Catholic Activists Ask McCain To Boot Adviser

Catholic Activists Ask McCain To Boot Adviser

Tensions are heating up among politically-minded Catholic activists after a group of left-leaning Catholics today publicly asked Sen. John McCain to boot a faith adviser who resigned from the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004 because of allegations he sexually harassed a college student.

"Deal Hudson is not the type of Catholic leader you want publicly associated with your campaign," read the letter from Catholics United to McCain.

The allegations against Deal Hudson are not new and their reappearance reflects the nasty back-and-forth among Catholic activists as the election draws closer. Hudson, a member of the Catholics for McCain National Steering Committee, resigned as publisher of the conservative Catholic magazine Crisis after the allegations first surfaced in 2004 in the pages of the National Catholic Reporter.

The allegations centered on an 18-year-old student who said Hudson got her drunk and had sex with her when she was his student at Fordham University in 1994. Hudson resigned from the faculty that year and today again expressed "guilt and regret."

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