Shut up, I Explained Part 4

See, the ICIRR receives money from the CCHD, and Billy is upset....

Start over. There's this group called the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Right off the bat, I don't like them - I distrust any organization that has "Coalition" or "Action" or or "People's" in its title. Anyway, in their fight for "Rights" for "Immigrants and Refugees", they made the following statement:

"As an organization dedicated to the full inclusion of all Americans, whether foreign-born or native-born, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) supports marriage equality. 

ICIRR believes that full equality and civic participation should extend to recognition of all families, including those involving same-sex partnerships."
  
This did not sit well withe the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), to wit:

"Donors to the CCHD give to this anti-poverty organization with the understanding that their money will be passed on to organizations that respect the teachings of the Catholic faith. Organizations that apply for funds do so agreeing to this condition.
On May 23, the ICIRR board broke faith with its member organizations when it publicly supported so called “same-sex marriage.” For its own political advantage, it introduced a matter extraneous to its own purpose and betrayed its own members, who were not consulted.
The CCHD had no choice but to respect the unilateral decision of the ICIRR board that effectively cut off funding from groups that remain affiliated with ICIRR."

That sounds reasonable, right? Not to Gubernatorial Hopeful, Bill Daley! 

  He wrote to Cardinal George:

As a lifelong Roman Catholic, Daley said he was “proud our church has been such a leader on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform.“But for the church to turn its back on its long-standing work with groups that aid the poor over a completely unrelated issue is an injustice, plain and simple.”  

The open letter was signed by a bunch of other Democrat political hacks, some of whom claim to be Catholic.

Cardinal George CLOBBERED them:


" It is intellectually and morally dishonest to use the witness of the Church’s concern for the poor as an excuse to attack the Church’s teaching on the nature of marriage...  Those who signed the open letter in the Tribune proclaimed their adherence to the Catholic faith even as they cynically called upon others to reject the Church’s bishops. The Church is no one’s private club; she is the Body of Christ, who tells us he is “the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” Because the signers of the letters are Catholic, they know that in a few years, like each of us, they will stand before this same Christ to give an account of their stewardship. Jesus is merciful, but he is not stupid; he knows the difference between right and wrong. Manipulating both immigrants and the Church for political advantage is wrong."

Read the whole letter here!