Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) issued an apology after posting a video showing to mock the sacrament of the Eucharist, noting that she “would by no means do one thing to denigrate somebody’s religion.”
In a assertion supplied to Fox2 Detroit by Whitmer’s workplace, the governor defined that the video, during which she could be seen carrying a Harris-Walz camouflage hat and putting a Dorito chip on the tongue of Canadian writer and journalist Liz Plank, was “alleged to be a video in regards to the significance of the CHIPS Act to Michigan jobs.”
“Over 25 years in public service, I’d by no means do one thing to denigrate somebody’s religion,” Whitmer mentioned in her assertion. “I’ve used my platform to face up for folks’s proper to carry and follow their private non secular beliefs. My staff has spoken to the Michigan Catholic Convention. What was alleged to be a video in regards to the significance of the CHIPS Act to Michigan jobs, has been construed as one thing it was by no means supposed to be, and I apologize for that.”
In response to the video, Whitmer has obtained criticism from a number of Catholic teams who’ve labeled it as “offensive.”
As Breitbart Information’s Thomas D. Williams beforehand reported, Paul A. Lengthy, the president of the Michigan Catholic Convention, issued a press release that the skit was “an all-too-familiar instance of an elected official mocking non secular individuals and their practices.”
The skit particularly imitates “the posture and gestures of Catholics receiving the Holy Eucharist, during which we imagine that Jesus Christ is really current,” mentioned Paul A. Lengthy, president of the Michigan Catholic Convention.
“It isn’t simply distasteful or ‘unusual;’ it’s an all-too-familiar instance of an elected official mocking non secular individuals and their practices,” Lengthy mentioned on behalf of the bishops, including that “whether or not or not insulting Catholics and the Eucharist was the intent, it has had an offensive affect.”
In a assertion on Friday, Invoice Donohue, the President of the Catholic League, issued a press release blasting Whitmer for the video, stating that Whitmer “insulted Catholics nationwide.”
Whitmer “insulted Catholics nationwide when she deliberately ridiculed the Eucharist in a video,” Donohue wrote. “The quick video was posted by podcaster Liz Plank on her Instagram account. Whitmer, who’s carrying a Harris-Walz hat, is standing above Plank, who’s kneeling in entrance of her. Plank opens her mouth and Whitmer locations a Dorito chip on her tongue, mocking the Eucharist.”
Donohue added that there was “no solution to perceive this stunt aside from as an expression of classic anti-Catholic bigotry.”
CatholicVote additionally criticized Whitmer in a submit on X, questioning “how else” the video might “be interpreted aside from mockery of Catholics and the sacrament of Holy Communion.”
