Posted on 01/30/2012 3:07:17 PM PST by KeyLargo
January 30, 2012
Losing the Catholic Vote? By Carol Platt Liebau 1/30/2012
The Obama administration has picked a fight that is downright wrong -- and may have real political implications for the President's reelection.
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued an edict that, under ObamaCare, effectively all employers will be FORCED to offer health insurance that covers subsidized contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. This means that Catholic employers (like hospitals and universities) and other Christian entities would be forced to contravene their own teachings in order to provide their employees with health insurance.
The Catholic Church is so outraged at the decision (and understandably so) that its bishops distributed a strongly worded letter that was read yesterday at Catholic masses across the country. (The administration's policy is so shockingly extreme that, yes, even EJ Dionne -- one of the President's most fervent apologists -- has rebuked him for it).
Note that this isn't the first time that the Obama administration has shown appalling disregard for the sensibilities of religious people. In a recent case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the position adopted by the Obama Justice Department, under which the administration was trying to claim for itself (rather than religious institutions) the ability to determine which employees should be considered "ministers" of any particular religion.
Although the letter that was read from pulpits across America yesterday may indicate the existence of a troubling pattern on the part of the administration, it also threatens to sensitize otherwise disengaged people of faith to participate in the 2012 elections. And keep in mind that Catholics are the biggest "swing faith" in the country, and contributed mightily to the Republican blowout in 2010.
Carol Platt Liebau is an attorney, political commentator and guest radio talk show host based near New York. Learn more about her new book, "Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Hurts Young Women (and America, Too!)" here.
LOL, anything to keep conservatives from learning the truth they need to find a solution to the Catholic vote.
I think the least of our concerns is the Evangelical vote, since they are the most right wing voters in America, and vote conservative at about the rate that Jews vote liberal.
The voting block that we need to find the key to changing, is the Catholic vote.
We do know though, that all Catholic voters, are Catholic, including the 54% of Catholics who voted for Obama.
Now you are singing my song, American Catholic militancy, a more aggressive, unyielding conservative American presence in the Catholic church.
BTTT!
Unfortunately my entire Catholic family voted for this jerk. I, the outsider, born-again Christian was the only one who did not.
This is only the beginning. Wait until HHS tries to force Catholic hospitals and facilities into performing abortions under the threat of withdrawing Medicare and Medicaid funding.
This is only the beginning. Wait until HHS tries to force Catholic hospitals and facilities into performing abortions under the threat of withdrawing Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Correction: Losing the "Catholic Vote"?
Liebau and her headline editor should know better.
Repeatedly citing unscientific and highly unreliable exit polls as if they provided metaphysical certitude of anything is indicative of how truly ignorant you are.
You do recognize that the Catholics who voted for Obama are Catholics don’t you?
Newsmax
Romney Won’t Get the Catholic Vote
Monday, January 30, 2012 11:37 AM
By: Bob Reilly
Old guard Republicans are in a state of near hysteria over the prospect of Newt Gingrich being the Republican candidate against President Barack Obama.
They say he is unelectable because of his volatile personality and problematic past. The answer to this problem, they say, is the candidacy of Gov. Mitt Romney. He should be the Republican candidate because he is “electable.”
http://www.newsmax.com/PrintTemplate.aspx?nodeid=425976
Catholic Church circulates anti-Obama letter
Monday, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:59 PM EST
http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/01/30/catholic-church-circulates-anti-obama-letter/
I was wondering why last Sunday the homely seemed political. The priest kept saying that Hope and Change was not the change promised and that it was an empty promise. It was the most political I have ever heard in my local church. They tactfully supported Obama in 2008 with all the promises of a more just world and helping the poor. I guess the church “leaders” finally figured out what we already knew Obama is a false prophet.
The incumbent Democrat president has possibly lost the Catholic vote once before in American history, and that may have been Jimmy Carter against Ronald Reagan in 1980 where polls give a range for the Reagan Catholic vote of 46% up to 50%, anyway, it was close to a 50/50 split.
Will Catholics turn against Obama, I don’t know, but it isn’t certain whether Newt or Romney would do better.
I personally think that Newt would be worth a couple or a few points once they learned that his is a Catholic. I do think that if Newt can get in, that he would aggressively work to move the Catholic vote to the right and that 8 years later, they would be more conservative.
That is very good news, we need to see more of that.
This whole thing could be turned around, and I think that a President Newt would try to drive that in the Catholic church.
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