Posted on 02/09/2012 8:48:27 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
We’ve covered the hot debate raging between the Obama administration and the Catholic Church on this site. And we’ve covered plenty of arguments for and against the Obamacare mandate that businesses, through their insurers, offer free contraception. But we haven’t covered a defense quite like this. It goes like this: “Maybe the founders were wrong to guarantee free Exercise of religion,” but they did and the administration needs to respect that.
Wait, what?
That‘s what Washington Post editor Melinda Henneberger told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews last night while defending Catholics. Here’s the full quote:
“Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment but that is what they did and I don’t think we have to choose here.” She went on to to say that “…What [the Obama administration is] doing is guaranteeing people, you know, these Catholic outfits and others can’t serve the populations that they were called to serve.” That’s a good point. But the comment about the founders seems startling. Newsbusters may have put it best when it said, “Henneberger’s larger point was defensive of the Catholic Church and of religious liberty. However, her comment on the First Amendment was poorly phrased.”
You can watch the segment at The Blaze.
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Why are we surprised? The world is not our friend.
“Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment but that is what they did and I don’t think we have to choose here.”
Henneberger was the scribe that was defending the Catholic Church, you should have heard mellisa {the other airhead} she wanted to bring back boiling oil for the Bishops.
Mine was a joke...if I were any more relaxed, I’d be napping.
One of the things that’s lost in this debate is that religious organizations are called by their missions to create charities that house and feed the poor, that heal the sick, that educate the young, that support wholesome recreational activities, and so on. The administration and IRS seek to deny that such activities are religious in nature. The IRS only exempts church expenses. The administration seeks to make a distinction between maintaining the aspect of the church that relates to the building and the sermons. A church is much more than that, and so long as it is not a commercial, for profit enterprise, there is no basis to exempt the church but not the hospital. They are all part of the same religious expression.
“Maybe the Founding Fathers were right about tar and feathers.”
I’ll bring some torches and a couple of pitchforks. Where’s the party?
This is no party...this is war. Some folks may be reluctant to realize it for what it is, but our freedoms and liberty are on the line, and we must call it what it is..war.
I got a chuckle from the pic on your profile page.
Wow. this editor and Justice Ginsberg and Obama and the left pretty much openly hate Christianity. At least in the old days these types pretended otherwise.
I stopped giving leftists the benefit of the doubt long long ago.
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