Politico reports:
President-elect Donald Trump said Friday that he is picking the head of a right-wing Catholic advocacy group and critic of Pope Francis to serve as ambassador to the Holy See, potentially teeing up tensions with the Vatican.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Brian Burch, head of the group Catholic Vote, “loves his Church and the United States — He will make us all proud.” Trump also praised Burch for advocating for him and encouraging Catholics to vote for him in 2024.
Catholic Vote has engaged in tactics that have prompted criticism from more progressive factions of the U.S. church. In 2020, the organization used “geofencing” to identify Catholic voters who attended Mass in swing states and target them with ads boosting Trump.
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Catholic Vote first appeared on JMG in 2015 when they launched “40 days of prayer for one man/one woman marriage.” On the 35th day of the event, the Supreme Court issued its historic Obergefell ruling.
In 2020, Burch appeared here when he announced that Catholic Vote would spend $20 million on anti-Biden attack ads. Of note, Catholic Vote opposed Trump in 2016, calling him a promiscuous womanizing loser.
In June 2022, Catholic Vote appeared here for their “Hide The Pride” campaign for its followers to check out all LGBTQ-themed books from public libraries and them hide them in their homes.
In July 2022, Burch joined a hate group coalition in declaring that the Respect For Marriage Act would legalize polygamy, incestuous marriages, child marriages, and “open marriage.”
In 2023, Burch announced a $1 million ad campaign attacking the Los Angeles Dodgers for honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team’s annual Pride Night.
Longtime JMG readers will recall Catholic Vote as the home of Thomas Peters, the vitriolic former spokesperson for the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the National Organization for Marriage [NOM].
Catholic Vote appeared here in January 2024 when one of its employees was sentenced to two years in federal prison for death threats against Human Rights Campaign staffers and a transgender Maryland state rep.
That employee had previously appeared here for a now-deleted Catholic Vote column about the Pulse Massacre titled “We Have Nothing To Apologize For.”
In August 2024, Catholic Vote launched an ad campaign claiming that Kamala Harris was responsible for the rape and murder of an Arizona girl by an “illegal alien.”
If you visit the Catholic Vote website today, you’ll find page after page of anti-LGBTQ hate, but not a peep about pedophile priests.
Trump’s previous ambassador to the Vatican was Callista Gingrich, who famously engaged in an adulterous affair with Newt Gingrich before they married.
It’s all what Jesus would want.
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