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CNSNews.com asked: “As an unjust law, should Americans obey it?”
Cardinal O'Malley said: “This is a very complicated issue and it’s something that the church is struggling with right now, and trying to come up with a moral analysis in order to be able to allow people to form their consciences and to go forward.”
He also said the question of whether Catholic politicians could vote for a bill that funded implementation of the regulation was "complicated."
CNSNews.com asked: “If Congress brings up a government-funding bill that funds implementation of the HHS regulation, and permits the administration to force people to buy coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, can a Catholic member of Congress vote for that bill?”
The cardinal said: “Well, Catholics must always take into account their own faith and their conscience. What we’re asking people to do is to look at the whole consequences of these. It’s a complicated issue because the Church does want people to have health insurance.
“We were one of the big promoters of universal health insurance,” Cardinal O’Malley continued, “but we wanted it to be with conscience rights and protection for human life which is the most basic right of all.”
CNSNews.com also asked: “If a member of Congress votes for a bill knowing it funds a government program that forces people into complicity with the taking of innocent life, does that make the congressman complicit in the taking of innocent life?”
Cardinal O’Malley said: “It’s a complicity but it’s not immediate, obviously. I mean, just as anyone who votes for an individual who votes for, in a very remote way -- but, you know, people’s motivation in all of these things can be very complicated and they can have different reasons for doing things, and sometimes they see what they’re doing is the lesser of two evils.
You wonder if, at their consecration as bishops, somebody takes away their brains, bones, and b ---- you know what I'm talkin' about.
Then they would be forced to take a stand instead of pretending to take a stand. And you know what that means: ostracization from their fellow liberal Democrats in and out of the clergy.
Whoopee!! Catholics get to be Protestants.