During his campaign, President Obama stated that we should judge him by the people he surrounds himself with (exact quote: “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself”). Let’s take a look at someone who’s finally been getting a little bit of attention.
Harry Knox is a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, a new committee that Obama created with an executive order, in other words, he has no one else to blame. Harry Knox is Director of the Religion and Faith Program in the Human Rights Campaign, and in that capacity, according to HRC’s website, has created a service to provide weekly “scriptural commentary to ministers and lay people interested in an ecumenical lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender perspective on the Bible.”
Just two weeks prior to his appointment by President Obama, Harry Knox accused Pope Benedict XVI of “hurting people in the name of Jesus.” Knox stated this because he disagrees with the Catholic Church’s stance on the use of contraception. He went on to say, “Jesus was about helping the marginalized and downtrodden, not harming them further.”
Believe it or not, that wasn’t the first time that Knox attacked the Catholic Church. In April of 2007 Knox stated that a bishop was unjustified in his refusing communion to a lesbian couple. Knox stated “it is insulting and immoral to use the body and blood of Christ the reconciler as a weapon to silence free speech and demean the love of a committed, legally married couple.” He went on to call the bishop’s actions an “act of spiritual and emotional violence.”
Then, during March of last year, Knox stated to The Bay Area Reporter (a weekly magazine for the San Francisco Bay Area’s LGBT community) that the Knights of Columbus “followed discredited leaders” which the Reporter stated included Pope Benedict XVI. In the same article Knox called the Knights of Columbus “foot soldiers of a discredited army of oppression.”
These are just some of the many examples where Harry Knox displayed anti-Catholic bigotry. Recently Knox was asked if he still stood by his comments that the Pope was “hurting people in the name of Jesus.” He replied, “I do.” When presented with the findings of a study done by Dr. Green, a Harvard researcher in AIDS prevention that showed the Pope was correct in stating that condom use aggravates the spread of HIV in
President Obama needs to wake up and pay attention. Catholic hospitals care for 15.6% of patients in
Knox has got to go. What he said went beyond criticism; it was a condemnation of the religious leader of a quarter of the country and over one billion people of faith worldwide.
The insulting behavior of Knox was not the first time in the Obama Administration when inappropriate events took place. Rahm Emanuel used the term “f***ing retarded” to describe those that disagreed with Obama’s proposed $3,400,000,000,000 federal budget. Van Jones needed to resign after his past actions and statements regarding 9/11 came into the light. Current advisor to the president, John Holdren, wrote about forced abortions and sterilizations to control the population.
The St. Michael Society has started a petition for the resignation of Knox that they will present to the White House and Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which is available for anyone interested to sign at www.stmichaelsociety.com.
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