Hillary Clinton a Threat to Religious Liberty?

Hillary Clinton Dr Evil Religious

Wikileaks has, in recent days, provided an unprecedented glimpse into the “real” of Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff. Among the many important revelations of the past week, there is one that religious people might find particularly alarming. It’s probably no surprise that Clinton does not agree with, or even respect conservative Christian religious belief.  What these emails reveal, however, is that she wants those beliefs to be changed (not just what the people believe, but the religious teachings themselves) — and her campaign staff took steps to try and facilitate that change. The Washington Post reports:


In a speech not long before she launched her 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton made a stunning declaration of war on religious Americans. Speaking to the 2015 Women in the World Summit, Clinton declared that “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

Religious beliefs have to be changed? This is perhaps the most radical statement against religious liberty ever uttered by someone seeking the presidency. It is also deeply revealing. Clinton believes that, as president, it is her job not to respect the views of religious conservatives but to force them to change their beliefs and bend to her radical agenda favoring taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.

This is the context in which we must read a recently released trove of emails — which, according to WikiLeaks, come from the accounts of Clinton staff — showing the rampant anti-Catholic bigotry that permeates Clinton World.

In a 2012 email that WikiLeaks says was sent to John Podesta, now chairman of the Clinton campaign, Voices for Progress president Sandy Newman writes that “there needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church” and proposed that the Clinton team “plant the seeds of the revolution” to change Catholic teaching. Podesta replies, “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this . . . Likewise Catholics United.” He adds, “I’ll discuss with Tara. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the other person to consult.”

So members of the Clinton’s inner circle created front groups to foment a “Catholic Spring” — because, as their dear leader had announced, “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

The hostility to people of faith here is simply breathtaking. Apparently when Clinton aides speak in private, their basket of “deplorables” includes faithful Catholics and evangelicals who believe in the sanctity of human life. If they had made such comments about any other group, they would be politically excommunicated.


What do you think? What is behind Clinton’s open hostility toward religion? Is it because, like every thing else she has bull-dozed in her career, that religion actually stands in the way of her ascent to power? Let us know on Facebook or in the comments below.




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