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Furor over religion in La. gov's race
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| Contributor | The Sunset Provision |
| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Aug 22, 2007 10:01am |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 22, 2007 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A political ad from the Louisiana governor's race is drawing a storm of criticism for accusing Republican Rep. Bobby Jindal of calling Protestants "scandalous, depraved, selfish and heretical."
Democrats say the state party's 30-second TV spot — running in heavily Protestant central and north Louisiana — simply explains Jindal's beliefs with his own words, using portions of the Catholic congressman's religious writings through the 1990s, before he was an elected official.
Jindal, who is running for governor, said the ad distorts his writings.
A lawyer for his campaign has sent a letter to nine television stations saying the commercial is defamatory and asking them to stop showing it. Fellow Republicans and the head of a national Catholic organization called the ad a smear campaign.
State Democratic Party officials said they won't drop it.
A spokeswoman for the Democratic Party said the ad is slated to run for about a week. It features an actress saying Jindal doesn't respect other people's religions and directs viewers to a Web site with links to several articles Jindal wrote on Catholicism.
"He wrote articles that insulted thousands of Louisiana Protestants," the narrator says.
A review of Jindal's writings on Catholicism, however, show his positions on faith to be more nuanced than the ad suggests.
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