The U.S. Catholic bishops withdrew from a national civil rights coalition on May 19, 2010, after the coalition advocated on behalf of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, the Ethics Daily website reports today.
The Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCR) was founded in 1950 by African American and Jewish leaders to press for passage of national civil rights laws.
In recent years, however, the coalition has broadened its agenda to include advocacy for issues that contradict the bishops' principles and policies, said Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, New York, who chairs the bishops' committee on justice and peace.
"The latest example of this is the LCCR support of the solicitor general's nomination to the Supreme Court," Murphy said in a statement. The support of Kagan -- an abortion rights proponent who was President Obama's solicitor general -- "compromises the principled positions of the bishops," Murphy declared.
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