Obama ‘Comfortable’ with Adviser Who Made Repeated Anti-Catholic Statements, Says White House

Wednesday, June 03, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

White House (CNSNews.com) - White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com Tuesday that President Barack Obama is comfortable with the membership of his faith-based advisory council, despite calls from conservative Catholics to remove a member who has repeatedly made offensive statements about Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church.

Gibbs’ response comes nearly a month after House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Thad McCotter (R-Mich.) signed a letter, along with 20 other prominent conservative Catholics, asking Obama to remove Harry Knox, director of the faith and religion program at the homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign, from the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. (L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center, the parent organization of CNSNews.com, also signed the letter.) the rest

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