By Fred Lucas,CNS NEWS.com
Obama's pick is highly offensive
President Barack Obama’s controversial appointee to the White House faith-based advisory council —a professed gay Christian who has called the pope a “discredited leader” —continues to rile conservatives.
In the week since Obama named Harry Knox to the President’s Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships,the Catholic League expressed its frustration,a leading House Republican called for Obama to withdraw the appointment,and the Gingrich family – the former House speaker and his lesbian activist sister —had a public spat over the matter.
Knox comes to the administration from the Human Rights Campaign,a homosexual advocacy group. His recent comments to a San Francisco-based gay newspaper have prompted much of the concern.