Friday, December 18, 2015

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS MUST HIRE SODOMITES ???????????

NEWS RELEASE

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE

CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE CONDEMNS DECISION IN
BARRETT V. FONTBONNE ACADEMY

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today condemned the decision of Norfolk County Superior Court Justice Douglas H. Wilkins in Barrett v. Fontbonne Academy, which granted summary judgment to a homosexual man who sued the Catholic school---administered by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Boston---after it reversed a decision to hire him upon learning that he had contracted a civilly recognized marriage with another man.

In June, 2013, Michael Barrett of Dorchester applied for the position of Food Services Director at Fontbonne Academy in Milton. On July 9, 2013, following an interview during which Barrett responded affirmatively to a question about his support for the principle that all employees of the Catholic school should be "ministers of the mission," Barrett was offered and accepted the position for which he had applied.

Later that same day, Barrett completed a new hire form in which he listed his civil husband as an emergency contact. On July 12, 2013, Barrett was informed that he could not be hired because his homosexual relationship was incompatible with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

Barrett, represented by the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, (GLAAD), brought suit against Fontbonne Academy, alleging discrimination in employment.

In finding for Barrett, Judge Wilkins---a Governor Deval Patrick appointee who served as First Assistant Attorney General under Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger---ruled that the Catholic school violated Massachusetts anti-discrimination law, was not exempt as a religious institution from that law, and enjoyed no constitutional protections in this matter.

The Catholic Action League called Judge Wilkins decision "a frontal assault on religious freedom, an appalling subordination of the First Amendment to the Massachusetts gay rights law, and a victory by homosexual activists in their campaign to coerce Christians into compliance with same sex marriage."

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment: "Religious liberty is guaranteed not only by the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but even more broadly, by Article II of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution. Religious freedom consists not merely of the right to worship, but of the right of religious institutions to govern their internal affairs free of state interference."

"Judge Wilkins's decision would compel Catholic institutions to hire those who reject and despise Catholic teaching, fatally impairing the constitutionally protected right of those institutions to carry on their mission. This is precisely the sort of 'excessive entanglement' of government with religion decried and prohibited by the U.S. Supreme Court in Lemon v. Kurtzman."

"The judge's ruling does underscore two facts---the charade-like character of the religious exemption to the 1989 Bay State gay rights law, which we warned against at the time, and the prophetic nature of the dissenting opinion of Justice Clarence Thomas in Obergefell, which held that same gender marriage will have 'potentially ruinous consequences for religious liberty.'"

Monday, December 14, 2015

#### GUN FREE ZONES,NO GO ZONES-STUPIDITY REIGNS

(The leftist,progressive,communist national media is going bonkers over Trumps temporary stop to
Muslim immigration until we find out what the "hell"is going on in the world and our country.
In Europe there are Muslim enclaves that are "no go zones" for the police and firemen.They have
permitted Muslims to come and go,back and forth to Islam countries,So,you get Paris massacres
and now San Bernadino,Calif. The national media never told the American people about what was
going on in Europe because of political correctness,or diversity. As Trump says we don't know who
is in our country,who came over the Mexican border,who overstayed their visas,etc,etc,etc. BLL)  


December 12, 2015

Muslim no-go zones in America
By Bryan Fischer

Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at "Focal Point"

Host of "Focal Point" on American Family Radio, 1-3pm CT, M-F www.afr.net

If we want police officers in America to be able to wear their police uniforms in their own cars without fear, we'd best do something about unrestrained and unvetted Islamic immigration.

France has 751 Muslim "no-go" zones, where ambulances won't go without a police escort, and where police won't go without backup.

Now we are finding out that Scotland Yard is banning police officers in the UK from wearing their uniforms in their own cars on the way to work, for fear that they'll get their heads cut off by followers of the religion of peace.

This is far from an unrealistic fear. Just two years ago, British army soldier Lee Rigby was killed as he was walking down the street in uniform in broad daylight by two Muslim men, who ran him down with their car and then hacked him to death with knives and meat cleavers.

Donald Trump yesterday pointed out the dismal reality that no-go zones are now a reality in the UK. "We have places in London and other places that are so radicalised that police are afraid for their own lives."

For his truth-telling, a government-sponsored petition has been launched to ban him from entry to the UK. As of this morning, it had reached 250,000 signatures, the threshold for the issue to be taken up and debated by Parliament. Signatures are being added at rate of seven per second.

The hypocrisy here is glaring to a spectacular degree. If Trump advocates a ban on immigration, why, that's horrible, no good and very bad. When Parliament advocates banning him from immigration, why that's most excellent.

Trump has been blistered by British authorities who want to assure folks that there is nothing to see here, move along. Scotland Yard is insisting "Trump could not be more wrong," and Home Secretary Theresa May last night rejected his claims, insisting, "I can assure you that Donald Trump has got it absolutely wrong. The police in London are not afraid to go out and police the streets."

Chancellor George Osborne told members of Parliament, "I think the best way to defeat nonsense like this is to engage in robust democratic debate and make it clear his views are not welcome."

A candidate for mayor in London added to his version of "robust debate" by calling Trump "an appalling creature" and "one of the most malignant figures in modern politics." For good measure he added that Trump is "an utterly repellent figure."One MP said, "He's a hate preacher and therefore not welcome round here."

Robert Gordon University did its bit by stripping Donald Trump of the honorary degree it had bestowed on him.

I see. So the way the UK apparently engages in "robust democratic debate" is to tell Donald Trump to shut up and not show his face within a thousand miles of their shores. I see a lot of "robust" in that, but I don't see much "debate."

But alas for the head-in-the-sand Yard and the head-in-the-sand Secretary, and the head-in-the-sand Chancellor, police are telling a much different story, and backing Trump's claims to the hilt.
From the Daily Mail:

Serving police officers today backed Donald Trump's claim that some Muslim communities in the UK are no-go areas because of extremism.

Several Met officers have said the 'Islamification' of some parts of the capital requires 'extra vigilance' and they can't wear uniforms for safety reasons...
[O]ne serving officer said today Trump had 'pointed out something plainly obvious, something which I think we aren't as a nation willing to own up to'.

Another policeman said that he and other colleagues fear being terror targets and spoke of the 'dire warning' from bosses not to wear a uniform 'even in my own car.'

[O]ne serving officer in west London said: 'Islamification has and is occurring,' adding: 'You have to have extra vigilance in certain parts when you are working.'

A Lancashire Police officer told MailOnline: 'There are Muslim areas of Preston that, if we wish to patrol, we have to contact local Muslim community leaders to get their permission.'
One officer from Yorkshire said on the online forum Police.Community: 'I'm not allowed to travel in half blues to work anymore IN MY OWN CAR as we're 'All at risk of attack' – yet as soon as someone points out the obvious it's 'divisive.'

He added: 'In this instance he (Trump) isn't wrong. Our political leaders are best either ill-informed or simply being disingenuous.

'He's pointed out something that is plainly obvious, something which I think we aren't as a nation willing to own up to – do you think a US Police Department would ban officers from wearing their uniforms under jackets etc due to FEAR of their cops being killed by extremists?

'We implement half measures such as 'No-one is allowed to come into work half blues, even in your own cars because if you get beheaded it'll be your own fault.


'It would be seen as un-American, un-democratic, not the done thing... In the UK though we accept it'.

One female officer in the Met said if a police officer was attacked it would be written off.

She said: 'Even if one of us did get killed or dragged off in a van. It would just be reported as a 'one-off incident' and no reason to change the 'British style of policing...'

Another Met officer who resigned this year said: 'I was a PC in the Met for 11 years – I resigned as I couldn't handle it anymore.'

'Whilst provocative Trump's comments does carry some weight. PCs are not permitted to even come to work in 'half Blues' (just wearing trousers and shirt) for fear of attack whilst going to work. That is a directive from Scotland Yard.

'PCs have come out to find police cars having the brake lines cut and sometimes their own personal cars damaged'.

Another serving police officer agreed and said: 'Same here regarding the dire warnings of wearing half blues even in my own car and I'm not in London'.


The stunning reality is that there are Muslim ghettos in some British cities where the police are never called. Why? Because they handle everything internally according to the dictates of Sharia law. Who knows how many honor killings, or female genital mutilations, or sex trafficking of minors, or forced marriages occur there?

Tom Winsor, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, said in 2014 (emphasis mine), "There are some communities born under other skies who will not involve police at all. I am reluctant to name the communities in question but there are communities from other cultures who would prefer to police themselves. There are cities in the Midlands where the police never go because they are never called. They never hear of any trouble because the community deals with that on its own. They just have their own form of community justice."

"Their own form of community justice" is just a euphemism for Sharia law, which does not honor a single cultural value we cherish in the Christian West.


Because the police "get close to zero" calls in these areas, said Winsor, "They don't know what injustices are being perpetrated. It's almost a closed book because we can't go there so we don't know. It could be anything from low-level crime right up to murder..."

If we want to see where we in America are headed, we need only look at Europe. First it was in France, now it's in England. It doesn't take blinding insight to realize we're next.

Hamtramck, Michigan now has a city council that is majority Muslim. The call to Muslim prayer is broadcast five times a day over the entire city, with the first blast launching at 6 am every day whether Christian residents are offended by it or not.

Am I saying Hamtramck is a no-go zone? Of course not. Am I saying that if something isn't done, it will become one? If there is anything to learn from Europe, the answer to that question is an unequivocal yes.

Concern over untrammelled Muslim immigration is not bigotry, it's common sense. Anyone who loves America and is thinking clearly and objectively has reason to worry. This is not Islamophobia, for there is nothing irrational about our fear of Islamic fundamentalism.

No, it is Islamorealism. And whether you agree with Mr. Trump or not, it's time to bleed the mindless hysteria out of this debate. Name-calling is not debate, disagreement is not hatred, and the truth is not hate speech.

Bottom line: it already looks like England is not just a gun-free zone but on its way to becoming a brain-free zone to boot. Let's not follow ttHEhem there.
(Unless otherwise noted, the opinions expressed are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.)

Thursday, December 3, 2015

#### HILLARY:FUND OVERSEAS ABORTIONS FOR RAPE VICTIMS


 
(Every embryo and fetus is a baby girl or baby boy. Their DNA proves this. They receive their
DNA at fertilization.These are biological scientific facts,not political stork stories by Hillary,etc.
Did Roe v Wade even mention DNA?????BLL)

 
 

The Pulse, , ,

Hillary demands US fund overseas abortions for rape victims - but this woman conceived in rape is crying foul

Fr. Mark Hodge
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants the Helms Amendment, which prohibits foreign aid for abortions, amended with a rape exception.
The use of rape as a weapon of war is particularly heinous. ISIS jihadists actually abduct and intentionally impregnate women, as a means of spreading Mohammedanism and facilitating the domination of Islamic rule.
We deeply empathize with those women who have been so inhumanly abused, but we still say the murderous violence of abortion is never the answer to the violence of rape.
Pro-life speaker Rebecca Kiessling told LifeNews that forcing Americans to pay for abortions would just victimize women in conflict areas a second time.
Kiessling points out that "most people don't put a face to this issue – for them abortion is just a concept."
Indeed, Kiessling gives a face to the issue of what compromising politicians call "the hard cases."
Kiessling herself was conceived by rape, when her birth mother was abducted at knife-point by a serial rapist.
Kiessling says that those who truly believe in the sanctity of human life understand that "every child conceived in rape is worthy of protection."
She says true pro-lifers know that the conceived baby is innocent, and intentionally made by God in His image, even if his or her father was a rapist.
Besides, Kiessling says, the destruction of abortion doesn't help the mother.
"Rape victim mothers need real help, not abortion," Kiessling said. "Justice is served by punishing the perpetrator, not the innocent child."
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Sarah Terzo of Live Action News says rape exceptions give the message "that their lives should not be protected – that their lives are not valuable."
"If it's relevant that unborn children feel pain, then why is it not relevant that children conceived in rape also feel pain?" Kiessling told Terzo.
Elizabeth Reed told Terzo, "I was 15 years old, raped by a person I trusted, kicked out of my home by my mother, and homeless. And yet, I chose life and adoption for my daughter[.] ... Whenever someone says they are pro-life 'except in cases of rape' I feel directly like they are saying to me that my experience was useless – that I should have aborted her and moved on – that her life doesn't matter, and she's not worthy of what I went through.
"When they say things like, 'No woman should be forced to carry a rapist's child,' I feel slapped in the face," Reed said. "My daughter wasn't the rapist's child – she is mine."
"I know that rape is traumatic, first hand," Reed concluded.  "I understand the plight of women who have been abused, but my daughter was a picture of hope to me[.] ... In ALL things, God works for the good. Even tragedy."
Kiessling noted that in war-ravaged Congo, victims of rape are provided health care for themselves and their babies. Women are also given counseling and childcare for their children conceived in rape.
In December 2014, two dozen groups in the U.S. called for an executive order allowing tax dollars for abortion for women victims of rape in war or conflict. Earlier this year, 81 Democratic lawmakers urged the president to create a rape exception to the Helms Amendment.
But Students for Life's website asks, "Should a child die for the crimes of his or her parent?" and explains, "A woman, violated in a sexual assault, should be surrounded by love and support. If that assault results in pregnancy, aren't there now two people affected by the assault? Two people in need of protection and care?"
Right to Life of Michigan's website notes that fully half of women impregnated by rape do not abort their children. "Life is precious in every circumstance," they say.
"It is absolutely indisputable that the life within the womb is a unique human being," according to the pro-lifers of Michigan. "To say that this irreplaceable life can be deliberately destroyed for any reason denies the intrinsic humanity of the unborn."

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

#### BOSTON GLOBE'S BIGOTRY AGAINST CATHOLICS

NEWS ALERT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: C. J. DOYLE

CATHOLIC AUTHOR EXPOSES BIGOTRY
OF THE BOSTON GLOBE

The Hollywood formula film Spotlight, which celebrates The Boston Globe for its campaign to bring down the Catholic Church by revealing that hundreds of minors in the Archdiocese of Boston were molested by perverted priests---who are always carefully described as pedophiles and sexual abusers, rather than what they actually were, homosexual predators---opened today in Boston and throughout the nation.

Predictably, the intrepid reporters of Morrissey Boulevard are admiringly portrayed as doggedly seeking the truth, which is shamefully concealed by a powerful and corrupt Catholic Church. This tendentious exercise in cinematic propaganda omits a few salient facts, however.

It doesn't tell you that the pursuit of truth was the last thing anybody at the Globe had on their mind. It doesn't tell you that prior to the 2002 revelations, the Globe waged a thirty year war against Catholicism, maligning the Catholic Faith, its leaders, and its moral teachings, opposing the constitutional rights of Catholics, and trying to destroy the political career of anyone in public life who supported those teachings and defended those rights.  Nor does the movie tell you how the Globe hired an excommunicated ex-priest to write scores of columns blaming the Church for all the crimes of history.

If you are interested in finding out the truth about The Boston Globe and its hostile coverage of Catholicism, Catholic author David F. Pierre, Jr. has written a splendid little book entitled SINS OF THE PRESS: The Untold Story of the Boston Globe's Reporting on Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church.

Dave Pierre not only documents the Globe's longstanding, vitriolic and pervasive institutional animus against the Church, but exposes the fact that the Globe, for decades, promoted the very same behaviors, pathologies, and, in some cases, individuals, which it later condemned the Catholic Church for tolerating. Pierre also recounts all the distortions, misrepresentations, calculated omissions, and outright deceptions perpetrated by the Globe in its campaign to discredit the moral authority and destroy the public influence of its historic adversary, the Catholic Church.

SINS OF THE PRESS is thoroughly researched, meticulously documented, well organized, hard hitting, and eminently readable. Although short (about 170 pages), it is an impressive piece of scholarship and a valuable contribution to American Catholic history.

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is pleased to give it our wholehearted endorsement. As an organization committed to combating anti-Catholicism, the League also wishes to extend its thanks to Dave Pierre for his tireless work in constructing this detailed historical narrative and record of hypocrisy and anti-Catholic bigotry in New England's most powerful media institution.

If you wish to read SINS OF THE PRESS, you may acquire a copy by going to http://www.amazon.com/Sins-Press-Untold-Reporting-Catholic/dp/1511852593.

It is always inspiring, when, in this hostile culture, you encounter a Catholic with the courage to fight back!

Thursday, November 19, 2015

#### CATHOLIC BISHOP'S BAD JUDGEMENT

(Money from this organization has gone to communist Saul Alinsky groups which promote leftist,progressive,communist programs. Potus Obama and Hillary Clinton are followers of Saul Alinsky. One of his strategies  to change an organization is to bankrupt it and then rebuild it into a socialist/communist
organization. Potus Obama is working to "transform" our constitutional republic into a socialist republic like they had in eastern Europe and have in Cuba. When Soviet Union imploded and could not support Cuba,     leftist,progressive,communist Potus Obama bailed out the communist government of Cuba with the help of the pope. BLL)




CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

By Mary Anne Hackett, President, Catholic Citizens of Illinois
On the weekend of November 21-22, the collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development will be taken up in the Catholic Churches around the country and once again, the Catholic Media Coalition, of which Catholic Citizens of Illinois is a member, is urging a boycott of the collection.  CCHD professes to assist the poor, not by direct charity, but by developing projects that enable the poor to help themselves.  In reality, the bulk of donations go to community organizing groups that agitate for the leftist agenda often in direct conflict with Catholic teachings.
Over the years the controversy about the CCHD has continued because of the bishops’ failure to institute change.  Many Catholics will remember the millions of dollars funneled to ACORN before its scandalous activities leading to the mortgage and bank collapse were exposed.  Several times the CCHD has pledged to reform but its direction remains unchanged.
In the 2013-2014 years’collection, 50% of CCHD Grants were given to Alinskyian organizations.  According to Stephanie Block, an expert on Allinskyian organizing, CCHD, under the guise of “charity,” channels money solicited from the faithful into groups that promote abortion, contraception, euthanasia, homosexual activism, and socialist economic  policies. Many CCHD-funded organizations are actively working to change Church teaching.
For forty-five years the CCHD has shamelessly pushed aside any corrective reform efforts, expanding its Alinskyian networks into more cities and exporting the twisted theology of Alinskyian organizing into other countries.
The Catholic Media Coalition and its individual member groups urge Catholics in the pew to “Just say NO!” to the CCHD collection this month.  Give your hard-earned money to groups that really serve the poor.
Watch the video below:
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Note:  The Lepanto Institute, under the direction of Michael Hichborn, who was formerly director of American Life League’s Defend the Faith Project, has prepared two detailed reports for recent CCH funding periods – one of them being 2014-2015.
See: www.lepantoinstitute.org/cchd-grants-2014-2-15.
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About the Catholic Media Coalition:  The Catholic Media Coalition is an organization of Catholic writers, webmasters, editors, and others engaged in producing media for and about the Catholic Church.  Coming from all over the United States and members of different approved Catholic Rites, we welcome all practicing Catholic members of the media who are loyal to the Magisterium and Church teaching
Mission Statement: To report truthfully about the Catholic Church and to defend, foster, and spread authentic Catholic Faith and Culture.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

#### A GOOD GOD FEARING WOMAN GOES TO HER ETERNAL REWARD

    (Gloria was a fine decent woman who loved and lived her Catholic faith and ferociously fought for her faith and the rights of women. She was a true feminist.  Unlike the phony feminists of today,she fought for women's rights from the womb to the tomb. She was against the greatest domestic violence-abortion-the killing  of baby women in the womb.
     She,and her intrepid band of fighters fought former Bishop McVinney to keep  Bishop Hendricken high school viable when the Bishop wanted to close it down.The Bishop Hendricken community owe a hugh debt of gratitude to Gloria   today for her courage, fortitude,and tenacious defense of her Catholic faith and   its moral teachings and principles. BLL)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
Gloria L. (Munroe) Lefoley
November 8, 2015

Gloria L. (Munroe) Lefoley, 86, of Warwick passed away on Sunday, November 8th, at Kent Hospital.  She was the beloved wife of Joseph G. Lefoley for 64 years.  Born in Providence, she was a daughter of the late Harry E. and Anna M. (Vaillancourt) Munroe.
   
Mrs. Lefoley was a Secretary in the Sales Department of Gorham Mfg. Co.  She was a graduate of St. Xavier Academy, class of 1947 and received her Associates Degree From Bryant Stratton College.  A communicant of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Warwick, she was a past president of the Ladies of St. Anne and a member of Catholics for Life.  Mrs. Lefoley was one of the first inductees into the Bishop Hendricken Hall of Fame.  She also enjoyed gardening.
   
She was the loving mother of Kathleen L. Wright and her companion Henry E. Hatcher of North Kingstown, Sheila M. Hopkins and her husband Stephen of Warwick, Stephen G. Lefoley and his wife Karen of Londonderry, NH, Christopher P. Lefoley and his wife Marian of Narragansett, Mary A. Armstrong and her husband Bill of North Kingstown, Martha H. Dean and her husband Edward of Warwick and Patrick J. Lefoley and his wife Phyllis of Wakefield.  Cherished grandmother of fifteen and great grandmother of one.  Caring sister of Harry Munroe and his wife Ann of Coventry and the late Lorraine Petit.
   
Her funeral will be held on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 8:45 am from THE URQUHART-MURPHY FUNERAL HOME, 800 Greenwich Avenue, Route 5, Warwick (Exit 12A on I-95) with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 am in St. Francis of Assisi Church, 596 Jefferson Boulevard, Warwick.  Burial will follow in St. Joseph Cemetery, West Greenwich.  Relatives and friends are invited.  Calling hours will be held on Wednesday from 4-7 pm. 
   
In lieu of flowers, gifts in her memory to St. Francis of Assisi Church, 596 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, RI 02886 or St. Kevin Church, 333 Sandy Lane, Warwick, RI 02889 would be appreciated.

Saturday, November 7, 2015

#### PELOSI'S FRAUD APPOINTMENTS


Dems on new panel investigating Planned Parenthood got $81k from the abortion giant

November 6, 2015 (NewsBusters) -- It’s called following the money trail – and the media should do more of it.
On Wednesday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appointed six Democrats to serve on the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Select Investigative Panel examining Planned Parenthood after undercover videos condemned its practice of aborted baby parts. While journalists reported the news, they left out one key detail: those same six Democrats have received more than $81,000 from Planned Parenthood.
Leader Pelosi announced the news in a press release.
“I am proud to name six strong champions of women, families and facts to stand up against the latest Republican assault on women’s health,” she began. “Hard-working families deserve better than a taxpayer-funded Republican Select Committee fixated on dismantling women’s health. As Republicans try to take affordable family planning and lifesaving preventive care away from millions of American women, Democrats will be in the room to fight for the truth.”
She then listed the Democratic Members serving on the “Select Committee to Attack Women’s Health”: Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-WA) and Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ).
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According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which currently lists Planned Parenthood donations from 1998 through the 2016 elections cycles, the above representatives received nearly $80,000 from the abortion giant.
Here are the totals per politician:
Rep. Jan Schakowsky: $11,865
Rep. Jerrold Nadler: $5,535
Rep. Diana DeGette: $36,735
Rep. Jackie Speier: $4,000
Rep. Suzan DelBene: $19,232
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman: $2,500
But going back to 1990, Planned Parenthood has given the representatives more than $81,000.
Back when the Center for Responsive Politics listed donations going back to 1990, MRC Culture counted $13,115 for Rep. Jan Schakowsky in contributions from Planned Parenthood. Adding that number to the total of the others since 1998 ($68,002) brings the total to more than $81,000.
The history between the representatives and Planned Parenthood is too long to list, but here are some of the highlights:
Earlier this year, Rep. Schakowsky and Rep. Nadler sent a letter to the U.S. Attorney General calling for an investigation into the Center for Medical Progress, which produced the undercover videos – not Planned Parenthood. Rep. Nadler has gone so far as to call the creators of the vidoes "liars in a long line of liars."
Rep. DeGette admitted in 2011 that she was a member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Planned Parenthood "for several years" in the 1990s.
Rep. Speier has defended Planned Parenthood funding before, in 2011, when she publicized her own abortion.