McCain Catholic Outreach Spokesman Criticized

The Arizona Republic reported last week that at least three religious groups have called on John McCain to remove Deal W. Hudson from McCain's national Catholic outreach group. In 1994, Hudson resigned a tenured position at Fordham University after he was accused of having sex with a freshman student. A member of McCain's steering committee said that Catholics reject Hudson as a moral arbiter. In 2004, Hudson left George W. Bush's re-election campaign after the Fordham incident was publicized. However the McCain campaign has been resisting the calls for Hudson's ouster.