Catholic publisher quits Bush campaign

New York Times

Deal W. Hudson, the publisher of the conservative Roman Catholic journal Crisis and the architect of a Republican effort to court Catholic voters, said he is resigning as an adviser to the Bush campaign because of a Catholic newspaper's investigation into accusations of sexual misconduct. The accusations involve a student at a college where he once taught. ..

Hudson, a former Southern Baptist who converted to Catholicism at the age of 34, has been an influential adviser to President Bush and a close friend of White House political strategist Karl Rove since the late 1990s. Hudson first caught Rove's attention by publishing a study in Crisis in 1998 arguing that Republican candidates could make inroads among traditionally Democratic-leaning Catholic voters by focusing on regular churchgoers, a strategy that dove-tailed with Bush's emphasis on "compassionate conservatism."

Hudson signed on as an adviser to Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, and for the last four years has been a prominent participant in a weekly conference call held by the Republican National Committee with influential Catholic supporters.

ways, huh 'thugs?

That ought to keep the newspaper busy for years.

Mr Deal has lost his way. One who attempts to practice the teachings of Jesus would immediately run into irreconcilable conflicts with conservative ideology. Beyond that, Catholic "faith" becomes trivial lip service.

A person involved with the university's investigation said that a female undergraduate in one of Hudson's classes reported to the university that, after she had become drunk at a bar, Hudson made sexual advances toward her. After several weeks, she charged him with sexual harassment. The accusations were made near the end of a school year, and Hudson left academia.

Baptist

Catholic

RW arbiter of morality for all

Adulterer

Fired-in-disgrace professor

Confidante of Turd Blossom Rove

Advisor to moron

This guy just can't seem to make up his mind :shrug:

...and he creeps me out for some reason. Too much forced laughter.

... been highly critical of bishops who fail to take a hard line against dissenting Catholic lawmakers ..."
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040722-115442-4133r.htm


Maybe the bishops need to take a hard line against holier-than-thou hypocrites.

does this creepy bunch need. I'm going to change my name to chicken little.

yep. strict daddy morals!

......:eyes:

giggle

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn081904.htm

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"I told him everything about me," Poppas recalled in a four-page document she provided to Fordham administrators at the conclusion of the semester. "He knew I was a ward of the court, without parents, severely depressed, and even suicidal. I discussed with him why I had lost my faith in God, in humanity, and in myself. He was extremely attentive and genuinely concerned."

On February 15, "Fat Tuesday," Poppas again visited Hudson at his office.

"He was in high spirits, telling me of how he had searched far and wide for the best marguerite in town," Poppas wrote. Hudson would be meeting a group of NYU students at Tortilla Flats, a popular West Village bar where, according to a current review, "friendly waiters sometimes surprise you with free shots of tequila."

Would Poppas care to join him?

"I was very reluctant," wrote Poppas, who, at age 18, was still three years shy of the legal drinking age. "I knew I would be the youngest, as well as the newcomer to their frequent gatherings," she wrote. "He promised not to tell the others my age. I decided to go."
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"As we grew more and more drunk, stranger and stranger things began to occur," wrote Poppas. Hudson had his arms around two NYU students, said Poppas. "Dr. Hudson was heavily French kissing both girls, alternating from one to the other… ."

One of the NYU students, wrote Poppas, suggested "body shots" -- where "a girl places the salt on her neck, and the lime in her breasts. Then, the guy tastes the salt from the neck, takes the shot, and eats the lime from the girl's cleavage. Dr. Hudson performed a body shot with ."

The group left the bar around midnight.

Arms locked, drunk and staggering, they dispersed. Hudson and Poppas took a cab to the Metro North train station, headed, she thought, back to Fordham....More..........

We'll win this one for Kerry one way or another.

It's a doozy like the Salon Blog War Room '04 claims. Do make sure you read the editor's note too. Ah those republican family values again. Somewhere in those values they keep missing the consensual part.

Sick bastards!

Sonia
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http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn081904.htm