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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Neocon who wrote (9848)	12/3/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) of 769670

It takes extensive D.C. experience to handle sensitive and important issues critical to the future of our country like this: Religious wars National Review's Kate O'Beirne takes issue with those who charge Republican House leaders with anti-Catholic bigotry for choosing a Protestant clergyman over a Catholic priest for the position of House chaplain. "The problem: It's just not true," Mrs. O'Beirne writes at the magazine's Web site (www.nationalreview.com). "Here's what really happened. The GOP leadership did indeed select a Protestant minister, Charles Wright, as the new House chaplain over a Jesuit political-science professor -- named Father [Timothy] O'Brien -- who was among the final candidates forwarded to the leadership by a bipartisan committee. "Rep. Tom Bliley, who co-chaired the search committee and is Jesuit-educated, favored Father O'Brien, but others concluded that the Marquette University political-science professor is poorly suited for the pastoral job of chaplain to the House. There are already enough political scientists on the Hill (and no one turns to them for spiritual counseling). "But there is an irony here. Father O'Brien -- who has spent the past several years in Washington running Marquette University's Les Aspin Center for Government -- made up for his lack of a pastoral background with a well-honed sense of how Washington works. He waged an effective lobbying campaign for the job that overwhelmed the chances of a Catholic priest from a Capitol Hill parish who also interviewed with the search committee. "A GOP source familiar with the selection process explains that 'a Catholic priest with pastoral experience would have been a very strong candidate for the job' -- in other words, the candidate effectively knocked out by Father O'Brien. "The leadership would have been more than happy to select the first Catholic chaplain of the House in recent memory, but they just concluded Father O'Brien was not their man. That Father O'Brien is now complaining to the media about the alleged anti-Catholic bias he faced only confirms that judgment." washtimes.com

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