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Obama Administration Picks a Fight With Catholics
The Washington Post ^ | 1/20/12 | Patrick J. Reilly

Posted on 01/23/2012 6:52:25 AM PST by marshmallow

The Obama administration has chosen to ignore the First Amendment and add insult to injury for Catholics whose schools, hospitals and charities help make this nation great. Now the real fight begins.

Religious leaders had feared the worst from Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her Department of Health and Human Services, which since September has been considering whether to exempt Catholic and other religious employers from a regulation mandating insurance coverage for sterilization and contraceptives, including some that cause abortion.

But on Friday afternoon, Sebelius announced the bad news in the most offensive way possible. Refusing even the smallest compromise with religious employers, she simply gave them an extra year to comply with the law.

“This decision was made after very careful consideration, including the important concerns some have raised about religious liberty,” Sebelius wrote in a brief statement from HHS. “I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services.”

Her attempt to appear compromising is absurd. What “balance” could Sebelius possibly mean? The HHS regulations include the narrowest exemption for religious employers ever proposed by the federal government, and even more restrictive than such exemptions in most states.

Any pretense of seeking “common ground” with faithful Catholics--which President Obama offered during his much-protested appearance at the University of Notre Dame nearly three years ago--has been stripped away. Only weeks ago, it seemed that the White House might be more sympathetic than Sebelius to the concerns of Catholic and other religious leaders. President Obama met personally with Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, reportedly assuring a good outcome to the HHS debacle. But now one newspaper is reporting that the president himself gave the bad news to Archbishop Dolan on Friday morning, something akin to.........

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TOPICS: Catholic; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: bhohhs; catholicvote; proaborts; sebelius
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1 posted on 01/23/2012 6:52:29 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

She has just proven herself to be completely out of communion with the Catholic Church. If her bishop does nothing about this, it’ll be a shame.


2 posted on 01/23/2012 6:54:41 AM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: al_c

Back to Topeka with her...


3 posted on 01/23/2012 6:56:03 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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To: marshmallow

All to be overturned next year. Good riddance to F-ing libs everywhere. You’re finished.


4 posted on 01/23/2012 6:59:42 AM PST by ILS21R (Never give up.)
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To: marshmallow

Preventing pregnancies is NOT a function of government.


5 posted on 01/23/2012 7:04:35 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: marshmallow

Totalitarians placing demands/mandates on collectives. Become the happy face for totalitarians, pay the jizya, be subjugated and do as your told.


6 posted on 01/23/2012 7:15:24 AM PST by PGalt
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To: marshmallow
Now the real fight begins.

The fight is OVER. You lost. We lost. You knew these were totalitarians long ago.

What “balance” could Sebelius possibly mean?

Read the adjective. It's the "appropriate" balance. It's socialist/totalitarian speak for DON'T QUESTION ME.

Wake up and smell the coffee. The fight is OVER. The war continues. Prepare.

7 posted on 01/23/2012 7:25:27 AM PST by PGalt
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To: al_c

Democrats hate the Catholic Church; its in their DNA.


8 posted on 01/23/2012 7:27:17 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: al_c

9 posted on 01/23/2012 7:30:37 AM PST by nikos1121
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To: marshmallow

THIS is a fight that the Obama Administration is going to lose.

There is a growing number of people who pray and fast daily for this nation. Several of those people have been asking the Blessed Mother of Jesus to intercede with the following prayer: “O Blessed Virgin, Mother of the Savior, scatter the forces of evil so they are not engrossed in darkness but can come to light.”

Even the ‘cafeteria Catholics’ are beginning to SEE where this administration wants to take us.


10 posted on 01/23/2012 7:39:20 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: Rich21IE
"Democrats hate the Catholic Church; its in their DNA."

And yet, Catholics keep voting for democrats (except this Catholic).

11 posted on 01/23/2012 7:39:43 AM PST by anoldafvet
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To: marshmallow

Her original intent was to limit couples to one child so enforcing this mandate is a compromise in her eyes.


12 posted on 01/23/2012 7:40:00 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Sacajaweau

No is paying for the destruction and death of its unborn citizens.


13 posted on 01/23/2012 7:46:29 AM PST by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: anoldafvet

And neither will this Catholic.

I made that mistake.

Once.

NEVER AGAIN!


14 posted on 01/23/2012 7:47:36 AM PST by NCC-1701 (In Memphis on January 20, 2009, pump price were $1.49. We all know what happened after that.)
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To: georgia peach

NOR....


15 posted on 01/23/2012 7:49:13 AM PST by georgia peach (georgia peach)
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To: anoldafvet

Those aren’t real “Roman Catholics”; they’re CINO’s, “Catholics in Name Only”.


16 posted on 01/23/2012 8:03:01 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: georgia peach

This along with FOCA is the Liberal plan to seize the Catholic Hospitals. 25% of all hospital beds in America are in buildings with the word Saint on them. The Bishops will close them before capitulating to abortion. Obama will call this a “crisis”.


17 posted on 01/23/2012 8:06:38 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: marshmallow
Sorry Obummer, but ex post facto laws are illegal-

The Catholic Church was practising their religion here in America since 1635.

Article I of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the passage of ex post facto laws, viz.,

``Section 9.: No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.``

18 posted on 01/23/2012 8:15:03 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (Obummer is a Pope ?? Who knew?)
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To: marshmallow

Ignore the powers that be. Do it your way.

And sue them. There is a very strong 1st amendment case to be made here.


19 posted on 01/23/2012 8:35:16 AM PST by Grunthor (I don't vote for Democrats, this includes Mitt Romney.)
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To: Rich21IE

Catholics, who accounted for about a quarter of the electorate, supported Obama, at 54 percent, over McCain, at 45 percent.


20 posted on 01/23/2012 8:38:31 AM PST by Grunthor (I don't vote for Democrats, this includes Mitt Romney.)
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