Posted on 02/09/2012 12:51:33 PM PST by marshmallow
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) The Southern Baptist Conventions top public-policy expert said Feb. 4 that President Obamas health-care mandate covering contraception is the most anti-Catholic action by government since the denial of taxpayer funding to parochial schools.
This ruling by the Obama administration is the most transparently anti-Catholic action by the federal government since the Blaine Amendment was proposed in 1875, Richard Land, head of the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said during his weekly broadcast of the Richard Land Live radio program.
The Blaine Amendment would have amended the U.S. Constitution to prevent the use of taxpayer funds raised for public education to support sectarian schools. It was named after Republican presidential candidate James Blaine, whose 1884 campaign included infamous remarks by a Protestant minister describing Democrats as the party of rum, Romanism and rebellion.
Blaine introduced his amendment when he was Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1875. The amendment passed overwhelmingly in the House but failed by four votes in the Senate. While it did not carry at the federal level, the amendment inspired several states to pass laws restricting the public funding of religious instruction. Today Blaine amendments or provisions appear in 38 state constitutions.
In recent years Catholic groups like the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty have highlighted anti-Catholic bigotry common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as a reason to end laws enacted in those eras that they believe put Catholic schools at a disadvantage to non-religious private schools.
Land described the original Blaine Amendment as a measure designed to diminish public tolerance of Romanism, then regarded as foreign, authoritarian and liberal. Turning to Obamacare, Land said, Modern liberalism has progressed to the point of adopting the attitudes and methods of 19th century Republican Know-Nothing nativists.
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How many of these folks that are offended by this voted for Obambi?
“How many of these folks that are offended by this voted for Obambi”?
...a majority I’m sure. Just like a majority of jews voted for him even as he thumbs his nose at Israel.
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