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   LOS ANGELES (CBSLA/AP) — A newly-leaked email from the latest   
   Wikileaks dump appeared to show key Hillary Clinton aides making   
   derogatory statements about Catholicism and evangelical   
   Christianity.   
      
   The exchange was part of a 2011 email chain between Clinton   
   campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri, campaign chairman John   
   Podesta and John Halpin from the Center for American Progress.   
      
   Under the subject line of “Conservative Catholicism”, Halpin   
   makes reference to Fox CEO Rupert Murdoch and Wall Street   
   Journal managing editor Robert Thompson for “raising their kids   
   Catholic.”   
      
   “Friggin’ Murdoch baptized his kids in Jordan where John the   
   Baptist baptized Jesus”, Halpin said.   
      
   He goes on to claim that “(m)any of the most powerful elements   
   of the conservative movement are all Catholic”, which he   
   describes as “an amazing bastardization of the faith” that   
   includes “severely backwards gender relations”.   
      
   “It’s an amazing bastardization of the faith. They must be   
   attracted to the systematic thought and severely backwards   
   gender relations and must be totally unaware of Christian   
   democracy”, wrote Halpin.   
      
   Podesta does not respond to the email chain, but Palmieri   
   replies, “I imagine they think it is the most socially   
   acceptable politically conservative religion. Their rich friends   
   wouldn’t understand if they became evangelicals.”   
      
   Catholic League president Bill Donahue said the emails “reveal   
   anti-Catholicism on the part of the Clinton campaign” and called   
   for Clinton to “sanction Podesta and Palmieri immediately.”   
      
   A statement from Donahue read in part: “These anti-Catholic   
   remarks are bad enough, but it makes one wonder what else   
   Clinton’s chiefs, and others associated with the campaign, are   
   saying about Catholics and Catholicism.   
      
   “If Trump’s inner circle spoke with derision about transgender   
   persons, the sirens would be sounded by the mainstream media and   
   his operatives would be hung out to dry,” said Donahue.   
      
   The Clinton campaign would not confirm the authenticity of   
   Podesta’s leaked emails, noting that Russian hackers often   
   fabricate documents.   
      
   Podesta told the Associated Press the FBI is investigating   
   Russia’s possible role in hacking thousands of his personal   
   emails, an intrusion he said Donald Trump’s campaign may have   
   been aware of in advance.   
      
   While Podesta didn’t directly accuse Trump of assisting in any   
   Russian meddling with American campaigns, he suggested Trump was   
   either “willfully ignoring” intelligence officials’ warnings   
   about Russian government involvement or “an unwitting agent of   
   the Russian Federation.”   
      
   Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak dismissed the   
   accusations as untrue.   
      
   http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/10/12/wikileaks-top-clinton-   
   aides-take-aim-at-catholics-evangelical-christians/?e=l-   
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