Catholic League Poised To Go To War With Obama Over Mandatory Birth Control Payments

CBS News ^ | February 6, 2012 11:00 PM

[1010RD]

Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers, including religious institutions, to pay for birth control.

As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reports, it could affect the presidential elections.

Catholic leaders are furious and determined to harness the voting power of the nation’s 70 million Catholic voters to stop a provision of President Barack Obama’s new heath car reform bill that will force Catholic schools, hospitals and charities to buy birth control pills, abortion-producing drugs and sterilization coverage for their employees.

“Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church,” said Catholic League head Bill Donohue.

Already Archbishop Timothy Dolan has spoken out against the law and priests around the country have mobilized, reading letters from the pulpit. Donohue said Catholic officials will stop at nothing to put a stop to it.

“This is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets,” Donohue said.

But pro-choice groups said they will fight the church and fight for the right of employees of Catholic institutions to have birth control and other services paid for.

“The Catholic hierarchy seems to be playing a cynical game of chicken and they don’t seem to care that the health and well being of millions of American woman are what’s at stake here,” National Abortion Rights Action League President Andrea Miller said.

[Chickensoup]

Links about Christsian Healthcaare ministries and their different plans. Important that we all do not buy into just one way to do things.

http://mychristiancare.org/medi-share/

http://www.biographyministries.com/christian-healthcare-ministries.html

http://bikersforjesus.com/CNL/SharingCHMGuide.pdf

http://www.mennonitemutual.com/

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/018972.html

http://www.samaritanministries.org/

http://www.churchcentral.com/article/2758/Christians-sharing-health-care-costs-alternative-to-insurance

[ex-snook]

"Recall that Revelations opens with a list of infractions committed by the churches and an asking for them to turn away from their failings."

Of interest, the area of the 7 churches is no longer Christian. St Paul did great work but it did not last. I just wonder if the Bible was Canonized a few hundred year later, would Revelations even be in the Bible telling about Churches that were no more.

[ArrogantBustard]

We all know the Knights of Columbus as a fraternal social service organization. And rightly so.

But ...

KofC was founded as (and continues to be) an insurance company.

[A.A. Cunningham]

I am a practicing Catholic. But I have always thought the Church's stand on birth control is extreme and stupid.

Correction: I am pretending to be a practicing Catholic. But I have always thought the Church's stand on birth control is extreme and stupid due to my own ignorance and poor catechesis.

I would bet that you've never read Humanae Vitae.

[kearnyirish2]

It is just taking so long, and souls are meeting their judgment every second.

It is slowly getting better, and I hope this split with Obama gets a lot of people off the fence.

[1010RD]

Nobody would dare because everyone believes the Muslims would do violence. Christians are known wimps. It’s just what you believe and not worth fighting or dying over...