20-October-2004 -- Catholic News Agency
NEW YORK, USA, October 20 (CNA) - The Ford
Foundation has established a new policy, barring beneficiaries from engaging in
any activity that "promotes violence, terrorism, bigotry, or the
destruction of any state."
But the Catholic League says this policy is hypocritical since the foundation
has been funding at least one anti-Catholic group for decades.
"The Ford Foundation has long violated its newly established
restrictions by lavishly funding the most anti-Catholic organization in the
United States, Catholics for a Free Choice," Catholic League president
William Donohue pointed out.
"Thus, for the Ford Foundation to now insist that its recipients
forswear a commitment to bigotry is rank hypocrisy," said Donohue.
"Catholics for a Free Choice has been bashing the Catholic Church for
decades, and could not do so without the support of the Ford Foundation."
The American Civil Liberties Union has decided to reject funding from the
Ford Foundation because it objects to the new restrictions.