Catholic leaders to Gingrich, Santorum: Stop the race-baiting
theGRIO REPORT - A group of more than 40 Catholic leaders fired off a letter to the two leading Catholic contenders for the Republican presidential nomination Friday, urging them to stop 'perpetuating ugly stereotypes'...
A group of more than 40 Catholic leaders fired off a letter to the two leading Catholic contenders for the Republican presidential nomination Friday, urging them to stop “perpetuating ugly stereotypes.”
The open letter, released on Friday, was directed at Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, both Catholic, and both of whom have made controversial statements with a racial edge.
The group of mostly progressive Catholic leaders and theologians urged Gingrich to stop calling President Barack Obama the “food stamp president,” and chided Santorum for saying in Iowa that he didn’t want to “make black people’s lives better with other people’s money.”
The leaders said promoting those kinds of “racist caricatures is irresponsible, immoral and unworthy of political leaders.”
Read more at Ethics Daily.
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