May 21, 2010
WHAT THEY MEAN TO SAY...:
Catholic bishops leave civil rights group after Kagan endorsement (Daniel Burke, 5/20/10, Religion News Service)
The U.S. Catholic bishops withdrew from a national civil rights coalition on Wednesday (May 19) after the group advocated on behalf of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.The Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
(LCCR) was founded in 1950 by African American and Jewish leaders to press for the passage of national civil rights laws. [...]Progressive Catholics responded on Thursday by accusing the bishops of being "completely beholden to the extreme conservative wing of Catholicism."
"In recent months, (the bishops) have shown that it is more important to them that they placate the demands of a few loud conservatives than to promote civility, human rights and social justice," said Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice.
...is that the bishops are completely beholden to the tenets of the faith.
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