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'''Deal W. Hudson''' is an influential conservative political operative. His most recent book is ''Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States'' (Simon & Schuster/Threshold, 2008). |
'''Deal W. Hudson''' is an influential conservative political operative. His most recent book is ''Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States'' (Simon & Schuster/Threshold, 2008). |
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He is most well known for his fall from grace, having raped a student from one of his classes. He was forced to retire from the the Republican National Committee and the boards of several Catholic and political groups. |
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Hudson was affiliated with [[George W. Bush]]'s 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns and has a close relationship with former Bush presidential advisor [[Karl Rove]]. Hudson is the head of Catholics for McCain National Steering Committee, [[John Mccain]]'s 80 person advisory board focused on influencing Catholics to vote for McCain in the [[2008 Presidential Election]]. Hudson's influence in the McCain Campaign can be evidenced in the attempts he orchestrated to rectify fallout over Senator McCain's embrace of anti-Catholic pastor [[John Hagee]]. |
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== Media Baiting in the 2008 Election == |
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He has recently engineered a media campaign accusing the presumptive democratic nominee [[Barack Obama]] of infanticide by referencing Obama's Illinois state senate vote against a bill containing the [[Born-Alive Infants Protection Act]] without referencing the bill's language equating the unanimously supported act to the highly contested practice of [[abortion]]. Since Obama has never killed a child, this charge is inaccurate and equates to political media baiting. Critical media analysts maintain that beyond being equivocal, the claim Obama supports killing babies is base attack intended to bait the press and TV news programs into repeating an unfounded accusation ad infinitum. |
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== Dismissal from University Job for Rape of a Student == |
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In the early 1970s, Hudson was lisenced in Texas as a Baptist minister but coverted to Catholocism in 1982. In 1987 he became a full time professor at [[Fordham University]]. His academic career ended in 1994 when Hudson when he raped an 18 year-old Fordham University freshman who was a student in his philosophy class. At the time of the incident he was 44 years-old and raising children with his third wife. The victim, Cara Poppas, “had been in-and-out of foster homes from age seven.” Hudson's personal relationship with his student began when Poppas reached out to her philosophy professor after class for guidance. Hudson invited Poppas to his private office where she confided to him at length about the personal demons rooted in her past as, in her words, “a ward of the court, without parents, severely depressed, and even suicidal.” The following week, Hudson invited Poppas to a [[Fat Tuesday]] celebration taking place in a West Village bar with a group of NYU students. Poppas described the incident to Feuerherd: “‘I was very reluctant,’ wrote Poppas, who, at age 18, was still three years shy of the legal drinking age. ‘I knew I would be the youngest, as well as the newcomer to their frequent gatherings,’ she wrote. ‘He [Hudson] promised not to tell the others my age. I decided to go.'” After Poppas had been served shots of tequila, several of which were body shots, she recalls witnessing Hudson fondle two female NYU students, alternately "heavily French kissing" one student then the other. Poppas became so intoxicated she was no longer capable of walking and reported not being able to feel her body. After stopping by his house to tell his wife he was escorting a Fordham student home, Hudson brought Poppas back to his office, where Deal raped her. According to Poppas, Hudson instructed her to remain silent about the non-consensual sexual encounter; however, school officials were eventually made aware of the professor's conduct, which resulted in the loss of Hudson's tenure at the [[Jesuit]] university. |
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In 1996, Poppas filed suit against Hudson and agreed to a settlement of $30,000. |
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== Hypocrisy == |
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Hudson was the publisher of the conservative Roman Catholic magazine ''Crisis''. He regularly wrote a column in ''Crisis'' outlining his conservative stance and commenting on contemporary political issues. A vocal opponent of gay marriage, Hudson spoke out against the practice as an affront to the sanctity of marriage as an institution. Hudson was an outspoken critic of President Clinton, using his column to denounce the president's behavior, describing Clinton's private behavior as an impeachable offense, an abuse to his office and an abuse of his position of authority over a subordinate. |
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Hudson was a key figure in George W. Bush's 2004 campaign. Among his most notable contributions was leading a successful effort to get a low level employee, Ono Ekeh, fired from his job at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for African-American Catholics (NCR, April 23) because Ekeh hosted a “Catholics for Kerry” Web site. Hudson also lead a call for individual priests to deny communion to [[John Kerry]], who was a professed Catholic and former altar boy, in response to the candidates positions on abortion and gay marriage. "It's in the hands of his ordinary [bishop] - and when his ordinary has spoken and said that politicians should refrain from communion, he's alluding to the fact that someone like Sen. Kerry should not consider themselves part of the Catholic community." |
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However, Hudson was forced to resign from his position in the campaign as Catholic outreach adviser to the President following the publication of Feuerherd's profile on Hudson, which resurfaced his sexual misconduct with Pappas. Hudson publically distanced himself from the Bush campaign in a column for the [[National Review]], which expressed resentment toward Feuerherd for writing an article that, he believed, was unfairly "targeted at my personal life — not my political beliefs." Hudson used the column to make a public apology for his past actions, writing: "No one regrets my past mistakes more than I do." Shortly thereafter, Hudson tendered his resignation as publisher of ''Crisis''. |
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==References== |
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*http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004c/082704/082704i.php |
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*http://web.archive.org/web/20070808025732/http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn081904.htm |
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*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/05/mccains-catholic-committe_n_100277.html |
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*http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0405221.htm #3 |
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*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhdAL7uqouk |
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*http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/hudson200408181000.asp |
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*http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/3/31/170532.shtml |
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Revision as of 02:35, 8 August 2008
Deal W. Hudson is an influential conservative political operative. His most recent book is Onward, Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States (Simon & Schuster/Threshold, 2008).