Posted on 03/20/2009 11:40:08 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
He garnered the majority of Catholic votes in the 2008 election, but a number of Catholic groups now say President Obama is showing a complete lack of regard for their beliefs.
They count his decisions to lift restrictions on abortion and stem cell research among the most offensive.
"As far as the Catholic church goes, there's no bigger priority for Catholics than human dignity and human life," said Cathy Ruse, senior fellow at the Family Research Council said. "And the Obama administration has just been an assault on those values again and again in just two months."
But some American Catholics support the president, saying his policies are consistent with their "mainstream" beliefs.
"President Obama has already reached out and won the Catholic vote," Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, said.
"That's what happened in the last election in spite of the very loud voices of some extreme uber-Catholics who really want to paint this black and white picture -- to engage us in this endless culture war," he said.
O'Brien, whose group supports access to contraception and abortion, said Obama presented Catholic voters with a social justice agenda they can support.
One of the four main priorities of Obama's faith-based office is to find ways to reduce the abortion rate, an attempt at common ground. But shortly after taking office, Obama lifted restrictions on federal funding of international family planning groups that perform abortions or provide information about the procedure.
Then in late February, the administration said it would rescind broad protections put in place in the waning days of the Bush administration for health workers who refuse to provide care they find objectionable on personal, moral or religious grounds.
The White House has said the administration was committed to protecting the rights of health care workers who
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Some Catholics? It should be all Catholics.
Obama has done exactly what he said he would do in the campaign. Why are these groups surprised?
What did they think they were voting for? Wishful thinking?
And Gibbs just announced that BO has been invited to give the commencement address at Notre Dame this year.
Any ND alums here on Free Republic?
Catholic doctrine is anti-Socialist and anticommunist.
However, there are far too many Socialist priests in the Church.
The Catholics that voted for Zero weren’t banking on the wholesale infanticide and Nazi-experiments this guy wishes to perpetuate. Maybe some of them will actually listen to their conscience.
And then...
O'Brien, whose group supports access to contraception and abortion...
So how does a "Catholic" group call itself "Catholic" if they reject two of the most clearly articulated positions of the church?
Sounds like the Catholics are the ONLY religion that cares about the IMMORAL things that Obama is doing......hmmmm...
No, not really. I still know a number who think that Obama should be given more time in office.
CINO.
I hope there are some huge protests.
This is a complete disgrace!
Our Deacon blistered Baraq (never mentioning him by name, just referring to “the President”) last week from the pulpit over his policies. And got a round of applause at the end.
I was proud to be a Catholic right then.
An honest journalsit would not have mentioned the group at all, but anyone having a tiny modicum of self-respect and integirty would have written:
“...heretic Jon O’Brien, president of Heretics-Posing-as-Catholics-for-Choice, said.”
I love how denominations are bred that either endemically can see the right way or can't even get a clue.
There are reasons for such problems. It is either that those churches develop people into those who can't value the right way, or those who can't value the right way are attracted to those churches.
Either way, I will stay the heck away from idiot churches and their denominations.
Yep..you read my mind.
I believe they chose to ignore what BS was saying, adopting the seamless garment idealogy. Trying to explain to these idiots that the seamless garment begins at conception and ends with natural death fell on deaf ears.
My parish is loaded with these fools who are now regretting their vote. Too late, they will have to answer for what they’ve done. Unfortunately, the rest of us will have to pay right alongside them.
However, there are far too many Socialist priests in the Church.
How is it that Socialists are so attracted to the Catholic church that they want to be leaders in it, to the extent of spending a lifetime with it? Also, how is it that in strongly Catholic countries, socialism is so strong, versus capitalism (think all of Latin America, Spain, etc.)? Countries that have Catholicism as their official religion are the worst.
I think you are misled.
That should be Former Catholics for Choice.
...some extreme uber-Catholics who really want to paint this black and white picture...
Not "uber" Catholic, just Catholic. Of all the things that the Catholic Church preaches, it is most certain on abortion and contraception. On these issues they don't do gray.
If it looked like a duck and acted like a duck, wouldn’t intelligent people think it was a duck and would continue to be a duck? These idiots were either so stupid or delusional that they thought a duck looked like the second coming of Christ.
I'm not in the least "disappointed" in him ... that would imply that I expected good behaviour from him, and did not get it.
I knew he was a pro-death SOB from the beginning.
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