Conservative Catholics Want an Obama Faith Council Member Fired

Jeebus wept. I guess it's to be expected from a group that touts Bill Donahue and the freaks behind FRC and MRC as members. Poor defenseless Catholics...

Conservative Roman Catholic activists have launched a campaign to remove a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, alleging that he's a "virulent anti-Catholic bigot."

The groups say that Harry Knox, director of the religion and faith program at the Human Rights Campaign—the nation's largest gay rights group—has a paper trail of anti-Catholic statements.

The activists, including the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, the Family Research Council's Chuck Donovan, and the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell, hosted a conference call this morning and released a letter to President Obama demanding that Knox be booted. (House Minority Leader John Boehner was among the signers.)

Gilgoff has the particulars on what this group considers anti-Catholic as opposed to legitimate criticism, but here's a typical example-

Knox told CNSNews.com that he "absolutely" stands by his criticism of the pope. "The Pope needs to start telling the truth about condom use," Knox said on Monday, Apr. 6. "We are eager to help him do that. Until he [Pope Benedict] is willing to do that and able, he's doing a great deal more harm than good - not just in Africa but around the world. It is endangering people's lives."

Hmmm, truth vs fairy tale. Hard to pick.