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Huckabee angers some Catholics
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Dec 23, 2007 07:10pm |
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| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Monday, December 24, 2007 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Mike Huckabee risked his standing with Catholic voters on Sunday by courting his evangelical base at the church of a controversial preacher accused of disparaging Catholics: John Hagee. Hagee's Cornerstone mega-church in San Antonio was fraught with political perils for Huckabee given his efforts to woo conservative Catholics. Evangelicals number around 60 million in the country while the Catholic population has been put at close to 70 million.
The Catholic League says Hagee is virulently anti-Catholic and it is getting the word out that Huckabee is rubbing shoulders with an anti-Vatican figure. "Hagee has a history of denigrating the Catholic religion," said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, the largest Catholic civil rights group in the United States. In his recent book "Jerusalem Countdown," Hagee wrote: "Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews." |
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