The ad campaign condemns anti-Catholic statements in emails
from the account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.
The
emails, revealed by WikiLeaks, show that in February of 2012, Podesta and Sandy
Newman – the president of Voices for Progress – discussed how to
“plant the seeds of revolution” within the Catholic Church using
progressive-created dissident “Catholic” groups, such as Catholics in Alliance
for the Common Good and Catholics United. Newman referred to the Catholic
Church as a “middle ages dictatorship.”
In
2011, another leaked email thread shows senior
fellow at the Center for American Progress John Halpin complaining to Podesta
and the Clinton campaign’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri about
conservative Catholics.
“It’s
an amazing bastardization of the faith,” Halpin said. “They must be attracted
to the systematic thought and severely backward gender relations and must be
totally unaware of Catholic democracy.”
