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Contraception ruling: Democrats accuse clergy of complicity with GOP at hearing
FoxNews ^ | February 16, 2012 | James Rosen

Posted on 02/21/2012 6:16:25 PM PST by prairiebreeze

"I believe today's hearing is a sham," said Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., of the first of two session held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during the day. His tone sharp and finger pointed, Connolly went on to declare the witnesses -- who included a Catholic bishop, a Lutheran reverend, an Orthodox rabbi, and two Baptist theologians, all opposed to the administration's recent ruling -- "complicit" in the Republicans' "trampling" of House traditions that would, if observed, have produced a more balanced panel.

"You are being used for a political agenda," Connolly told the holy men, after Republicans brandished images of President Kennedy and others to buttress their points. "This is a panel designed -- with your conscious participation or not -- to try, one more time, to embarrass the president of the United States and his administration, by overstating an issue which is sacred to all Americans: religious freedom. But of course, in order to do it, we have to, in an almost Stalinist-like fashion, have signs of Democratic icons to rub Democratic faces in it, as if those icons would be on the same side of this dispute today."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: clergy; complicity; contraceptionmandate; contraceptives; geraldconnolly; virginia
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Didn't see this posted.
1 posted on 02/21/2012 6:16:34 PM PST by prairiebreeze
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To: prairiebreeze

Just more of Canoli’s CR*P. He represents this district and he’s a Fascist Pig. So’s his old lady.


2 posted on 02/21/2012 6:22:55 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: prairiebreeze
Me thinks the liberals are getting squeamish...
3 posted on 02/21/2012 6:24:12 PM PST by majormaturity
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To: prairiebreeze

Does Connolly just hate babies in the womb—like Bath-House Barry?....On the other hand, he seems to LOVE terrorists because he’s ready to raise funds for them, right?

Why Doesn’t Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA) Come Clean about the Dar Al-Hijrah Fundraiser?

snip—”Last week we reported that seven Virginia elected officials were invited to the Saturday April 3 Annual Fundraising dinner at the terrorist-linked Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center.”

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=99c_1271034656


4 posted on 02/21/2012 6:27:37 PM PST by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: prairiebreeze
But of course, in order to do it, we have to, in an almost Stalinist-like fashion, have signs of Democratic icons to rub Democratic faces in it, as if those icons would be on the same side of this dispute today."

Like a lot of people who call themselves Catholic, JFK may have chosen personally to disregard Catholic teaching on birth control, but he definitely would not have gone against the Church on this one. Obama misunderstood which way the wind was blowing on this one. Now he's painted himself into a corner.

5 posted on 02/21/2012 6:30:28 PM PST by presidio9 (catholicscomehome.org)
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To: prairiebreeze
And I accuse dimocrats of complicity with Satan on their stand on abortion, homosexual marriage and support of the ungodly muzzies.
6 posted on 02/21/2012 6:32:11 PM PST by RetiredArmy (POLITICIANS: Promise the moon. Deliver the shaft.)
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To: prairiebreeze

“You are being used for a political agenda,” Connolly told the holy men’

Like when Obama “uses” pro-abortion, self described Catholic HHS Sebelius to push his pro-abortion platform ?

Or how the evil hypocrite in Chief recruits a pro-abortion Catholic to be the ambassador to the Vatican?

Or how the pig who calls herself the Senate minority leader and claims to be Catholic, thinks that she knows better than her Catholic Bishops on issues of morality and misleads millions through her publicly stated lies.

Now then, just who is exploiting useful idiots to undermine our religious institutions for no other purpose that to divide and conquer his political enemies?

Look into your own party’s mirror, Connally, you effing jackass and mental midget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVN2MMuiedI


7 posted on 02/21/2012 6:36:29 PM PST by motoman
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To: prairiebreeze

o try, one more time, to embarrass the president of the United States and his administration, by overstating an issue which is sacred to all Americans: religious freedom.

No sir. Mr Obama is the embarrassment to all people of faith.
His ass kissing of the muslim enemies of America and his many attacks on Christians and our morals make him that embarrassment


8 posted on 02/21/2012 6:36:32 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: prairiebreeze; lilycicero; MaryLou1; glock rocks; JPG; Graewoulf; VinceASA; Monkey Face; ...
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Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.


9 posted on 02/21/2012 6:37:56 PM PST by narses
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To: prairiebreeze

We are not losing on this issue when the democrats are making ridiculous statements like this. #winning


10 posted on 02/21/2012 6:39:19 PM PST by ilgipper (Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)
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To: presidio9

I’m not sure he misunderstood, I think it may have been a calculated move at creating more division in the nation, but if Obama was a Christian in the first place, he wouldn’t have.

And if a female clergy had been put on that panel like the dhimmicrats claim to object to, one can only imagine the excoriation, scrutiny and public ridicule she would be up against.


11 posted on 02/21/2012 6:39:29 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Who are you and what have you done with Ann Coulter?!)
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To: RetiredArmy

Agreed.


12 posted on 02/21/2012 6:40:19 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Who are you and what have you done with Ann Coulter?!)
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To: RetiredArmy; xzins
And I accuse dimocrats of complicity with Satan on their stand on abortion, homosexual marriage and support of the ungodly muzzies.

I was going to say the the Democrat Party is the party of Satan. I am dead serious about that.

13 posted on 02/21/2012 6:45:45 PM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: motoman

Please add Connally’s name to that list of CINOs.


14 posted on 02/21/2012 6:50:15 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (I declare for Santorum)
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To: P-Marlowe
I'm with you. Ever since the dimocrats started pushing their anti-God platform back in the 1960s and started getting anything Christian tossed out, this country has gone straight into the bucket. Just look at what our society was like back before the late 1960s and what it has been since. This nation is being judged RIGHT NOW by God. Our punishment is Obama. Our punishment is the debt. Our punishment is the rest of the mess dimocrats and politicians on both sides have done to this Republic. God is judging us now. We are failing. America used to stand for what is good in the world. Now we stand for 54 MILLION murdered unborn children and our largest export is now PORN!!! Yup, we are being judged. And we are FAILING!!!
15 posted on 02/21/2012 6:52:54 PM PST by RetiredArmy (POLITICIANS: Promise the moon. Deliver the shaft.)
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To: P-Marlowe

d e m o c r a t

demo = demon

rat = rat

c = combined


16 posted on 02/21/2012 6:56:02 PM PST by AnTiw1
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To: Mrs. Don-o; CainConservative; Buckeye McFrog; Mr. Lucky; Charles Henrickson

Follow up ping.


17 posted on 02/21/2012 7:01:01 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (I declare for Santorum)
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To: RetiredArmy

Correct on every count.


18 posted on 02/21/2012 7:07:36 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (I declare for Santorum)
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To: presidio9

This is not a fight over birth control. This is not simply a Catholic Fight.

Obozo has declared war on Christians, Jews and some other faiths. We are all in this and this is for keeps. Future of our nation and our families lie in the outcome of this election.

Now is the time to remove this cancer that is destroying our culture, morals and freedom.

This is a direct assault to the Religious freedom granted by God and written in the First Amendment of our Constitution.

Obozo is a Traitorous Liar.

It is TIME.


19 posted on 02/21/2012 7:11:21 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: prairiebreeze

These people are leftwing tyrants


20 posted on 02/21/2012 7:11:59 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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