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More than 40 national Catholic leaders and prominent theologians at universities across the country released a strongly worded open letter today urging \u201cour fellow Catholics Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.\u201d<\/div>\n
In the lead up to Saturday\u2019s primary in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich has frequently blasted President Obama as a \u201cfood stamp president\u201d and implied that some African Americans are more content to collect welfare benefits than work. Rick Santorum attracted scrutiny for\u00a0telling Iowa voters<\/a>he doesn\u2019t want \u201cto make black people\u2019s lives better by giving them somebody else\u2019s money.\u201d<\/div>\n
The open letter reminds the two presidential candidates, vying for Christian conservative voters, that U.S. Catholic bishops have called racism an \u201cintrinsic evil\u201d and consistently defend vital government programs such as food stamps and unemployment benefits that help struggling Americans.<\/div>\n
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More than 40 national Catholic leaders and prominent theologians at universities across the country released a strongly worded open letter today urging \u201cour fellow Catholics Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes on the campaign trail.\u201d In the lead up to Saturday\u2019s primary in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich has frequently blasted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nCatholic Leaders Challenge Gingrich and Santorum on Divisive Rhetoric Around Race and Poverty<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More than 40 national Catholic leaders and prominent theologians at universities across the country released a strongly worded open letter today urging\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/catholic-leaders-challenge-gingrich-and-santorum-on-divisive-rhetoric-around-race-and-poverty.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catholic Leaders Challenge Gingrich and Santorum on Divisive Rhetoric Around Race and Poverty\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than 40 national Catholic leaders and prominent theologians at universities across the country released a strongly worded open letter today urging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/01\/catholic-leaders-challenge-gingrich-and-santorum-on-divisive-rhetoric-around-race-and-poverty.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhetoric Race and Religion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-21T13:42:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andre E. 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