By Anne Hendershott, Catholic World Report, July 12, 2024
Anne Hendershott is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University in Steubenville, OH
Ambassador Scott Miller and his “husband” Tim Gill have now apparently shifted their focus to directly challenging Catholic teachings through providing huge grants to New Ways Ministry.
George Soros’ Open Society Institute is often blamed for providing funding to faux Catholic organizations—like the now-defunct Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good—in an effort to marginalize Catholic teachings on moral issues including abortion and LGBTQ issues. But a more overt and focused assault on the teaching authority of the Catholic Church is now coming from a billionaire power couple—Tim Gill and Scott Miller—who are working to discredit Church teachings on sexual morality by directly attacking the Magisterium.
President Joe Biden thought so highly of the funding these two gay philanthropists have provided for LGBTQ initiatives that he appointed Scott Miller, the co-Chair of the Board of the Gill Foundation, to be the Ambassador to Switzerland. In their most recent filing on their 990 form for the IRS, the Gill Foundation described itself as “an organization that reaches out to corporations and mainstream corporate foundations to help them understand LGBTQ issues.” ….