WASHINGTON,
D.C.--U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky urged the House leadership to make available
all records relating to the selection process of the House Chaplain.
In a letter to all House Members Schakowsky wrote “I believe that our constituents
deserve real assurances that religious prejudice was not an issue and will
never be an issue in House deliberations.”
Earlier
this week, the Chicago City Council unanimously adopted a resolution stating
the council’s concern that the rejection of Reverend Timothy O’Brien as
House Chaplain “has raised significant questions about the fairness of
the process and whether or not old hard-line anti-Catholic sentiments still
reverberate in the halls of the U.S. Congress.”
Reverend
O’Brien was the preferred choice of most members on the bipartisan selection
panel. Still, the House leadership decided against selecting him
as the new House Chaplain. |