Catholics United - enough with the feigned "nonpartisanship"

Chris Korzen, founder of the advocacy group Catholics United -- not to be confused with Catholics United for the Faith, the latter legitimately so -- has welcomed Obama's pick of Joe Biden. Note the bald-faced lie:

“Senator Biden’s well-known commitment to his Catholic faith has inspired his advocacy on issues such as genocide, universal health care, education, workers’ rights, and violence against women. His faith has helped him to find solace during times of tragedy and crisis. We are optimistic that Senator Biden’s history of seeking practical means of addressing abortion will help move our nation beyond the divisive, acrimonious, and unproductive debate that has come to surround the issue. Senator Biden accepts his church’s teachings on human life and can work to advance these teachings in ways that Americans of all political persuasions can support. Catholics United is especially hopeful that operatives on the far right will refrain from using Senator Biden’s faith and the teachings of the Catholic Church as political weapons in the coming campaign. Faith and values should be used to unite Americans behind solutions to the key challenges of this age – war, poverty, lack of health care, and a looming climate crisis – and not as partisan wedges to divide voters.”

Catholics United describes itself as a "non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting the message of justice and the common good." Judging by Korzen's journalistic history, together with their wilful disregard for Biden's clear disobedience to Catholic teaching, it's pretty clear who they're rooting for in the election.

Related

• "Let us not be divisive", by DarwinCatholic. August 23, 2008.
• " I refuse to join Catholics United" - Thomas Peters (American Papist) does a little extra research and finds out Chris Korzen
  
  
  • recently took part in a Democratic conference call (along side promininant pro-Obama Catholic Douglas Kmiec) to prepare for the upcoming national convention. [source]
    
  • is the guy behind the defunct "Catholic Voting Project", which Karl Keating accurately pointed out claimed to be run by "nonpartisan," [indeed - 'committed' Catholics] but their web site has a clear bias in favor of John Kerry." Karl Keating systematically destroys Korzen's claims to be non-partisan and "Catholic".
    
  • frequently tries to marginalize conservative Catholics, claiming them to be GOP shills.
  • and, of course, writes for the ultra-liberal Huffington Post