KAMALA HARRIS’S RECORD OF ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTRY In 1958, as John...

KAMALA HARRIS’S RECORD OF ANTI-CATHOLIC BIGOTRY

In 1958, as John F. Kennedy was preparing to run for president of the United States, polemicist Paul Blanshard published the second edition of his incendiary 1949 book, American Freedom and Catholic Power. This was the bible of anti-Catholicism in American public life. In it, Blanshard called for a “resistance movement” that would oppose the Catholic Church’s “antidemocratic social policies,” and attacked Catholic schools as “the most important divisive instrument in the life of American Children.” Echoing Blanshard’s bigotry, a February 1960 editorial in Christianity Today asserted that it is “perfectly rational” to oppose the nomination and election of a “Romanist” because “a Catholic presidency would be torn between two loyalties.”

From California attorney general, to U.S. senator, to possible vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris has not attempted to hide her intention to fulfill Blanshard’s program of instituting a movement against the Catholic Church, and against individuals, organizations, and institutions whose beliefs, positions, and policies are consistent with the moral theology of the Church. Together with Joe Biden—John F. Kennedy’s assimilationist heir—never have two people with such open hostility to Catholic faith and practice been so close to the two highest offices in American politics.

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