Skip to main content

Christian Leaders Blast Clinton Campaign's 'Christophobic' Rhetoric

CBN

Share This article

A coalition of Christian leaders are speaking out after WikiLeaks exposed top Clinton campaign officials berating Catholics and evangelicals over email. 

"As Christian leaders, Catholic and evangelical, we collectively express our outrage at the demeaning and troubling rhetoric use by those within Secretary Clinton's campaign," more than 70 Christian leaders said in a signed statment.

The "troubling rhetoric" they're referring to is the latest email controversy from WikiLeaks. 

Reports on the leaked emails include one between Palmieri and John Halpin, a fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress. Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, a Catholic, is also in the 2011 email chain but does not comment. All three worked for the Center for American Progress at the time.

Halpin writes to Palmieri about a New Yorker article chronicling Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch's decision to raise his children in the Catholic faith.

"It's an amazing bastardization of the faith," he says. "They must be attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian democracy."

Palmieri responded that politically conservative Catholics "think (Roman Catholicism) is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals."

The coalition says the comments reveal a concerning attitude a Clinton administration may have toward Christians, calling it no less than "Christophobic."

"The WikiLeaks emails reveal a contempt for all traditional Christians, and we are – Catholic and evangelical – united in our outrage and united in our call for Mrs. Clinton to immediately apologize for the Christophobic behavior of her associates."

Share This article