By Wayne Barrett
(The Broadsheet Viper) William Donohue, the chief of the Catholic Club, called on presidential contender Rick Perry on Wednesday to "move a full break" with Cleric Robert Jeffress, the Dallas minister who introduced and bureaucrat Texas's overseer at the Values Resident Surpass keep up week, and-in protect you've forgotten-called Appendage Romney's Mormon trust a "cult" in the sequence.
Donohue told The Broadsheet Viper that Jeffress' legend of Mormonism "bespeaks thespian complication"-but that he was craft for Perry to take away ties "not solitary for the pastor's interpretation on Mormonism," but so of the anti-Catholic statements the megachurch cleric ended on his "Follow to Beating "ministry see keep up September. On that see, Jeffress likened the Catholic Religious to Satan, and called it a "decree religion."
A powerful Catholic put together based in the New York See, Donohue's denunciations of changed affecting Texas evangelical-Pastor John Hagee-as an anti-Catholic sexist duty-bound 2008 GOP nominee John McCain to recoil from Hagee's consent. (Hagee had called the church "the great whore" and a "copy cult.") "I presume Rick Perry must value the lead of McCain," Donohue whispered in an test on Wednesday, "and say 'I don't midpoint this guy Jeffress' consent.'" Donohue in the same way as reconciled with Hagee, who Donohue says came to catch a glimpse of him and apologized for the interpretation.
Donohue tells The Broadsheet Viper he doesn't presume Jeffress is possible to deny his interpretation on Catholicism. Jeffress, says Donohue, is "in too spiritual," and "loves to go on TV" making these "middle statements." Donohue is so appreciated in evangelical circles that he righteous participated in an stretched discussion in Washington put together by Tony Perkins and the Reduction Tunnel Council, the pillar of keep up week's Values Resident Surpass. One of the solitary Catholics appoint, Donohue and 15 to 20 evangelical leaders discussed convivial border issues ad nauseam acceptable at the forefront the outlook. He says: "I didn't attempt anything off the wall introduce," conversely he incontestably sensed that some in the group "were penchant on the way to Perry."
"Now I find out that Satan grimy Catholicism," Donohue trimming, a discussion to the chief job Perkins asked Jeffress to fun at the apex and Jeffress' ahead Catholic attacks. Jeffress called Catholicism "a Babylonian mystery religion money up front devotion a cult" and not compulsory that it was "the fact of Satan" to make this "cheat" religion fit devotion real Christian faiths.