...Majority of Catholics Think Employers Should Be Required to Provide...Birth Control

Hot Air ^ | February 7, 2012

[wmfights]

•A majority (55%) of Americans agree that “employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception and birth control at no cost.” Four-in-ten (40%) disagree with this requirement.

(snip)

•Roughly 6-in-10 Catholics (58%) believe that employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception.

•Among Catholic voters, support for this requirement is slightly lower at 52%.

•Only half (50%) of white Catholics support this requirement, compared to 47% who oppose it.

•Among other religious Americans, 61% of religiously unaffiliated Americans believe that employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception, compared to only half (50%) of white mainline Protestants and less than 4-in-10 (38%) white evangelical Protestants.

[sayuncledave]

Catholic voter here. I don’t use birth control, or I wouldn’t have 5 kids. And I am completely against the weaselly HHS edict, thank you for asking.

[WPaCon]

I wouldn’t take this post at face value considering the source of it.

[wmfights]

You sow to the wind and you reap the whirlwind.

Now we will see if the 55% of RC's that voted for obama will change at the behest of their church hierarchy, or if they will disregard their hierarchy.

The media is paying a lot of attention to the RCC because they were one of the key swing votes for obama. Evangelical Christians have opposed obama from the beginning so their opposition to this and obamacare in general isn't getting much attention.

[wmfights]

Once again the evangelicals hold stronger to their principles than do the Roman Catholics.

You know the thing that is interesting about this is we do not have churches that claim to control our salvation, or that have a hierarchy that is "in charge". Yet you find Evangelical Christians are more conservative. No one in the media is talking about any of the Evangelical churches opposing obamacare because we have been fighting it from the beginning.

I think obama has made the calculation that the "social justice" teaching of the RCC will carry greater weight with RC's than the opposition of their hierarchy. Lets hope on this he's wrong.

[saradippity]

You must be kidding,I know a lot of evangelicals and quite a few have had abortions and almost to a woman use contraceptives.

I would be interested if there are evangelicals on this site who are not in favor of birth control. BTW I do know that many if not the majority of them believe abortion is wrong and not in keeping with the commandments and the respect for life that is an important part of the message that Jesus brought to us.

Where did you get the idea that evangelicals hold to their principles,and were you talking about birth control or were you bringing in a statement from left field that was meaningless regards the subject at issue?

[Salvation]

Unfortunately, the Bishops aren't agreeing with these CINOs.

Standing with the Bishops [Catholic Caucus]
Updated: *167* Bishops (More Than 90% of Dioceses) Have Spoken Out Against Obama/HHS Mandate
Updated: *153* Bishops (Over 80% of Dioceses) Have Spoken Out Against Obama/HHS Mandate
An Affront Catholics Agree On [Liberal and Conservative Catholics Against Obama Mandate]
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Catholic Military Archdiocese & Chaplains interfered with last Sunday by Pres. Obama’s Admin
The Anti-Catholic President v. the Catholic Bishops
Sen. Rubio introduces bill to reverse Obama birth control mandate
Churches balk at birth control rule - Catholics won’t comply, Bishop Kevin Rhoades says
Protestants and Jews declare to White House: We stand with Catholics
Checking the Air Outside [Bp. Zubik's follow up to Obama's “To Hell with You”]
Mohler [Southern Baptist] Says Insurance Mandate Not Just 'Catholic' Issue
An Open Letter to President Barack Obama Concerning Recent Tyranny (With Pictures!)
Lincoln bishop: prepare for 'suffering' under HHS mandate
Bishop David Zubik confronts Obama
Obama’s ‘war on the church’

Pope hits out at 'radical secularism'
‘We Will Not Comply’: Catholic Leaders Distribute Letter Slamming Obama Admin Contraceptive Mandate
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Bruskewitz: Fight Insurance Ruling [Sebelius a "bitter, fallen away Catholic"]
Letter from Archbishop John G. Vlazny on the matter of freedom of conscience and decisions by HHS
Bishop Olmsted's Letter to Catholics [Catholic Caucus]
Liberty for the Amish & Quakers but not Catholics. . .
Contraception mandate prompts Peoria bishop to instate St. Michael Prayer (Catholic Caucus)
Phoenix bishop (Olmstead): defy feds on birth control
A letter from Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr concerning HHS edict

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Bishop [Daniel Jenky] Blasts Secularist Intolerance, Calls For ‘Assertive Action’ to Defend Church
(Pittsburgh Bishop Zubik comments:) HHS delays rule on contraceptive coverage
Dolan: Natural law, not religious preference, dictates all life sacred
Religious leaders blast HHS over contraception mandate
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OBAMA’S CONTEMPT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY (mandates coverage of sterilization & contraception)
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[AliVeritas]

Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.

[Salvation]

Your 100 percent really stretches the truth. Bet you can’t find proof of that.

[Salvation]

We aren't RCs -- that tells me instantly that you are of another denomination and don't know about the 22 different rites of the Catholic Church, of which the Latin Rite is one.

This thing of Obama's is striking at the entire Catholic Church.

The Rites of the Catholic Church [Catholic Caucus]
One and Many Churches (origins of the Church)
THE RITES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH -- There are many!
(Cardinal) Newman on Rites and Ceremonies

[Antoninus]

LOL. “Catholics” or Catholics who actually attend Church? If you poll based on people who self-identify as “Catholics” without determining if the they actually practice their Faith, you have effectively skewed your poll to include people who are not Catholic.

[Kit cat]

OK 95% Cardinals and Bishops thrilled health care would be provided
to all!!!!! It has always been the Catholic way to provide services to all
regardless if comes by government. Well now the church knows what
happens when it comes by government.

[fidelis]

Take it easy— I was talking about their inclusion in this poll, not keeping them from coming to Mass. :D

[Gamecock]

You must be kidding,I know a lot of evangelicals and quite a few have had abortions and almost to a woman use contraceptives.

And I have a lot of patients who are Papists and they come to my office looking for oral contraceptives. I don't write for OCs, so they leave my office disappointed.

[Salvation]

“Regarding the debate about faith and works: It’s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.”

~C.S. Lewis

[wmfights]

S: You must be kidding,I know a lot of evangelicals and quite a few have had abortions and almost to a woman use contraceptives.

It's usually a waste of time to respond to RC's. Their arguments will usually follow the same pattern; question the validity of the source, question the characer of the source, claim the info isn't reflective of true RC's, claim that's really not what they believe said or did, and when all else fails claim others are worse.

Watching the news about this issue of govt mandated health coverage I noticed that now the govt is trying to negotiate a solution with the RCC. I think Evangelical Christians should take note that there is no attempt to include our churches, hospitals and other organizations. Lets see how great an ally the RCC is when they are given an exemption.

[smvoice]

I think it's a brilliant political move by Obama.

Want 100% of the Catholic vote in Nov.? Threaten now with the contraceptive controversy. Then give them an exemption, say, in Oct.

The great October surprise...and the RCs will fall all over themselves to vote for this "wise" and "wonderful" leader who pleased them.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

The church has the choice to get out of the hospital business and turn the buildings over to the federal government cheap as its first step (25% of all hospitals), besides the VA, in taking over all hospitals.

Interesting analysis. Well done.

[ELS]

God’s truth isn’t subject to democratic vote.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! You're in good company.

"Truth is not subject to a majority vote." - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

[metmom]

A survey conducted by a two-year old liberal think tank. Sounds super reliable.

My Catholic neighbors haven't changed their thinking in the last two years. The ones who voted dem are still planning on doing so.

It's interesting that the number of Catholics who think that employers should be required to provide .... birth control, is pretty much statistically the same numbers who voted for obama.

It seems that the church has little influence on its adherents.

[metmom]

Limit those being polled to PRACTICING Catholics (and exclude Catholics-in-name-only who may darken the door of a church on Easter and Christmas and/or don’t know the Scriptures and the CCC from the phone book) and I suspect you’d get a radically different result.

Pfffftttt....

I know practicing Catholics who go to church every chance they get, certainly more than once a week, who still vote Dem because the "democrats are for the poor", and "I'm as prop-life as anybody but the government doesn't have the right to tell people what to do with their bodies." and "I like obamacare".

Anecdotal evidence is not set in stone, but in real life, I've only met a handful of practicing Catholics who are conservative. My personal encounters verify those stats.