The Democratic Social gathering is pushing away the spiritual vote with “anti-Christian” insurance policies as former President Donald Trump works to court docket Catholics and different Christians, Catholic League President Invoice Donohue stated.
“They’re anti-Christian, and it’s driving people out,” Donohue stated in a telephone interview of Democrats, citing comparable feedback from former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who lately endorsed Trump. “And the guys I’m talking to, it’s not even so much abortion. It’s just they feel like they don’t speak their language anymore. This whole idea of letting men compete against women in sports abuses the bathrooms, they think they’ve just gone off the deep end.”
Donohue spoke to Fox Information Digital in regards to the Trump marketing campaign launching the “Catholics for Trump” coalition, which goals to construct “a nation where the rights of every individual to practice their faith freely is protected.”
“Kamala Harris hates Catholics and everything we hold sacred. We can’t pretend otherwise. Our institutions, families, culture and belief in the sanctity of all human life are the antithesis of her vision for America. Donald Trump and JD Vance — and now RFK — are the antidote to the ruling class that has destroyed our country,” Brian Burch, president of conservative non-profit, CatholicVote, stated within the Trump marketing campaign’s press launch.
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Trump on Sunday even wished the Virgin Mary a cheerful birthday. The Catholic Church acknowledges the birthday of Jesus’ mom on Sept. 8, which falls 9 months after the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8 annually.
President Biden, who’s Catholic, dropped out of the presidential race on the finish of July. Donohue stated that Biden exiting the race possible gained’t have an effect on the Catholic vote general, past maybe benefiting Harris as a result of voters not being as accustomed to her insurance policies.
“I would suspect that in terms of Biden dropping out, it might help Harris a little bit, if only because she’s less well known. But once people find out that her views are indistinguishable from that of Biden’s, including born alive protection laws … when the baby is born as a result of a botched abortion, the Democrats – for most of them, not all, most of them –say that the doctor has no obligation to rescue the child. You can just let the child die at the table. Most Americans are opposed to that,” Donohue stated.
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Harris voted towards the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Safety Act, laws that may have penalized well being care staff who fail to assist look after infants born alive after a failed abortion, in 2020 when she served as a California senator. Harris is an ardent supporter of abortion entry general and made historical past alongside her future 2024 operating mate when she visited a Minnesota Deliberate Parenthood earlier this yr – in what was seen as the primary time a sitting U.S. vice chairman has ever visited an abortion supplier.
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Trump secured the vast majority of the Catholic vote in his profitable 2016 election cycle towards former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at 52% to Clinton’s 45%, Pew Analysis information present. In 2020, 52% of all Catholic voters forged their ballots for Biden, and 47% for Trump, in keeping with Gallup.
Donohue famous that there’s an unlimited distinction between how training Catholics vote, versus baptized Catholics who now not follow their religion, explaining that spiritual Catholics “have almost nothing in common” with secular Catholics, who extra incessantly vote for Democrats. He added that the identical is commonly true for spiritual Jews versus cultural Jews, and evangelical protestants versus mainline protestants.
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Along with the Catholics for Trump coalition, the marketing campaign launched the “Believers for Trump” coalition, which works with varied spiritual communities to finish the Biden-Harris administration’s “anti-faith agenda for good,” in keeping with its web site.
“The Democrat Party and the Harris-Biden Administration have waged war on Christianity with their support for abortion up until birth, the Department of Justice targeting and imprisoning pro-life activists, and the FBI plotting to infiltrate Catholic masses to spy on attendees,” Trump marketing campaign nationwide press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed Fox Information Digital.
“Kamala and Biden also shamefully declared the Holiest Day on the Christian Calendar as ‘Trans Visibility Day’ and allowed a transgender activist to take off their shirt and expose themselves on the White House South Lawn. President Trump will restore the Christian conservative values of faith, family, and freedom, end the Harris-Biden Administration’s discrimination against Christians, and stand up for religious freedom, as he did in his first term.”
Donohue added that the Catholic vote traditionally supported Democrats till the Nineteen Sixties.
“Everybody was a Democrat. All Catholics were Democrats. That didn’t shift until really late ‘60s, early ’70s, certainly by the time ‘72, when McGovern was running against Nixon. And people said, ‘wait a minute.’ But then Catholics felt homeless, because the Republicans never wanted the Catholics. The Republicans were always the party of abortion,” he stated.
George McGovern ran towards President Nixon as a Democrat within the 1972 presidential election and was billed because the candidate who supported “amnesty, abortion and acid,” only a yr forward of the Supreme Courtroom’s landmark Roe v. Wade determination.
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Quick-forward to present instances, the GOP has change into the pro-life social gathering. The Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, with Trump praising the choice and now campaigning on a platform the place abortion legal guidelines are left to the person states.
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“Since Dobbs, abortion has been more of a monkey on the back of Republicans. They’ve lost because some of the pro-life extremists in the Republican Party tried to go for all or nothing, but that’s a fool’s proposition. We always lose on that. You have to make exceptions, the proverbial exceptions everybody accepts. And you know, later into the term, there’s less tolerance for abortion. So you have to play off of that. So Trump was advised, I think correctly, to get the abortion issue off your back, because it’s a loser for Republicans. And just simply say, ‘Listen, the goal was to get rid of Roe v. Wade so that it’s up to the states to decide what they want to do,’” Donohue stated.
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Trump did spark the condemnation of some pro-life conservatives for the GOP’s extra muted language on abortion this election cycle, and for saying final month that Florida’s six-week abortion ban “is too short.” He has since stated that he’ll vote towards a Florida modification that may legalize abortion via the ninth month of being pregnant, and has doubled down that abortion legal guidelines and points needs to be left as much as the states to determine.
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Anti-Catholic assaults have in the meantime elevated lately, most notably after the Dobbs determination, when radicals attacked Catholic church buildings, and when stories of an anti-Catholic FBI memo that focused conventional Catholics as potential “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” made nationwide headlines. The DOJ absolved the FBI of wrongdoing earlier this yr in an Inspector Basic evaluation that discovered the company didn’t deliberately goal conventional Catholics.
“A lot of Catholics do feel alienated,” Donohue stated, whereas commending Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan for his work investigating anti-Catholic bias within the federal authorities.
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“Many of them have found a new anchor with the Republicans. And listen, the guys that I hang out with in my Irish Pub,” Donohue stated. “Every one of these guys are union guys, and many of them are retired. They’re all lifelong Democrats, and every single one of them are voting for Trump. Every single one of them are voting for Trump, because they say the Democrats have abandoned them.”
