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DNC Spokesman Defends Vicious Anti-Catholic Link

A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has defended the
DNC's link with a notoriously anti-Catholic organization on the grounds
that there is nothing anti-Catholic about the group which is heavily
financed by the abortion industry and whose leader has vowed to
"overthrow" the Roman Catholic Church.
According to the Catholic League, one Bill Buck, a DNC spokesman is now
defending the link between the DNC and a notoriously anti-Catholic
group, Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC). In an interview Buck gave
National Catholic Register, a weekly Catholic newspaper, Buck said there
was nothing anti-Catholic about listing CFFC on the DNC's website. 
As a result of Buck's support for the DNC-CFFC link, the Catholic League
(which has an ad against the DNC in this week's National Catholic
Register) is now escalating its campaign. Today, Catholic League
president William Donohue is sending every member of Congress a copy of
an article he has written on CFFC that conclusively demonstrates its
anti-Catholic agenda. Previously, Donohue wrote only to Democrats asking
for their help, but since only Rep. Tom Lantos and Rep. Tim Roemer
responded, he decided to blanket the Republicans as well. 
Said Donahue: "Bill Buck says that after perusing the website of
Catholics for a Free Choice, he found 'that [it] is not their stated
policy' to be anti-Catholic. Wonderful. Now if he checks out the website
of the Ku Klux Klan, he will discover that the Klan not only does not
list racism as its stated policy - it literally takes umbrage at those
who accuse it of bigotry and hatred. From Buck's school of thought, this
would seem to settle the issue: the KKK is not racist.
"Frances Kissling, the director of CFFC, declared war on the Catholic
Church in 1991 when she admitted that it was her goal to 'overthrow' the
Church. It is this animus - anti-Catholicism - that drives her. And it
is her cause that drives the Catholic League to get the DNC to sever its
link with her. Thanks to Buck, our campaign has now escalated."