Keeping Catholics out of the public square -- first Kamala, now the Washington Nationals

 by Monica Showalter

Back in 2018, then-Sen. Kamala Harris made herself a 'historic first' by attempting to bring back 'know-nothingism' to exclude Catholics from public office to the Senate confirmation process. Her illegal questioning of at least three Catholic judicial nominees who belonged to the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic men's service group, had been presented by her as 'proof; of their unfitness for public office, owing to their loyalty to basic Catholic teachings. It was so egregious in its bigotry (see the line of questioning here), that a Senate resolution had to be passed to shut down her version of 'progress.'

 

According to EWTN:

[Sen. Ben] Sasse introduced a resolution in 2019 that states that disqualifying a nominee for federal office on the basis of his Catholic belief or membership in the Knights of Columbus violates the United States Constitution. The resolution passed by unanimous consent.

The resolution was referencing the constitutional prohibition of imposing a “religious test” as a qualification for public office in Article VI, Section 3.

 

Apparently, a lot of them do it, so it wasn't a socially unacceptable thing for the 'Community Relations' director of the Washington Nationals baseball team to tell undercover investigative journalist James O'Keefe that "we don't use" Washington Nationals pitcher Trevor Williams in their social media ad work for the team in its representations.

 

 

Now the Washington Nationals has a big public relations problem on its hands: A 'community relations' director who's big on exclusion and bigotry, all ready to send the team's leadership straight into court for violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting discrimination based on religion.

 

It was a textbook case of retaliatory behavior, given Williams's impressive contributions to his team and the reasonable expectation of seeing him featured and fame-ified in his teams social media ads.

 

He was, instead, a pariah, simply for saying that his fellow team, the Dodgers, who 'honored' a leftist gay Catholicism-mocking group called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence a couple years ago, as offensive to his Catholic faith. The San Francisco-based group holds an annual 'hunky Jesus contest and on at least one occasion featured a man cosplaying a crucified 'Jesus' figure pole-dancing on a cross at a public event.

 

Williams's remark was not unreasonable, given that he is a practicing Catholic, but the penalty to Williams most certainly was. He'd apparently been blackballed and nobody ever told him why. And fans were involved, too, in his bigoted operation -- he said he googled them for information about their beliefs. He liked to know those kinds of things.

 

But it didn't stop the perpetrators from boasting about it to undercover O'Keefe.

 

Which created a lot of problems for them, given the potential size of the civil rights lawsuits and the likelihood of losing at least some of their fan base, all because of the smarmy official's power-tripping retaliation.

 

Williams has since quietly reaffirmed his faith and focused on playing ball. Hudson, the bigoted community relations director, has since given the boot.

 

And the team's business manager gave an abject and sincere apology, saying the team did not have it in for Catholic players.

 

The firing was the right thing to do, even if the president of baseball operations didn't say a thing.

As for Hudson, he can go join that Bud Light woman who had nothing but contempt for her customers, and they can all be prejudiced together. Perhaps they can form the new corps of Team Kamala in 2028. 

And O'Keefe can put another feather in his cap for this. Had that video not been created, Hudson would continue on with his exclusions and nobody would have ever known.

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