Frank Donatelli, deputy chair of the Republican National Committee, spoke with Catholic journalists of the orthodox stripe today about McCain and the Catholic vote. The conference call was graciously hosted by Deal Hudson, publisher of Crisis Magazine.
“Senator McCain is very much in sympathy and compatible with Catholic voters,” began Donatelli. “He’s a cultural conservative, he believes very strongly in values. On the issue of the right to life, he is a very strong supporter of the right to life and has voted that way for 20-plus years in Congress.”…
LifeSiteNews.com asked why, when McCain appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show in May, he seemed unwilling to defend his stand against homosexual marriage.
“First off, he was kind of being a gentleman in a sense,” replied Donatelli. “You know where they’re coming from for obvious reasons and I think what he was trying to do was just not get into a long discussion on that. He tried to cut her off and say let’s not go there, we just don’t agree with that. He didn’t want the whole show to be a discussion on that one issue with somebody that had such strong views and was so outspoken on that.”
Turning to the marriage issue, Donatelli said that McCain’s position was very strongly in support of maintaining the definition of marriage, with his having worked against homosexual “marriage” initiatives both in Arizona and California. He further noted that the choice between Obama and McCain on the issue was very clear….
Read the full story by John-Henry Westen at Catholic Exchange.