Posted on 10/13/2011 9:38:42 PM PDT by Cronos
While other voters have been disappointed by Obama's economic failures and arrogant, ham-handed approach to everything from health care reform to the Solyndra scandal, swing-voting Catholics have special reason to feel betrayed.
In the past year, Obama's Justice Department has argued in court that defenders of traditional marriage — the most visible segment of which are observant Catholics and bishops — should be regarded in law as the equivalent of racists. His National Labor Relations Board has issued rulings against two Catholic schools, St. Xavier University in Chicago and Manhattan College in New York, saying that they are not sufficiently Catholic to warrant religious exemptions from federal labor law —a stunning breach of the precedent in which religious bodies, not government officials, decide who qualifies as a member of a particular church. Those followed a highly publicized crusade by Obama's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to punish North Carolina's Belmont Abbey College for removing contraception coverage from its employee health plans, a move the Catholic school made to conform to church doctrine.
..Among Catholics, the most egregious example of Obama's broken promise of religious tolerance is the one dominating diocesan headlines now: His administration's push for a mandate that would require Catholic institutions to violate the teachings of their church by covering contraceptives in their health care plans — including sterilization and drugs that induce abortions. ...The president's hard-line, anti-freedom stance threatens to alienate millions of Catholics, including many who disagree with their church's teachings but resent the prospect of government officials dictating which doctrines Catholic institutions may follow and which ones they must violate. For these voters and millions of their fellow travelers of other faiths, Obama's election in 2008 is looking more and more like a mistake — one they do not intend to repeat in 2012.
(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...
Fellow Catholics/Orthodox -- get the word out, a vote for this loser now is practically as good as ex-communicating yourself (as it would mean support for abortion, gay marriage, anti-Church activity etc)
Moral absolutes ping?
Any Catholic who would vote for Obama and the leftists that surround him are CINOs. They don’t understand their religion.
For the second group -- as the article states, even many who are CINOs resent gubmint interfering in religion.
Misleading just Catholics? He is misleading everyone including himself if he thinks he is getting reelected.
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I’m Catholic. I didn’t vote for him. I’ll also bet that majority of PRACTICING Catholics (opposed to cafeteria ones) didn’t vote for him the first time.
The problem is that too many clerics do follow the same path as Obama. Semi-Arians, so to speak.
Are you even Catholic/Orthodox? Didn’t you see the Catholic/Orthodox caucus tag?
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you would win your bet hands down. But, as the article points out — even the non-practicing one are ticked off that Obambi is pushing gubmint interference on the Church (like folks who don’t care about their family until outsiders push it too far) — we practicing Catholics can still get these cafeteria loons to vote for the GOP. Maybe we can also get them back to Church!
They’re human after all — and many are fools. We as laity have the duty to point out to them that they are supporting anti-Church measures and basically kick them!
“Obama is alienating Catholic voters”
And protestants, and Jews, and evangelicals...
But not the muslims, the atheists, the environmentalists (also a religion)...
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