Posted on 02/07/2012 4:04:54 PM PST by tobyhill
Hammered by Republicans and the Catholic Church, the White House hinted at compromise Tuesday as it struggled to calm an election-year uproar caused by its rule requiring religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth control.
Obama's chief spokesman and his top campaign strategist both said the administration was searching for ways to allay the concern of Roman Catholics who say the birth control mandate would force them to violate their religious beliefs against contraception. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said the policy was a "huge mistake" that the administration should reconsider. "And if they don't, Congress will act," McConnell said.
On the campaign trail, GOP presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich heaped new criticism on the president, with Romney accusing Obama of an "assault on religion" and Gingrich calling the rule an "attack on the Catholic Church."
Obama's spokesman defended the decision that prompted the flare-up, even as he raised the prospect of some adjustment. He said women working for church-affiliated employers must be able to get contraception, but he also made clear that the White House wants to accommodate the concerns of the employers who would be required to provide birth control coverage regardless of their religious beliefs.
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Stupak and comrades.
Incredible that THIS was posted on May 12, 2009!!!!!!
(but, we didn’t like Bath-House Barry because of the color of his skin/sarc)
Same with Obamacare, pipeline, illegal aliens, you name it. Once he's declared the messiah he'll be on our freedoms like ugly on an ape.
I am sure that they will back off before the election then afterward revert to the current stance. Watch for it...
They will gladly comprise with you today for a hamburger on Thursday.
The idiot church IMHO - 54% voted for this idiot for a deal to not go after priest molesting children and, by-in-large the liberal media has not spent the last 4 year attacking the church - now it’s teachers in lausd - the church gets what it deserves.
When you walk with God, good things are suppose to happen.
I think O and his little Politburo of “czars” are looking to destroy Catholic hospitals who will close their doors rather than violate their faith. then the Communists can step in, and take over the hospitals as Communist entities, with death panels, abortion on demand, etc. FUBO!!!
No way they really ever compromise on this. Sure they may say they will then if he wins re/election or Obamacare passes you bet this will still be the law.
And the stupid voters will be stuned! Time for an IQ test to vote.
No way can they in reality flip on this, because of the rabid nature of their base on the pro choice/abortion issue. Then cannot afford to lose any of their votes. It will have to be yet another obfuscation/deception that will not really change anything but have some clause that makes it seem like it.
Yeah, but just wait ‘til the day after the election..........if Zero is successful, WE all know what he will do then, when he doesn’t have to win another one...........
The so-called man in the WH has ZERO integrity and will reverse any reversal of this decree the day after he is re-elected. The only way to stop this is to get him out of office.
It’s the president of the United States telling Catholics he doesn’t believe what they believe. And he doesn’t respect their right to believe it. And that they are wrong. And that the state will have dominion over the Catholic Church.
0bama is an idiot and it will take a devoted idiot to lay a path to compromise with 0bama.
I was waiting for this flip flop but I think my fellow Catholics might have finally seen the evil that mr obama is
Let me guess at the “compromise” going something like, “Vote me in this year again, and I’ll free you from this mandate-——Suckers!!!!”
Seriously flawed theology and ignorant view of history. For example, can you name an Apostle who came to a peaceful end?
The DimBO art of compromise, I’ll lie to you while we do it.
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