CUA Trustee Places Anti-Biden Ads

The Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus and member of the University’s Board of Trustees, Carl A. Anderson, published an open letter to vice-presidential candidate Senator Joseph Biden in USA Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Times and the Delaware New Journal on Sept. 19.

In his letter, Anderson attacked Biden’s support for abortion rights and Biden’s belief that the Catholic Church has not been consistent in its teachings on abortion.

“I’m prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception,” said Biden on NBC’s Meet the Press on September 7. “But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout that I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.”

In his letter, Anderson said, “Statements that suggest that our Church has anything less than a consistent teaching on abortion are not merely incorrect; they may lead Catholic women facing crisis pregnancies to misunderstand the moral gravity of an abortion decision.”

Later in the letter, Anderson likens the denial of an unborn child’s right to life to the denial of civil rights to African Americans before the Civil War. Anderson then references Abraham Lincoln, “He confronted an America in which black Americans were not considered “persons” under the law, and were thus not entitled to fundamental Constitutional rights. Today, children of all races who are fully viable and only minutes from being born are also denied recognition as “persons” because of the Roe v. Wade regime that you so strongly support.”

This statement faced some criticism from the Catholic Democrats, a state-based network of Catholics who advocate for the Democratic Party. The Catholic Democrats told the National Catholic Reporter that Anderson, “grossly mischaracterized Sen. Biden as an advocate of abortion while carelessly ignoring the racial overtones of invoking slavery in attacking the running mate of history’s first black presidential nominee.”

Anderson acknowledges the letter was written on behalf of the 1.28 million members of the Knights of Columbus and their families.  However, some Knights of Columbus members have publicly stated their opposition to the letter including Thomas P. O’Neill III, the former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. “As a member of the Knights of Columbus, I want to make it clear that Carl Anderson does not speak for me.”

Anderson, a former Reagan administrator gave the commencement address last May. Anderson along with his wife Dorian Anderson stressed service and the importance of family.

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