead of crazy Uncle Ron.  Go here for a first rate overview of the debate.  It was a debate heavy on substance and each of the candidates dealt with the questions adequately.  I think Rick Santorum, who had quite a bit more air time last night than he did in previous debates, did himself a lot of good.   However, the standout moment of the debate came when Newt Gingrich dealt with a question about gay marriage.  The question was phrased as one would expect by denizens of the mainstream press, asking the candidates how they would talk to a gay couple who wanted to get married.  When Gingrich’s turn came, he was having none of it.

“I just want to raise the point about the news media bias,” Gingrich said. “You don’t hear the opposite question asked.

“Should the Catholic church be forced to close its adoption services in Massachusetts because it won’t accept gay couples, which is exactly what the state has done? Should the Catholic church be driven out of providing charitable services in the District of Columbia because it won’t give in to secular bigotry? Should the Catholic church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration?” Mr. Gingrich asked.

Mr. Gingrich finished his comments by criticizing the media for not covering “anti-Christian bigotry.”

“The bigotry question goes both ways and there’s a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side, and none of it gets covered by the news media,” said Mr. Gingrich.

Mr. Gingrich’s remarks drew a loud round of applause from the audience at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Mitt Romney and Rick Perry chimed in, echoing Gingrich’s attack on the Obama discrimination against the Catholic Church,  Go here to see a video of Newt’s statement.  Some people have doubted the authenticity of the conversion of Gingrich to the Faith.  I think it is clear that his statement came from his heart, and there is no nobler calling for any Catholic in public life than to speak out in defense of the Church when the Bride of Christ is under bigoted assault.  Bravo to Newt Gingrich!

[narses]

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[Yorlik803]

Thats encouraging. Someone defending Catholics...and he is running for office....
Newt just went up a few points in my book.

[uncbob]

Too many Catholics and Christians asked for it by yanking the democrat lever over the years

They are going to wake up to reality too late once the Fascist dictatorship is entrenched

[narses]

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[narses]

America is waking up.

[Colofornian]

Narses, you could have at least updated this so-called "anti-Catholic bigotry" post with the latest in exit polls in your comments.

ALL: If you go to EXIT POLLS: South Carolina Republicans, what will you find there?

You'll see that...
...almost 2/3rds of Evangelicals/Born-Agains (65%) voted for two Catholic candidates (Santorum & Gingrich).
...Of the Protestants, 59% voted for the two Catholic candidates.

By comparison, do you want to know what percentage of South Carolina Catholics voted for those two Catholic candidates? 52%

No, it's not the in-and-of-itself "bigotry" by some Catholics who like to ignorantly accuse Protestants/Evangelicals of "anti-Catholic bigotry," that we need to worry about...as the South Carolina exit-poll data shows...

Nope...it's the reality that at least 29% of Catholics in South Carolina voted for Romney...and that the Catholic vote for Santorum and Gingrich in South Carolina was SIGNIFICANTLY less than the Evangelical (& even overall Protestant) vote for those two.

ALL: Now I invite other posters to slam South Carolina Catholics for showing the world how...(fill-in-the-blank) they were for the above showing Saturday!

[narses]

[Mach9]

Unfortunately, South Carolina Catholics aren’t alone. We’ve been just about 5 years behind the PC code since Vatican II. Irish Catholics, of which I’m one, more than most. A disgrace.

[ansel12]

Catholics are sometimes the bad guys to the media and Hollywood, but they are often the good guys in both, our second largest church, the Southern Baptists, are never the good guy, no Hollywood for them, and no interest from the news shows and news media.

The media and the left truly hate Evangelicals as the Christians that are too hard nosed, too unyielding, too conservative, and too overwhelmingly Republican to be anything other than knuckle dragging, old fashioned Americans from the dark ages before the enlightened 1960s.

[ansel12]

Conservative politics and electoral victories bores you?

[Cyman]

“Too many Catholics and Christians asked for it by yanking the democrat lever over the years”

Bullseye, uncbob!

[Cicero]

Very good. I hope he keeps it up. A moral compass is an important foundation for a leader to build on, and he was somewhat lacking—or confused—in some of his earlier dealings. He has the drive and the force, as long as he keeps himself pointed in the right direction.

[WPaCon]

Did you read the article?

It’s not about Protestants.

It’s about anti-Catholicism by liberals, including those in the Obama administration.

[ansel12]

Assuming everything is as it seems, Gingrich could become a huge national learning experience (or reminder) for Christian salvation and it’s ability to change a person.

Gingrich could turn out to be something very, very helpful for the Christian message and even the Republican brand, when contrasted to say a Clinton, or a JFK or the unrepentant image of the indifferent Democrat Christians.

[ansel12]

Liberals do a good job with handling Catholics evidently, because they win their support and their vote, liberals must be much more openly hostile to Evangelicals since Evangelicals are so massively anti-liberal and vote against them by 75 and 80%..

[WPaCon]

What Protestants do and how they are treated by liberals is irrelevant to the fact that there are many anti-Catholic liberals.

The fact that many Catholics are dumb, are uninformed, are misinformed, ignore church teaching, or can accurately be described as some combination of those does not negate that fact.

[ansel12]

Being a liberal voting block indicates that Catholics find a comfortable home with the left, and they evidently make up a large share of the left, the left evidently is not so hard on Catholics that it drives them away, is what I am saying.

[WPaCon]

The left is often anti-Catholic. Some Catholics are just not bothered by that. My previous post gave some reasons. “The fact that many Catholics are dumb, are uninformed, are misinformed, ignore church teaching, or can accurately be described as some combination of those” is why they still vote Democrat in spite of the anti-Catholicism.

If you would like more Catholics to be conservative, it doesn’t help when you overstate how liberal they are.

[ansel12]

The left really, really, really hate Evangelicals, they are ALWAYS anti-Evangelical, and Southern Baptist ministers or any religious figure without a collar ever gets to be the good guy in the movies, or the troubled detectives religious adviser, or confidant, or the hero against the evil monster from Satans realm.