DENVER, May 14, 2001 (LSN.ca) – Pro-abortion U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette was uninvited from a speaking engagement at a dinner put on by the Denver Archdiocesan Housing Committee. When pro-lifers learned of the speaking engagement through a newspaper announcement, emails, faxes, calls and letters informed Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput who reacted by demanding that the invitation for DeGette be withdrawn.
DeGette vetted her outrage at being uninvited with the media and in a letter to the bishop. She admitted that she was surprised by the invitation to speak considering her own pro-abortion views but whined that her rejection was due to “the fringe politics of abortion.” Archbishop Chaput responded by letter to DeGette May 4 saying: “I’ve always been puzzled by political leaders who exclude unborn children from the protection of the justice they publicly claim to champion . . . I invite you to turn away from the fringe politics (of the abortion issue) by bringing your own politics more consistently in line with real service to the sanctity of human life.”
The archbishop’s spokesperson Greg Kail told the Denver Post, “It would be inappropriate for someone who is aggressively pro-abortion” to speak at a church event.
For more see the Denver Post at: https://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,53%257E31462,00.html