JOHN MCCAIN 2008 ANNOUNCES NATIONAL CATHOLICS FOR MCCAIN LEADERSHIP TEAM
ARLINGTON, VA — A coalition of Catholic leaders from across America today announced their support for John McCain for president. U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) and former Governor Frank Keating (R-OK) will serve as the National Co-Chairs of Catholics for McCain.
“As Catholics, we are proud to announce our support for John McCain, a genuine American hero with a conservative record who has what it takes to lead this country,” said U.S. Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), National Co-Chair of Catholics for McCain.
Former Governor Frank Keating (R-OK), also National Co-Chair of Catholics for McCain said, “John McCain can uniquely appeal to Catholics with his strong, 24-year pro-life record, his stand for traditional values and school choice, his proven leadership in defending America, and his demonstrated ability to appeal to independent-minded voters. These are exactly the type of qualities that Catholic voters&nbs p;will be looking for in 2008.”
In a joint statement, Governor Keating and Senator Brownback added: “In this election, with so much at stake, we need a leader who will help transform history to extend and uphold the rights and dignity of each and every child of God. John McCain is that leader.”
John McCain expressed his appreciation and stated: “I am very pleased to have the support of this distinguished coalition of Catholic leaders. I am proud to stand side-by-side with Catholics on many of the most critical issues of our day: defending the sanctity of human life, upholding traditional marriage, expanding educational choice, and defending America from the threats that we face around the globe. I have fought my entire life to protect religious freedom and human rights around the world. I look forward to working with these Catholic leaders in the weeks and months ahead as we take our shared values to the White House.”
Catholics for McCain will play an active role in educating and communicating with fellow Catholics about why John McCain is the best candidate to successfully promote Catholic values in the upcoming election.
CATHOLICS FOR MCCAIN NATIONAL LEADERSHIP TEAM
Catholics For McCain National Co-Chairmen
Senator Sam Brownback, Kansas
Governor Frank Keating, former Governor of Oklahoma
Catholics For McCain National Leadership Committee
Former U.S. Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH)
Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)
Hon. Alexander Haig, Former Secretary of State
Congressman Ray LaHood (R-IL)
Congressman Dan Lungren (R-CA)
Catholics For McCain National Steering Committee
Andresen Blom of Hawaii, former Executive Director, Hawaii Right to Life
Professor Gerard Bradley of Indiana, University of Notre Dame Law School
Mary Brunette Cannon of Virginia, former Executive Director, the Bi oethics Project
Denis Coleman of Florida, former Chairman of Covenant House and Current Chairman of InsideCatholic.com
Martin Dannenfelser of Virginia, former Vice-President for Govt. Affairs, Family Research Council
Robert Reilly of Virginia, Former Director, Voice of America
Warren Sweeney of New Jersey, former Executive Director, National Right to Life Committee
Eugene J. Zurlo of South Carolina, Chairman of the Zurlo Investment Trust and Former President of the Catholic Radio Association
Catholics For McCain State Chairmen
Iowa: Dana Phillips, Former Catholics for Brownback Co-Chairman and Brownback for President Marion County Chairman
New Hampshire: Hon. Maureen Mooney, NH State Representative (R-Merrimack) and former state director of Catholics for Bush/Cheney 2004
Michigan: Chuck Yob, Republican National Committeeman for the State of Michigan
South Carolina: Jim Corbett, Esq., Former State Director, Brownback for President
Florida: Laurence Alvarado, Managing Director of Bearing Point and Contributor to InsideCatholic.com
Catholic Students For McCain National Chairman
Billy Valentine of Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, former National Chairman of Students for Brownback
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Jeffrey Sewell
schotlinepress.wordpress.com 
God Bless Senators McCain and Brownback for their commitment to life. This long-time McCain supporter is glad to see Mssrs. Gillespie and Valentine on board.
Catholics for McCain should stand up to who McCain embraces:
February 28, 2008
McCAIN EMBRACES BIGOT
Yesterday, Senator John McCain said he was “very honored by Pastor John Hagee’s endorsement.” The Republican presidential hopeful also called Hagee “the staunchest leader of our Christian evangelical movement,” citing the minister’s pro-Israel stance.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue addressed this today:
“There are plenty of staunch evangelical leaders who are pro-Israel, but are not anti-Catholic. John Hagee is not one of them. Indeed, for the past few decades, he has waged an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church. For example, he likes calling it ‘The Great Whore,’ an ‘apostate church,’ the ‘anti-Christ,’ and a ‘false cult system.’ To hear the bigot in his own words, click here. Note: he isn’t talking about the Buddhists.
“In Hagee’s latest book, Jerusalem Countdown, he calls Hitler a Catholic who murdered Jews while the Catholic Church did nothing. ‘The sell-out of Catholicism to Hitler began not with the people but with the Vatican itself,’ he writes.
“For the record, Hitler persecuted the Catholic Church and was automatically excommunicated in 1931—two years before he assumed power—when he acted as best man at Joseph Goebbel’s Protestant wedding. Hitler even bragged about his separation from the Church. As for doing nothing about the Holocaust, Sir Martin Gilbert reminds us that Goebbels denounced Pope Pius XII for his 1942 Christmas message criticizing the Nazis (the New York Times lauded the pope for doing so in an editorial for two years in a row). Much to Hagee’s chagrin, Gilbert also says that Pius XII saved three quarters of the Jews in Rome , and that more Jews were saved proportionately in Catholic countries than Protestant countries. Indeed, Israeli diplomat Pinchas Lapide credited the Catholic Church with saving 860,000 Jews. No religion can match that.
“Senator Obama has repudiated the endorsement of Louis Farrakhan, another bigot. McCain should follow suit and retract his embrace of Hagee.”
Kiera M. McCaffrey
Director of Communications
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights
450 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10123
212-371-3191
212-371-3394 (fax)
how do I join RCs for McC?
So, McCain is on his second marriage; is it ok then to be divorced? What about the sanctity of marriage? This is appaling.
Well done, I am a trad Roman Catholic, I am all for McCain, most Catholics in my circle are as well. Very glad to see the Catholics For McCain group formed.
BR
How can Biden be pro-choice and pronounce he is Catholic? I don’t get it..
A message from a conservative across the pond:
In the 1992 general elections we red-coat conservatives over here were in exactly the same position that you find yourself in presently over there…and yet somehow we still won.
To find out what our secret weapon was google “John major”+”soap box”+loudspeaker.