{"id":1293,"date":"2019-08-26T13:40:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:51:37","slug":"va-governor-northam-condoner-of-post-birth-abortion-appoints-an-anti-catholic-bigot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"VA Governor Northam &#8211; condoner of post birth abortion &#8211; appoints an anti-Catholic bigot."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>An appointment to a committee. If this isn&#8217;t hate speech, nothing is.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicleague.org\/va-gov-appoints-bigot\/\">VA GOV. APPOINTS BIGOT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">August 26, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 110%; text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Virginia Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicleague.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e7e656b0a27630ee25cd133ac&amp;id=e7169bc1b8&amp;e=36819a432e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Northam&#8217;s appointment of an anti-Catholic bigot to a state council on women&#8217;s issues<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gail Gordon Donegan is a local political activist. She is also a vicious anti-Catholic bigot. Now, thanks to Gov. Ralph Northam, she is an appointee to the Virginia Council on Women. It is an appointment the governor must withdraw\u2014at once!<\/p>\n<p>It would be hard to outdo Donegan&#8217;s vile tweets for pure, sustained hatred of Catholics, Catholic priests and Catholic teachings. A sampling:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Abortion is morally indefensible to Catholic priests bcuz it results in fewer children to rape.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Christmas is &#8220;the one time of year the Catholic Church is allowed to focus on a little boy.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&#8220;Go tell a Catholic they have dirt on their forehead.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">&nbsp;&#8220;Saw a bumper sticker: &#8216;You can\u2019t be both Catholic &amp; Pro-Choice.&#8217; Add: You can be a pedophile though!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This is the kind of thing one would expect from a Klansman, not a responsible advocate for women&#8217;s issues. There is no place for this kind of hate speech in the halls of government.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A statement from a Northam spokeswoman that the governor &#8220;certainly does not condone this language&#8221; is woefully inadequate. Northam must rescind his appointment of Donegan. Anything less will make him complicit in her anti-Catholic bigotry. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>Contact Gov. Northam&#8217;s<\/em> <em>press secretary Alena Yarmosky:&nbsp; <\/em><a href=\"mailto:alena.yarmosky@governor.virginia.gov\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color: #336699; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" target=\"_blank\" ymailto=\"mailto:alena.yarmosky@governor.virginia.gov\"><em>alena.yarmosky@governor.virginia.gov<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"color: #505050; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 110%; text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px 40px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An appointment to a committee. If this isn&#8217;t hate speech, nothing is. VA GOV. APPOINTS BIGOT August 26, 2019 Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam&#8217;s appointment of an anti-Catholic bigot to a state council on women&#8217;s issues: Gail Gordon Donegan is a local political activist. She is also a vicious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12983,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/12983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}