Not exactly surprised by the regression to the standard bafflegab. Lord have mercy.
So who pays now?
Oh, come on! The details are all over the web. This isn’t 1452 and we don’t need to dispatch a courier to Rome.
Obama will not give in to religious principles. To do so he would have to reject his core belief that government has the final say in all matters, public and private. He is a tyrant. Tyrants do not back down.
Obama has hidden the peanut under another shell. The media will try to give him cover. If the Bishops reject the offer they will be denounced and castigated from ABC to CBS.
Hopefully they will have the gonads to denounce this shell game front and center. Dolan needs to go on national tv and face Stepawhashisface, Pelly, and Brian Williams...and simply say “it’s a trick and we are not going along”.
Chances are he won’t. The Bishops have taken a huge beating on the sexual scandals...and the media will denounce them as anti-woman.
We’ll see.
The Catholic church will say that this “compromise” meets with their approval and that all persons of “good conscious” should vote for OBomba....nothing new here.
Obama is a lying sack of crap. Nothing he says can be trusted. He will lure the Bishops in and destroy them. It is what he does..
Cardinal -designate Dolan is wavering.
Gimme a break Cardinal, with all due respect how did you get so far up in the heirarchy of the Church when you cannot see through this.
This is one of the most transparent scams I have ever witnessed.Buy this and you can kiss your Church Goodbye.
Sounds to me like the Bishops have already caved .
If forced to, O may make a show of “allowing” freedom of religion to the institutional church. But freedom of religion doesn’t only belong to the institutional church. Insurance company owners and stockholders and employees also have freedom of religion, and the freedom to refuse to pay for something they consider morally noxious. They also can not be forced to violate their conscience by the federal government.
Of course, in a free country, presidents don’t rule by decree in any case. A private company including an insurance company can not be forced to pay for something they do not want to pay for. Certainly not at the whim of a mere president. He’s not a king.