Posted on 03/16/2014 1:01:07 PM PDT by marshmallow
The National Coalition of American Nuns has announced their support for women’s right to access contraceptives under the Affordable Care Act as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the historic Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood cases. While the plaintiffs in these cases are Mennonites and evangelical Christians, opposition to the contraceptive mandate was largely spearheaded by the Catholic bishops. Several key cases of Catholic non-profits, such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, are making their way through the lower courts and may well end up in the Supreme Court themselves.
“NCAN is dismayed that the Little Sisters of the Poor, the University of Notre Dame and other Catholic organizations are challenging the Affordable Care Act. Spurred on by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops these organizations are attempting to hold hostage all women by refusing insurance to them for contraceptives,” said the 2,000-member group in a statement.
“This has gotten out of hand,” Sister Donna Quinn, head of NCAN, told RD. “It isn’t ‘faith and freedom’ when reproductive autonomy isn’t extended by the Catholic Church to women. Now we have other Christian religions seeing what the bishops are doing and saying we will do likewise. It isn’t freedom when a woman can be held hostage by the owner of a business.”
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Another communist clergy group?
Dorothy Day would not be pleased. Day was against welfare, um, I mean, government assistance.
Lack of free birth control means you are a hostage??
These people are not Christians, must be another fake group pretending to represent Christians, a lot of them on the left’
You’re telling me that before Obamacare women didn’t have a right to access contraception? That’s just ludicrous. It’s an absurdity.
“It isn’t freedom when a woman can be held hostage by the owner of a business.”
Show me how the government has the legitimate power to force a private business to do anything, you twit.
Fixing the title
Catholic CINO Nuns Back Obamacare Contraception Access
This is one of the reasons, Pope Benedict sent people to clean out the convents....it would seem it didn't work as well as it did with the seminaries.
Why do they call themselves Catholic nuns . . . ? Pathetic. Like having homosexuals in the military and boy scouts and girl scouts . . . and we have to put up with these lesbian heretics. Please go away.
They’re no more Catholic than Obama is an American
Hard lefties in favor of abortion and women priests. Under indiction. (?) Wanted Bush and Cheney impeached. nuff said.
Wow, there really is a ‘Nunzilla’.
Glarb.
From Sagepub:
National Coalition of American Nuns
Horacio Sierra
The National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN) was founded in 1969 in the wake of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council and in tandem with the social justice issues percolating throughout the American landscape at the time. The organization’s main mission is to study and speak out on issues that deal with peace, social justice, human rights, and women’s equality within the Catholic Church and society at large. NCAN did not form with the help of the church hierarchy and is not officially sanctioned by it. NCAN’s advocacy of issues such as the ordination of women, an inclusive attitude toward gay men and lesbians within the church
I agree!
:)
“reproductive autonomy”
-Sister Donna Quinn
Sounds more like an ideological feminist than a Catholic nun.
“People become lost amidst the errors or illusions of aberrant ideologies”
-Pope Benedict XVI, 2006
This reminds me of an old saying: After Vatican II, the nuns took off their habits, put on their lay clothes, and went off to convert the world. Guess who got converted?
The stupid, it burns.
The National Coalition of Nuns is not exactly Catholic. They represent only 500 nuns, mostly dissidents who have left the Catholic church. The featured item on the web page is tickets for their 40th anniversary, which was in 2009.
Did you misspell “Morgana”?
I was looking for some indication this was satire.
Apparently it’s not.
How many actual nuns are members?
Did I? Ha ha
Stupid iPhone
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