The author makes good points, but this will be about money. When local govts are faced with the cost of replacing Catholic services the call for Obama’s retreat will be overwhelming. If the bishops stay the course they will win and with bright engaging leaders like Tim Dolan they will not be fooled again and will be on guard.
I'm not at all sure that is true, any longer. The Cloward-Piven Strategy involves increasing state welfare until the system is bankrupted. Then the Communists step in and pick up the pieces.
Closing down schools and hospitals used to be a credible threat. I don't think it is any longer. I think the Catholic Church has to keep these institutions open, and simply refuse to obey these illegal, unconstitutional orders. That may, unfortunately, involve things like self-insurance, since it looks as if Obama will either destroy the insurance companies or corrupt them to the point where no decent person can use them any longer.
We have reached the point of open warfare, and we need to start hitting back at the politicians.
Should the Church lose its tax-exempt status, then it should point out that every four years a Democrat candidate for POTUS has stood in the pulpit of a black church on election day and demanded that people for for him, while the congregation sings halelullia Jimmy Carter did it. LBJ did it. Bill Clinton did it. And Barack Obama will predictably do it. Then there will be buses in the parking lots to take all the congregations to the polls. Catholic churches should point this out, and start doing the same. And so should the conservative Evangelical churches do it, when the time comes. Which seems to be now.
You made an excellent point: it IS all about money, forcing the Catholic services to provide something they cannot do, according to faith, WILL force local gubmints to replace the services.
BOY will the taxpayers squawk!
Why should the TAXPAYERS pay for abortion and contraception for any/all females? It's like asking the TAXPAYERS to pay people's doctor bills.
We engender generation after generation of pathetic people born and raised (not brought up, like children, but RAISED, like vegetables and animals) with their hands out for the government hand-out.