Catholics Sound Off On Kamala’s Charity Dinner Snub

American Catholics sounded off after Kamala Harris decided to skip Thursday night’s Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, an event that raises money for Catholic charities and is typically attended by both major presidential candidates.

“Kamala Harris’ snub of the Al Smith dinner is insulting, though unsurprising, considering her track record of hostility towards Catholics and people of faith,” Brian Burch, president of the Catholic Vote organization, told the Daily Caller.

Harris’ absence made her the first major party candidate to skip the event since Walter Mondale in 1984, a fact former President Trump highlighted in his remarks.

“The last Democrat not to attend this important event was Walter Mondale and it did not go very well for him. He lost 49 states and he won one. Minnesota,” Trump remarked.

Rather than attend in person, Harris sent in a pre-recorded video of her and former “Saturday Night Live” star Molly Shannon in which Shannon reprised her Catholic school girl character Mary Katherine Gallagher.

“The video made me uncomfortable, the notion of seeing a Catholic school girl unattended at the Biden White House felt unsettling even if it was an adult in a skit,” Matthew Regner, a Texas-based Catholic, told the Daily Caller.

In the video Shannon stressed the need for America to have a female leader. (RELATED: Al Smith Dinner Guests Ended Up Seeing Kamala Off-Screen After All — As A Cardboard Cut Out In Women’s Restroom)

“The only argument made for her qualifications were not on policy or experience but the fact she is a woman and therefore more compassionate which is an unsupported claim in relation to the video,” Regner told the Caller.

“It should be insulting to all women when someone implies that the main qualification for becoming the first female president is gender, rather than a woman’s professional or academic accomplishments. I want a president who’s qualified for the job, not someone who’s memorized DEI talking points,” Anna Lulis, a popular online Catholic commentator, told the Daily Caller.

Catholics condemned what they viewed as her attempt to mock the faith, and bashed her willingness to appear on sex-focused podcasts like “Call Her Daddy” over the charity dinner.

“Harris has made clear that she is an unserious candidate who prefers to appear on explicit sex podcasts and make cringe videos mocking Catholic beliefs than risk offending her radically far-left base. Catholic voters have got the message: she hates what we believe and thinks she can win without us. If history is any guide, she likely just doomed her election chances,” Branch said.

Lulis echoed those sentiments.

“Her skipping the event—while making time to appear on provocative shows like Call Her Daddy—was meant to show Catholic voters that she openly hates and disrespects our faith, making her the most anti-Catholic presidential candidate in American history,” she said.

Over half of registered Catholic voters said they would vote for Trump in a September Pew Research Center poll versus just 47 percent for Harris.

“Her snub of the traditional dinner was a risky move, considering Harris’ faltering poll numbers among Catholic voters,” Branch noted.

“I’d be hard pressed to say that any Catholic that attempts to keep the faith and is well educated on Catholic teaching would be swayed to vote for Kamala after seeing the video,” Regner concluded.