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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.

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