Newsday, Long Island's notoriously anti-Catholic newspaper, is spinning wildly to try to contain the damage from rookie United States Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.'s self-inflicted wound: the gaffe of dissing religion in general and small town America values in particular while a tape was running.

The misleading headline of the lead Election 2008 article in the April 14, 2008 issue is "Obama seeks a leap of faith."

The article, by Glenn Thrush and Nia-Malika Henderson, reported that the Obama campaign is targeting Catholics as a "key voting bloc nationwide" and "Obama's failure to connect with a majority of Catholics in the Democratic primaries is one of his campaign's biggest headaches--one that poses a major threat to his chances of winning heavily-Catholic Pennsylvania next week and the big prize in November, experts say."

But the truth is that Obama disdains religion as the refuge of people embittered by economic adversity and genuinely religious people of all faiths except Satanism will be rejecting Obama as a false savior and keeping their faith instead of leaping FROM their faith and America's traditional values into the abyss of elitist secular extremism/extreme political correctness/moral relativism.

Democrat, Republican or independent, a genuine Catholic cannot be comfortable with a candidate so extreme as to deny Fourteenth Amendment protection to babies born alive as a result of botched abortions.

In targeting Catholic voters (and their eternal souls), Obama is preaching in favor of abandonment of faith.

Catholic voters, beware.

Non-Catholics too.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains, "Our moral life has its source in faith in God who reveals his love to us."

Obama would be well advised to stop denigrating the faith of others and asking voters to leap FROM faith.

Newsday: "Obama wasn't talking about Catholics specifically when he claimed small-town Americans were bitter and cling to guns and religion--but it will hardly help him make up lost ground."

Right!

Thanks be to God!