Expressing disdain that Notre Dame, the nation’s leading Catholic universities, invited President Obama to speak at its commencement, Mr Gingrich spoke out: “It is sad to see Notre Dame invite President Obama to give the commencement address since his policies are so anti-catholic." Some bloggers have noted that Mr. Gingrich himself had been divorced, twice; the Church does not allow divorce unless the marriage can be proved never to have existed, and it is not clear whether Mr. Gingrich’s first two marriages were annulled.
Gingrich has recently launched "Renewing American Leadership" a new organization devoted to bringing conservative evangelicals and Roman Catholics into the political process, with a goal of "strengthening the frayed alliance between economic and religious conservatives". This is very odd because Newt Gingrich is a Baptist. During a visit to the O'Reilly Factor on Fox a couple of weeks ago, Gingrich warned viewers of a "gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us."
An article in the Times compares Newt Gingrich to Elmer Gantry a fictional revival preacher. He is seen as positioning himself on the far right of the increasingly right-wing Republican Party and "he sees a path to power in challenging Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee for leadership of the Elmer Gantry wing of his beaten party" according to the piece. Elmer Gantry author Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930, the first given to an American. He has 22 books to his credit and 3 plays. His writing style was mainly satirical and is closely associated with irony. Lewis at times criticized the American way of life. He wrote Elmer Gantry in 1926.
The Elmer Gantry movie premiered in 1960 and starred Burt Lancaster as Gantry and Jean Simmons as Sister Sharon Falconer.
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