Topic category:  Religion & Philosophy in the News

On October 13, 2016, Wendy Long, the New York nominee for U.S. Senate of the Republican, Conservative, and Reform parties, shared a distressing personal story of bigotry at an elite New York City private school. Since she kept an email about it sent to her by mistake, I doubt she will be disputed.Wikileaks has ripped the lid off the anti-Catholic bigotry that is not limited to Hillary Clinton and her political advisors.

Apparently inspired by recently disclosed Clinton World email demonstrating hostility toward faithful Christians, Long stated:

"There are many reasons to be thankful for Wikileaks, and perhaps the most important yet is for pointing out the ignorant bigotry that today's purported elites have when it comes to traditional Catholicism and Christianity in general. As noted in emails between John Halpin and John Podesta, members of the Democrat political class have disdain for those who believe and follow Church teachings.

"Unfortunately, it is something I know too well from personal experience.

"When my son was in Seventh Grade at St. Bernard's School in Manhattan, I was shocked to see his human biology class 'text.' He and his classmates were forced [to] read aloud in class material that misrepresented Catholic teaching on human sexuality. Forcing students to read aloud material that denigrates their faith constitutes indoctrination.

"When I pointed out to the school that the text misrepresented Catholic teaching on human sexuality, the school, which counts the late Cardinal Avery Dulles among its alumni, resisted my attempts to even discuss and correct it. When I sent excerpts from the Catholic Catechism in an attempt to show why the text was wrong, I was mistakenly copied on an email (which I have retained) from a senior member of the school stating that, in light of my persisting, he would tell our family that it was time to find a new school. This at an institution that purports not to discriminate on the basis of religion.

"The cultural elite in this country -- the Democrat Party, big media, big corporations, and our schools, from nursery school through universities -- is on a mission to wipe traditional religion from America, which the Founders acknowledged was established on God's natural law.

"Wikileaks has ripped the lid off the anti-Catholic bigotry that is not limited to Hillary Clinton and her political advisors. Unfortunately, bigotry towards traditional Jews and Christians is the last socially acceptable form of bigotry among the elites of the Acela corridor."

The Acela corridor runs between Washington, D,C, and Boston and includes Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York City.

Michael J. Gaynor

Biography - Michael J. Gaynor

Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.

Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.

The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.

Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.

Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.