This is retarded.
The law does not apply just to Catholics. It applies to all except Muzzies. (Their “charity” does have a religious purpose, making them exempt)
You have divided us on this issue now. Since I am not a Catholic this “attack on the Catholic Church” must not concern me. Apparently the mandate applies to everyone but Muzzies though.
Somewhere along the way someone got confused.
Yes, it applies to all but only Catholics now take a principled stand against contraception. So you and others think, if the law is framed in terms of “contraception,” that it doesn’t apply to them. I pointed this out when this first surfaced two weeks ago on an FR thread.
They want to divide non-Catholic opponents of abortion from Catholic opponents of abortion. Their method is to call most abortions “contraception” (using the theory that until implantation it’s not an abortion because there’s no pregnancy; pregnancy only begins with implantation. Abortion terminates pregnancy only, so anything before implatation is contraception.
That’s how they can with a straight face say that requiring the Ella pill (chemical abortifacient similar to RU-486) is merely “contraception” and thus required to be provided free of charge.
They kill two birds with one stone, since so many Catholics have long defied the Church on contraception. So unthinking Catholics think these regs only require contraception and the bishops are overreacting (Commonweal editors said as much), when in fact the regs require abortion.
They want to split the Church and create a Patriotic American Catholic pro-contraception but anti-abortion church and leave the old stick-in-the-mud “extremist” bishops and their “pathetic, bedraggled followers” in the dust.
They want to create a “German-Christians Catholic Church” led by Sister Keehan and their ilk (nun in charge of Catholic Hospital Association who said the “accommodation” was acceptable) that will back the government on abortion (contraception) as “caring for women’s health”; next will be euthanasia, gay rights etc.
It also prepares the way to portray Santorum as a Taliban-extremist Catholic unlike those other “reasonable Commonweal Catholics.”
Moreover, it’s not being reported, but the USCCB website today points out that the “accommodation” that was hyped so much Friday was quietly dropped later Friday night. The regs that actually are in force are the original regs, not the so-called “accommodated” regs. Obama is a total, brazen Liar, spawn of the Father of Lies.
The whole “accommodation” was a total head feint. And the MSM ignores the fraud.
Do you know who it was?