Please Let your REPRESENTATIVE know your OPPOSITION to this bill: HR 3962
(202)224-3121
or http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt
Another exercise in futility, but I felt a little better having put my opposition to the whole Health Care scheme on record.
Come and get me for the re-education camp!
IF this is true i.e. that the US Bishops renounce the Pelosi-OBama healthcare bill - they are way more than a day late and dollar short. If, as I suspect, they are merely voicing objection to parts of it. They are not sincere. I am NOT Catholic bashing, just calling the majority of our Bishops out as hypocrites and abortion enablers if not supporters.
"Passing this amendment allows the House to meet our criteria of preserving the existing protections against abortion funding in the new legislation" the bishops wrote in a letter to individual members...."
An endorsement? More disinformation, if you ask me. Even the two sentences it quotes only says that the Bill thus amended meets one criterion (not funding abortion.) What did they say in the rest of the letter? And who signed it? When? On whose authority?
The bishops had other criteria (conscience protection, not only with regard to abortion, but also euthanasia, infanticide, physician-assisted suicide, "terminal sedation" or whatever the current euphemisms may be), and those have not been addressed.
Moreover, these criteria (and others), even if met, wouldn't result in a USCCB endorsement, it would result in their withdrawing their objection, i.e. at best a neutral stance. IIRC.
The other side lies continuously. Keep that in mind. But keep me posted.