STUMPING FROM THE PULPIT: THE DOUBLE STANDARD
October 5, 1998
Yesterday, Senator Alfonse D’Amato gave a
highly partisan speech at Rev. Floyd Flake’s Allen AME
Church in Queens. Rev. Flake also made highly partisan remarks.
Catholic League president William Donohue took note:
"On the front page of the New York Times
there is a color photo of Senator D’Amato speaking before Rev.
Floyd Flake’s congregation. In addition to the Times, the
Daily News, New York Post and Newsday all ran
articles on this story. Yet there were no editorials condemning
this incident as a violation of church and state.
"Had Senator D’Amato, or any other candidate for political
office, made a political speech at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the
New York media would have gone ballistic. And just think what
the reaction would have been had Cardinal O’Connor done what
Rev. Flake did—promise that he would soon announce his
endorsement of either Senator D’Amato or Congressman Charles
Schumer! The civil libertarians would be marching into federal
district court today screaming church and state violations.
"The Catholic League does not regard Senator D’Amato’s or
Rev. Flake’s actions to be of grave constitutional question.
What it objects to is the two-faced, hypocritical reaction that
colors the media and the double standard practiced by civil
libertarians. If Cardinal O’Connor even voices his sentiments on
partial birth abortion, the same gang that tolerates what
happened yesterday at Allen AME Church immediately finds fault.
It is high time we had one rule for all clergymen, independent
of religion."
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