NEW
YORK (CBSNewYork) — Catholic leaders upped
the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a
provision of the new health care law that would require all employers,
including religious institutions, to pay for birth control.
As
CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reports, it could affect the presidential elections.
Catholic
leaders are furious and determined to harness the voting power of the nation’s
70 million Catholic voters to stop a provision of President Barack Obama’s new
heath car reform bill that will force Catholic
schools, hospitals and charities to buy birth control pills, abortion-producing
drugs and sterilization coverage for their employees.
“Never
before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line
up against the Roman Catholic Church,” said Catholic League head Bill Donohue.
Already
Archbishop Timothy Dolan has spoken out against the law and priests around the
country have mobilized, reading letters from the pulpit. Donohue said
Catholic officials will stop at nothing to put a stop to it.
“This
is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, and, dare I say
it, maybe even in the streets,” Donohue said. . . . .
Editor's notes:
while this impasse is heating up, the question of "why now" comes to mind. And
the answer is clearly this: Obama does not believe he needs anyone
representing a conservative opinion to win re-election. He has chosen to
"divide and conquer" and to do
so at the expense of millions in “the white working class,” and, now,
the 35** million voting members of the Catholic church. Keep in mind that he continues to alienate millions within the business community as he pushes class envy.
** the CBS article counts 70 million Catholics, but 35 million is closer to the actual number of parishioners voting in 2008 -- 54 percent of them for Obama.
Why don't we let women decide what is best for them? Like that bogus "personhood amendment" that failed in MS - a very conservative state - when women rose up to defeat it. Republicans have been happy to let Viagra be included in insurance plans but not birth control? Men trying to control women. They won't stand for it. This isn't a biblical theocracy where women must submit, as much as the GOP would like that.
ReplyDeleteIts about the unborn and the protections they deserve as human beings deserving of birth and life, you moron.
ReplyDeleteAnd Viagra. I only use it to keep my salad fresh.
Men controlling women? If Viagra worked, my wife would love me even more, I suppose.
With 450 Christian denominations, exactly what do you have in mind when you write of "a biblical theocracy?"
Go back to school before continuing to erect monuments to your ignorance, on this blog. Thank you very much.
Oh, and have a nice day.
You would think that conservatives would learn something from the MS 'personhood amendment' defeat and now, the Komen Foundation debacle where public outcry caused a decisive reversal.
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