Newt Gingrich wants to be President of the United States. So, he's reintroducing himself to the American people as a devout Catholic. He and his wife, Calista (with whom he was having an affair during his second marriage to Marianne), even made a documentary about Pope John Paul II. How much more Catholic and good and kind and decent can one get. According to the NY Times, the new Newt "Puts Focus on Faith":
On a recent winter night here, Mr. Gingrich, 67, stood on stage at a Catholic school with his wife, Callista, and introduced a film they produced about the role Pope John Paul II played in the fall of Communism in Poland. As Mr. Gingrich looked out over a crowd of 1,300 people, he warned that the United States had become too secular a society.Here's the thing for Newt: If he wants to make religion and morals an issue, we'll play along -- and encourage the media to do that, too. That means a lot of talk about the issue of his two divorces, two affairs and three marriages. Seems like that might interfere with his new messaging. Newt thinks he can use his new found moral authority to trash the LGBT community in America. He's done that before. This time, we're going to hit back at every opportunity.
“To a surprising degree, we are in a situation similar to Poland’s in 1979,” he told the audience, which had gathered at a banquet for Ohio Right to Life, one of the nation’s oldest anti-abortion groups. “In America, religious belief is being challenged by a cultural elite trying to create a secularized America, in which God is driven out of public life.”
Newt is a fraud and a hypocrite. Although, some are falling for it:
Dr. Jack Willke, an early leader in the anti-abortion movement in Ohio and across the country, was among those waiting for an autograph. Dr. Willke said he was delighted that Mr. Gingrich had increased the role of faith in his public appearances, something that he said he did not recall during Mr. Gingrich’s tenure as speaker of the House.And, how Callista (a.k.a. the third Mrs. Gingrich who helped Newt cheat on the second Mrs. Gingrich) got into the picture is going to be part of the campaign story.
“We were there long before he was,” Mr. Willke said. “It was never a big public thing for Newt, but he’s surfaced now as considerably more so.”
As Dr. Willke and his wife, Barbara, mingled with others in the crowd, Mrs. Willke said she was delighted to read about Mr. Gingrich’s baptism as a Catholic in March 2009. When one woman asked about his conversion, Mrs. Willke replied: “His Catholicism certainly sounds legit, and even more so since Callista is in the picture now.”
Before any of the sanctimonious inside-the-beltway types start saying this should all be off limits, remember, Newt is making trying to make LGBT families a political issue. It's fair play.
