Catholic News Service
Anti-Catholic Harry Knox and boss
A group of twenty Catholic and conservative leaders have written a letter to President Barack Obama protesting the appointment to his faith-based advisory council of a man they say is “a virulent anti-Catholic bigot.”The letter lamented the president’s “failure to act”and called on him to remove the appointee.
The letter concerned Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships appointee Harry Knox,who had described the Knights of Columbus as an “army of oppression”for supporting California’s Proposition 8.
Noting President Obama’s claim that the Council would “bring everyone together – from both the secular and faith-based communities,”the group’s letter voiced concerns about Knox.
The letter said Knox,a former licensed Methodist minister who is a leader with the homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign (HRC),is “the hate-filled antithesis of this noble objective.”
In the past,Knox had attacked Pope Benedict and some Catholic bishops as “discredited leaders”because of their opposition to same-sex “marriage.”