[8] In 2009, Catholics United ran radio ads featuring actor Martin Sheen in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.
"[12] In March 2010, former director Chris Korzen appeared on CNN to challenge the Archdiocese of Washington, DC's protest of a law requiring employers to grant benefits to same-sex partners.
[15] In 2012 the organization received most of its operational budget that year from an LGBT rights activist foundation run by influential multi-millionaire Tim Gill.
[4] Sandy Newman, president and founder of the Voices for Progress, wrote in an email to John Podesta: "I have not thought at all about how one would 'plant the seeds of the revolution,' or who would plant them."
"[4][16][17] Raymond Arroyo responded to the much-publicized Podesta e-mails, that he thought; "It makes it seem like you're creating organizations to change the core beliefs of the church," he said.