Robert “Eric” McFadden is the founder of Catholics for Kerry and was involved with the controversial (and heretical from a traditional Catholic perspective) Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. McFadden also worked as the head of Clinton’s Catholic outreach program last year during the election, and was Ohio Governor Ted Strickland’s director of Faith Based Initiatives for some time.

McFadden was also a sexual degenerate who was pimping out teenage girls on Craigslist:

A middle-aged man was arrested and taken into custody by Columbus police officers for crimes related to online prostitution. Robert E. McFadden, 46, allegedly traded information relating to online prostitutes and escorts who plied their trade on the city streets. Charges in the pending case also state a 17-year-old minor was one of the “sex for hire” participants. Law enforcement officers state McFadden reportedly offered raffle tickets for $10 each in order to win and evening with a prostitute.

McFadden allegedly created reviews of individual streetwalkers and personal escorts and sold the reviews of their performances online. The “hooker review” website has been pulled from the World Wide Web, leaving many searching aimlessly for a glimpse of the X-rated performance chart. According to the details available about McFadden’s lascivious love low-down, customers could post comments about their personal experiences with the sex workers. Possible child pornography charges may be forthcoming due to the age of at least one of the prostitutes.

Yowza. Someone’s going to be doing like a million Hail Marys. McFadden apparently made a living being the official Democratic Party Catholic as this report from the Catholic News Agency ably shows:

The former director of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives for the governor of Ohio was arrested Wednesday for his involvement in an online prostitution ring.  Eric McFadden, who has also formerly served as the president of the organization Catholics for Faithful Citizenship and spokesperson for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, will face seven prostitution-related charges tomorrow in court.

Eric McFadden, 46, the former head of the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives for Governor of Ohio, Ted Strickland, was arrested this morning and faces two counts of promoting prostitution, two counts of pandering obscenity involving a minor, two counts of pandering obscenity involving a nude minor and one count of compelling prostitution, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien told the Springfield News-Sun.

The News-Sun also quoted Keith Daily, Governor Strickland’s press secretary who described the situation as “very sad, shocking and appalling.”

McFadden’s faith outreach has not been limited to the Ohio governor’s office.  In 2004, McFadden worked for Catholics for Kerry and in 2005, served as the president for the organization, Catholics for Faithful Citizenship.  In 2006, he was a spokesperson for Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and more recently, he was Hillary Clinton’s lead Catholic outreach organizer as the State Faith & Values Outreach Director during the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

According to NBC 4 in Columbus, Ohio, detectives suspect McFadden was involved in a “hooker-review” site that led to the creation of a Brewery District brothel.

Here’s how we know he was never a particularly bright man:

McFadden used complex encoded postings on Craigslist that would look like useless or corrupted data, in which he would embed the information of the woman available, the type of sex interaction she would be willing to perform and the place to meet her. Paradoxically, McFadden’s code name in his transactions was “mcfaddencatholic.”

Looking for some lefty hypocrisy?

McFadden who has been a supporter of John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama described his Catholic outreach in 2007 to PBS’ Religion and Ethics Newsweekly as giving “a voice to Catholics so they can stand up and say, ‘I am a Catholic Democrat, and I’m proud and these are the principles that I believe in.’”

Additionally, he was a member of the Knights of Columbus and reached the 4th order.  Last year, he penned a letter to the Knights of Columbus asserting that Supreme Knight Carl Anderson was leading Catholics astray by suggesting that Catholics could not vote for pro-abortion candidates.

“Carl Anderson should resign as Supreme Knight so the good work of the Knights of Columbus can continue without the stain of partisan politics,” he wrote.

While he wrote this he was hiring and pimping out underage prostitutes.

Lest you think the Liberal hypocrisy ends with him Newsbusters points out that the left-leaning Columbus-Dispatch actually scrubbed the story from their site, while The American Catholic catches Huffington Post first trying to claim McFadden was a “GOPer” until they were called out in the comments. Now party affiliation is nowhere to be found, but the Huffpo commenters are enthusiastically calling for the legalization of pimping out children.

It will come as a shock to you I’m sure to find that a person who was pimping out a teenage girl may have had a history of online sexual harassment aimed at Pro-life women. Carol McKinley puts forward the theory that Ted Strickland’s people knew McFadden was a degenerate and got rid of him just before all this broke loose. Knarfoh has examples of his postings. Pro Ecclesia has a list of comments McFadden has made on his site, which are telling.

McFadden also apparently went by the name God of Thunder. He met his victim in an online chat room, groomed her, then “raffled” her off to men.

The MSM will be bringing you all the details in the coming weeks I’m sure.

h/t RightWing Sparkle.