Posted on 01/31/2012 5:10:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Catholic Church has taken a rather strong stand in opposing the Obama administration's requirement that the church provide contraceptive medicine and treatments as a required component of Obamacare. Apparently the administration is in accord with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in shrugging off concerns about the "conscience thing" that has forced the Catholic Church to denounce this policy from the pulpit during Mass on this past Sunday all over America.
The government is requiring the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, and the congregants who are devout Catholics, to fund such contraceptive medicine for all lay employees of Catholic grammar schools, high schools, colleges and universities and for all of the Catholic Church's hospitals and any other church operation that employs lay people across the nation, regardless of their strong opposition on religious grounds.
The Church's stance on this issue is admirable, but not nearly dramatic enough; nor is it something that Obama and his merry band of Liberal-Progressive-Democrats would worry about. Right now they can just give a collective yawn, and assume that Catholics, a traditional Democrat voting block, will continue to vote for anyone with (D) after their name.
This response is particularly valid when they know that the IRS and the Department of Justice would jump all over the church if there was a "Don't Vote for Obama" sermon given from the pulpit. No church of any denominations is allowed to make such overt political endorsements under the threat of losing their tax-exempt status.
The Church has a way to seriously threaten the administration and still not lose their tax exempt status. I'm surprised that it hasn't already been voiced somewhere in the media, considering how disruptive it would be to the entire nation.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Interesting idea. I suspect the Catholic leadership isn’t serious enough about this issue to shut down their schools and hospitals though. But I bet it would work.
So this is what it comes to: even a conservative columnist doesn't believe a priest has either freedom of speech or freedom of religion. What is so hard to understand about "Congress shall make no law".
Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition
I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
(D) gets 55 to 60% of the Catholic vote in the past?
Will it happen again in 2012?
Nancy Pelosi isn’t a Catholic. Her religion is the Democrat party.
On Judgement day I wouldn’t want to be standing next to her.
My understanding is that it’s not a federal mandate that they have to comply with if they cease taking federal funding.
That’s the route to go - get off the teat.
RE: On Judgement day I wouldn’t want to be standing next to her.
Why not? You’d look good in comparison :)
Judgement isn’t “on the curve”, and we’ll each be facing The Judge on our own, with the only comparison being to The Law. Of course, when He asks who will pay for these transgressions, we have Someone Who will step forward for us and say “I did”.
Liberals attribute their advocacy of “something” being done for the poor to their own righteousness.
All the better when it doesn’t personally cost them anything from their own time or wealth or effort.
Time to shrug, and then loudly explain why.
“I suspect the Catholic leadership isn’t serious enough about this issue to...”
Bishops Refuse to Comply With Obamacare Birth Control Mandate: http://www.lifenews.com/2012/01/30/bishops-refuse-to-comply-with-obamacare-birth-control-mandate
The “We will not comply” movement is growing. People ARE going to become a lot more aware of this.
just a question.. was there a general consensus in the US Catholic church leadership that “free” medical care aka obamacare was good while it was being debated?
I don’t think federal aid matters in the case of the insurance mandate. This is something that all employers have to comply with, except Obama’s buddies who have gotten waivers.
Religious organizations are not required to comply with it only if their services are provided SOLELY to members of that religion. Catholic charitable and educational services are provided to everybody; a huge number of students in Catholic school are not Catholic, for example.
That said, it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if Obama actually would be happy to see the Church get out of education, health care and other charitable work. It might be a little disruptive to shift all of those services to the state, but he’d be happy to see his arch-enemy and its influence removed from the scene.
I don’t think so...there have always been the liberals who liked the idea, but many in the Church leadership knew from the start where this would lead.
The thing that amazes me is that the Catholic liberals are now genuinely surprised by Obama’s action. Originally, I thought that they would be fine with this, because only a fool would have believed that Obama wouldn’t try to make the Church violate its principles and accept these requirements. But I guess they really were just fools, because I have read some outraged articles by them and they are genuinely surprised and they feel betrayed by their hero. How naive can you get!
The Family Research Council’s daily Washington Update quoted another’s apt analogy:
http://www.frc.org/index.cfm?f=WU12A19#update
“””[I]t would be like the government mandating that all delis, even Kosher delis, serve pork products and then justifying it by saying that protein is healthy, and many Jews don’t follow Kosher laws and many non-Jews go to those delis,” writes Michael Doughtery of Business Insider. “The law wouldn’t technically ban Jews from owning delis, but it would effectively ban their ability to run them according to their conscience.””
Your information is correct.
My husband and I have been talking lately about the fact that most Americans believe that religious persecution could never happen in the USA. They are wrong!
It’s long past time for Catholics to start voting correctly, period.
I wonder how many of my brother Knights of Columbus know that White House Adviser Henry Knox has libeled us a “Hate Group”
For Mr. Obama, who has a very faulty knowledge of American History and the entire American IDEA:
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. ...Thomas Jefferson
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