{"id":2738,"date":"2008-04-01T13:28:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2008\/04\/01\/help-wanted\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T13:28:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:28:56","slug":"help-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2008\/04\/help-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">In a sign of the intensifying battle<br \/>\nfor Catholic voters between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton,<br \/>\nparticularly ahead of next month\ufffds Pennsylvania primary, both<br \/>\ncandidates have brought Catholic outreach coordinators aboard their<br \/>\ncampaigns, God-o-Meter has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, Obama\ufffds campaign hired Mark Linton, a legislative aide<br \/>\nworking on poverty and other social policy issues in Obama\ufffds Senate<br \/>\noffice, as its National Catholic Outreach Coordinator. Linton, who had<br \/>\npreviously worked for Catholic Relief Services, is currently focused<br \/>\nalmost exclusively on Pennsylvania, where roughly one in three<br \/>\nDemocratic voters are expected to be Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>\ufffdMark\ufffds job is to help get Senator Obama\ufffds message on health care, the<br \/>\nwar, and helping American families out to the Catholic grassroots,\ufffd<br \/>\nsaid Joshua DuBois, Obama\ufffds National Director of Religious Affairs, in<br \/>\nan interview Monday, describing Linton\ufffds role. \ufffdObama is just beginning<br \/>\nto introduce himself to Catholics around the country.\ufffd<\/p>\n<p>The Obama campaign would not grant a request to interview Linton,<br \/>\nsaying he\ufffds not an official spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinton camp, meanwhile, has brought aboard Eric McFadden, the<br \/>\nformer field director for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a<br \/>\nprogressive Washington-based Catholic group founded after the 2004<br \/>\nelection to combat conservative Catholic advocacy organizations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">More over at <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2008\/03\/democratic-battle-for-catholic.html\"\ntarget=\"_blank\">beliefnet&#8217;s God-o-Meter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">This does make me wonder how a campaign<br \/>\nadvertises for a Catholic outreach coordinator?<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">Help wanted a Catholic outreach<br \/>\ncoordinator to help campaign for a candidate that supports the murder<br \/>\nof innocents in the womb, supports experimenting on human embryos and<br \/>\nkilling them afterwards, supports cloning of humans for research and<br \/>\nkilling them afterwards, supports killing the sick and the elderly if<br \/>\nthey want to die or just have an evil family member representing them,<br \/>\nplus support other Catholic values like homosexual marriage.<br \/>\n&nbsp;Must be able to inform fellow Catholics that voting<br \/>\nfor a candidate totally in favor of intrinsic evils is acceptable.<br \/>\n&nbsp;That somehow supporting so many moral evils has no bearing on<br \/>\ntheir on their character and their decisions. &nbsp;After<br \/>\nall a candidate that supports sucking the brains out of children as<br \/>\nthey are being born obviously is going to make ethical decisions in<br \/>\ntheir presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Must be able to hold the tension of working for a campaign that will<br \/>\nattack the other Democratic candidate as not being pro-choice enough<br \/>\nwhile at the same time reaching out to Catholics telling them it<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t matter if their pro-choice in the first place since political<br \/>\ndecision will not bring a culture of life an any way whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Communication skills are a must in explaining why the candidates<br \/>\nfrequent and fervent support of abortion actually means that they are working<br \/>\non reducing the same.<\/p>\n<p>An advance degree in moral relativism is required along with good<br \/>\nmemory skills for repeating phrases such as &#8220;pro-choice is not<br \/>\npro-abortion&#8221; and other gems.<\/p>\n<p>Moral schizophrenia while not required is a bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a sign of the intensifying battle for Catholic voters between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, particularly ahead of next month\ufffds Pennsylvania primary, both candidates have brought Catholic outreach coordinators&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}