Faith Based Advisor- Anti Catholic Bigot

This is the guy, Harry Knox, that Obama has selected to run the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships is responsible for distributing federal money to religious non-profit and charitable organizations. Here are some quotes by him. To me it indicates he's anti-traditional family and an anti-Catholic bigot.

From the PBS interview broadcast on its Religion & Ethics Newsweekly show: “Responsible fatherhood offers us an immense opportunity to speak to a real need in the country.” ...

“It’ll be challenging to do that for instance in ways that are not dismissive of the tremendous gifts of single mothers; not to sort of hold a heteronormative view of fatherhood up as the only model.”

“For instance, 25 percent of gay male couples in the country are raising children – their own and other people’s.”

“So the challenge will be for all of us getting to know what fatherhood means for us, and how to talk about it in a way that is as inclusive as possible and empowering as possible.”

“One of the things I am suggesting on the council is that they look at mentoring processes that gay dads have developed to help each other be good fathers around the country.”

I'm disconcerted by the comments he made about the Pope. These comments were made in response to the Pope's statement on Aids and HIV prevention. For more on this comment http://windrosehotel.blogspot.com/2009/03/harvard-researchers-agree-with-pope.html

Knox:
“The Pope’s statement that condoms don’t help control the spread of HIV, but rather condoms increase infection rates, is hurting people in the name of Jesus.”

A bishop in Wyoming would not serve communion at Catholic Mass to a lesbian couple. Knox, on the HRC (Human Rights Campaign) Website April 6 2007 wrote: “In this holy Lenten season, it is immoral and insulting to Jesus to use the body and blood of Christ the reconciler as a weapon to silence free speech and demean the love of a committed, legally married couple.”

He said in an April 2007 interview with CNS News that the Pope is a "discredited leader because, primarily, his view on the condoms/AIDS statements. “The Pope needs to start telling the truth about condom use.” “We are eager to help him do that. Until he is willing to do that and able, he’s doing a great deal more harm than good – not just in Africa but around the world. It is endangering people’s lives.”

After being called out for these and other such statements, he makes this comment to Newsmax. "I love the Catholic Church and love my Catholic sisters and brothers very much,” he said. “I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Roman Catholic Church and for all the good that it does. I do think that we have a real disagreement about the role of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, both in the role of the church and in the role of public service."

Spinning spinning spinning. By the way, he's a Protestant and a member of a very left wing denomination, the Church of Christ. He's also a member of the Interdenominational Conference of Liberation Congregations and Ministries. Liberation Theology anyone? How anyone can combine Marxist materialism and Christianity is a mystery to me. Maximum cognitive dissonance.

He should apologize to the Pope and Catholic Church and withdraw from his position.