Posted on 02/09/2012 11:46:23 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
No Democratic president ever picked a fight with the Catholic Church in quite the way that Barack Obama has. One of the first things that Jimmy Carter did when he came into office was to scrap federal funding for abortions,... Even Bill Clinton – the “sex president” – supported some limits on partial birth abortion [snip]
Yet Obama’s attempt to force Catholic employees to provide contraception coverage in employee healthcare plans has united the entire Church establishment – Left and Right – against him. And this is the establishment that garlanded him with honours three years ago at Notre Dame University... Bishops, conservative and liberal, are now a single voice in their disgust with the administration’s move. The scale of Left-wing outrage is astonishing. Even the columnist EJ Dionne – the Polly Toynbee of American Catholics – complained that “progressive” Catholics who had put their reputations on the line to support Obamacare had been “thrown under the bus.”
Why is the Church so agitated, the liberal press asks? After all, the majority of Catholic women use some form of contraception... [snip]
The answer is that Obama’s diktat violates the American principle of freedom of conscience.
Imagine that you’ve been happily wearing a neck tie since the age of thirteen (imagine you are Mitt Romney). Then, one day, a government bureaucrat knocks on the door to tell you that it’s now the law of the land that you have to wear a neck tie, 24/7. The first reaction of any freedom loving, self-governing individual would be to tear the neck tie off (and maybe use it to throttle the bureaucrat).[snip]
And what is astonishing is the brute determination of Obama to get this one through. Barack Obama loves birth control. Freaking loves it. {snip]
...even basically full birth abortion.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
"Barack Obama has decided he doesn't need Catholic votes."
The whole article is a snorting good read from a conservative Brit, and deserves to be enjoyed (if that's the word) in its entirely.)
This mandate is unconstitutional and can NOT be enforced.
Let’s evaluate Satan’s commitment to Separation of Church and State.
This 1947 creation of the USSC has been used to throttle Religious opinion, and keep God from public view.
Let’s see how well the concept might be employed to keep the State from compelling Church to act against conscience and teaching.
About 99% of the comments at the Telegraph site support Obama in this. Several made the comment that Catholic women who use contraception will probably vote for Obama.
The "this little part ain't right" going on right down is very clever...
THE WHOLE THING...Obamacare...HAS TO GO!!!!!
People forget that the bar has been lowered in the Obama administration. Integrity? Adherence to the Constitution? 4 million dollar vacations, separate planes for Michelle and the dog? Get the message? Obama doesn’t care one iota about anything but his Marxist protocols. We don’t know who this pretender in the White House is, do we? Elect this freakshow for another term and war will be on our shores. Obama is easily the worst presidente’ we’ve ever had, a true America hater. A vicious racist whose smirk gives away his innermost thoughts. You know this guy is rotten to the core when you see that “screw you” smirk on his face. Obama goes or the country goes, the choice is that simple.
Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.
well, 1st the Church, should give back the 501(c)3
EXEMPTIONS...that’s what gets them this kind of trouble
when they excepted them they give the govrnment
the green light to TELL them what to say and how to conduct
business! Don’t cha think?
well, 1st the Church, should give back the 501(c)3
EXEMPTIONS...that’s what gets them this kind of trouble
when they excepted them they give the govrnment
the green light to TELL them what to say and how to conduct
business! Don’t cha think?
EWTN just announced today, they are sueing the Federal Government over this.
What the heck makes you think that paying taxes instead of having their charitable status, would make them any less susceptible to government intrusion?
I DID not say it would........but when you fall for
the government line you get what you get.....a church is
suppose to BE CHARITIBLE by nature NOT by decree from
the gov.
I DID not say it would........but when you fall for
the government line you get what you get.....a church is
suppose to BE CHARITIBLE by nature NOT by decree from
the gov.”
Who issues marriage licenses? The Bureau of Sacramental Affairs?
The majority voted him in. Let them live with him.
Y'know, it's a pretty impressive list of American institutions and traditions...
Christianity, in general
Utilities
Military
The so-called "rich" (i.e., the middle class)
Home ownership
Banks
Automobiles
Petroleum exploration, refining and distribution
Mining industry Farmers
...........................
And the list goes on...
This has nothing to do with 501(c)(3) exemptions.
The Obamacare mandate applies to every employer in the USA who offers insurance to their employees, and every insurance provider in the USA.
Obama wants to frame this as "Catholic bishops vs contraceptive-using Catholic women." Gotta admit it's a brilliant tactic of misdirection.
What it really is, is (1) the Government's successful push to tell every person in America what kind of insurance coverage they can and cannot get to care for their very own bodies, because "all YR health care R belong to us"; and
(2)the Government's rapidly developing power to tell every church in America what kind of beliefs it will be permitted to preach and to live by, and
(3) the absolute supremacy of the State over every individual and every institution in civil society.
#1 necessarily and swiftly entails #2 and #3, but you couldn't tell that to the geniuses at the USCCB 2 or 3 years ago.
Now they're shaking the cobwebs out of their heads and muttering, "Whoa. Something about 'subsidiarity'..."
But it's a little late.
"Progressive Catholic" is an oxymoron ... and yes, there are a lot of oxymoronic people.
Aside from that, what did this bimbo expect? Barky 0zero throws everybody under the bus eventually.
Here's two more.
The Constitution
Babies
............................
What else?
The sacrament of abortion shall not be blasphemed.
Christianity would be at the top of the list.
Beautiful.
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