Chris Matthews Sneers: ‘If You’re Really Anti-Gay, You Become Catholic Now’

Chris Matthews appeared at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C., Monday, for a President's Day panel and sneered that Catholics are attracting bigots. While talking about Richard Nixon, the so-called Southern Strategy and racism, the Hardball host berated, “If you're really anti-gay, you become a Catholic now.” At a question and answer session after the event, I confronted him about the quote and asked him if he wished to “expand or apologize.”

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