Obama Admin Mandates Religious Employers Cover Contraception Cost, Catholic Bishops Furious
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The Catholic Bishops of the United States are reportedly furious over what they call the “literally unconscionable” decision by the Obama Administration to require that contraception be included in virtually all health plans provided by religious-affiliated institutions to their employees.
The announcement means that the mandate and its narrow exemption will not change. Rather, there will be a delay in enforcement against some employers.
“In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences,” said Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Dolan added, “To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is literally unconscionable. It is as much an attack on access to health care as on religious freedom. Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty.”
PR Newswire adds:
The HHS rule requires that sterilization and contraception — including controversial abortifacients — be included among “preventive services” coverage in almost every healthcare plan available to Americans. “The government should not force Americans to act as if pregnancy is a disease to be prevented at all costs,” added Cardinal-designate Dolan.
At issue, the U.S. bishops and other religious leaders insist, is the survival of a cornerstone constitutionally protected freedom that ensures respect for the conscience of Catholics and all other Americans.
“This is nothing less than a direct attack on religion and First Amendment rights,” said Franciscan Sister Jane Marie Klein, chairperson of the board at Franciscan Alliance, Inc., a system of 13 Catholic hospitals. “I have hundreds of employees who will be upset and confused by this edict. I cannot understand it at all.”
“The Obama administration has now drawn an unprecedented line in the sand,” Dolan said. “The Catholic bishops are committed to working with our fellow Americans to reform the law and change this unjust regulation. We will continue to study all the implications of this troubling decision.”
As AP reports, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded that nonprofit institutions such as church-affiliated hospitals, colleges and social service agencies will have one additional year to comply with the requirement, issued in regulations under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
“I believe this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious freedom and increasing access to important preventive services,” Sebelius said in a statement.
Yet the concession was unlikely to stop a determined effort by opponents to block or overturn the rule. If they fail, some predicted that religious employers would simply drop coverage for their workers, opting instead to pay fines to the federal government under the health care law.
“Never before has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience,” said Dolan. “This shouldn’t happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights.”
Officials said the administration’s ruling was carefully considered, after reviewing more than 200,000 comments from interested parties and the public. The one-year extension, they said, responds to concerns raised by religious employers about making adjustments. Administration officials stressed that individual decisions about whether or not to use birth control, and what kind, remain in the hands of women and their doctors.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Bold emphasis added by The Blaze.
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Comments (318)
Cymry
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:04pmIt looks as though there has been sea change in the efforts to expose the ineligibility of barry to be president.
Glenn, please be on the right side of this issue when it breaks out into the open.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/78876832/Farrar-Welden-Swensson-Powell-v-Obama-Order-on-Motion-to-Quash-Subpoenas-Georgia-Ballot-Challenge
Report Post »SacredHonor1776
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 2:50am“I count 18 lights in that Cross. 6+6+6=18″
You miscounted, there are only 17 lights…
Report Post »asybot12
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 6:15am@ sacred, I counted 17 as well plus two burned out ones, one at the bottom and one … oh..well take a guess.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 7:06amhttp://www.infowars.com/israeli-lobby-launch-new-super-pac-effort-to-bring-down-ron-paul/
For decades, lobbies and special interests have ruled Capitol Hill, with PACs effectively steering the outcome of every major political campaign by injecting money and buying influence. Now we find out that Texas Congressman and GOP candidate Ron Paul has been targeted by a new breed of PAC, this time with foreign backing.
Ron Paul is the only GOP candidate who is not overtly ‘pro-Israel’ in the popular neoconservative sense. On January 13, in the run-up to the pivotal South Carolina GOP primary, the Emergency Committee for Israel, run by neoconservative thinker William Kristol, released an ad in which its Director Gary Bauer makes a plea to voters – not endorsing any candidate, rather, telling conservatives that they must reject Congressman Ron Paul as their GOP candidate, deriding his foreign policy views with respect to America’s ‘special relationship’ with Israel, and fighting the War on Terror – concluding that, “We can do better than Ron Paul”.
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 7:12amshouldn’t that cross be upside down ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw
Report Post »TAXEVERYONE
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 8:56amWell since you Catholics were the deciding margin in electing this fool, maybe you can correct your error in November.
The religion many of us grew up with, has turned into a leaderless bunch of hippocrates.
Wake up!
Vechorik
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 9:00amIt’s like Ron Paul said — as long as we have the Federal government into the abortion issue, nothing can be divided as far as abortion, anti-abortion funds. Abortion should be regulated by the STATES (like they already regulate murder) and Rove vs Wade abolished.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 10:16amSpeaking of mandates, someone ought to mandate a karate chop to the back of our Dipweed in Chief’s neck and slap some sense into him.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 10:20amWhen is this A hole of the free world going to stop picking on people and intentionally searching for things to piss them off? What grade school slapped his sorry arse around the playground and turned him into such a piss ant?
Report Post »pjfrench
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 11:28amI believe that under the constitution this in direct conflict of the first amendment because it essentially establishes a NEW religion in that it alters the belief system of another. Therefore, it is in direct conflict with the first amendment and so unlawful. Subject to the laws of the land and the people for which they were set up to protect from a government that would usurp the power of the people and the freedom of choice.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 2:11pmWhile I can’t swear this is a true fact, some are saying that the Obama administration plans to introduce a sterilant into the water supply of red leaning voting districts. They are going to claim that the chemical compound is good for the enamel layer of your teeth, but the real consequence would be a reduced fertility rate in those districts. The long term effect would be a shift in the demographics toward the left. Diabolical, if true.
Report Post »arx
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 3:00pmAll you people suggesting rank and file Catholics supported obamanation need to get your facts straight. I don’t know even one open Obama supporter at my church. Everyone knows his position on abortion. And twice a year we plant thousands of little white crosses on the front lawn. Quit distorting reality.
Report Post »Phoenixsoulfire
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 7:09pmWhat happened to the separation of church and state? I mean come on! Oh wait only if the church trys to say a prayer at school that might hurt some dumb b!7chs feelings
Report Post »ghostsouls
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 8:53pmThe Dems keep yelling about the separation of church and state. If we can’t put anything religious into State and Federal things how can they put anything Federal into the churches…… doesn’t make sense…take it to the supreme court….
Report Post »WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges07
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 1:11am“Obama Admin Mandates Religious Employers Cover Contraception Cost, Catholic Bishops Furious”
America MUST ABORT Barack Hussein Obama … AKA Barry Obama … AKA Barry Soetoro … AKA …
Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate
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tmplarnite
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 12:19pmDoes this burnt out Boob Dweeb …EVER…….. SHUT UP! He has serious diarrhea of the mouth and continues his boring Manure tour!
Report Post »mattmo79
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:01pmO has gotta GO!
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:09pmOMG
Report Post »Obama MUST GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
johnlee
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:31pmThose same people voted for him, they are only getting what they wanted. We told them, we begged them not to, do you think they may listen this time?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:51pm“… the Obama Administration to require that contraception be included in virtually all health plans provided by religious-affiliated institutions to their employees.”
Obama just doesn’t want those nasty pro-religious people procreating. Sterilization is next and will be mandatory in the FEMA camps for anyone belonging to a Christian organization.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:54pmZero is firing up the base, OURS!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:59pmIn the photo of BHO with the lighted Cross behind him… I count 18 lights in that Cross. 6+6+6=18.
Report Post »666 might just be his number even though I don’t give any credence to numerology. 0(*v*)0
Patriotme
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:03pmEveryone, PLEASE contact your House Representative and tell them you want Obama impeached!
Report Post »Miller
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:37pmAdd me to your motto. Yes, has got to go back to the windy city.
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:14pmYep!
Report Post »BOMUSTGO
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 11:16pmObama has 18 letters in his full name….Barack Hussein Obama..
Report Post »jzs
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:23amBirth control is bad? As I understand it Catholics don’t believe in birth control. I guess the idea there is that a couple should only have sex if they are willing to have another child. Otherwise they shouldn’t have sex. With all due respect to the Catholic religion, that doesn’t make sense to me. In my view, a couple may want to have sex but not want to have another child. Do you understand my logic?
If you don’t want birth control, you don’t have to get it. It’s not forced on you.
Jayk Signal
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 2:08amThanks JZS for breaking it down for us.
Our Catholic scholars spent 2000 years figuring out our religious beliefs. But you figured it all out in just a few seconds. You feel our religious beliefs are silly. So the law is no big deal. We should just live with it.
Tell me genius, since you’re smarter than Catholic scholars. Are you smarter than the Founders with their silly religious freedoms too?
Report Post »Tower7_TRUTH
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 7:36amthe truth on Obama is out there
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/rush/080916
But this will never see the news
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 8:05amWhen are ALL THE FAITHS and CHURCHES goin to wise up and put down their different opinions to join forces against a common enemy against christans?
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 11:29amJayk Signal
Well said….
Stand Strong America
Report Post »Marine 1
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 1:23pmIt’s not just the Catholics — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints employs members and non-members alike all over the world. They have Brigham Young University (Provo), BYU-Idaho (Rexburg), BYU-Hawai’i (Laie), LDS Business College (SLC), Southern Virginia University, the LDS Church offices in Salt lake City, Utah, all of the farms and ranches they own, the transportation entities, the media corporation they own, and the list goes on. Too many things to list.
It is time for Catholics and Mormons to stand together and fight this stupidity.
What Obama is doing in this action IS a direct violation of constitution. We don’t need some corrupt “Community Organizer” modifying the constitution in any way. This whole administration is a disaster to what should be a free people living in a Constitutional (Chartered) Republic. We do not live in a democracy people!
BHO must go and this forced plan of action must be fought at every turn. BHO must go! He and his minions are killing America and the world.
Semper Fidelis to Almighty GOD and JESUS CHRIST and the good People of the United States
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 1:44pm@tower7-truth…thanks for the link..interesting story
Report Post »Patriotme
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 2:16pmBREEZE, you are correct, the House Judiciary Committee charges with impeachment while the Senate tries the hearing. Yes, I know there is a long shot with the current Senate, but at least the process would make news, get people THINKING and give the GOP nominee a bigger boost.
Report Post »ReynMansson
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 7:21amThis is directed at MARINE1,
This is NOT supported by the women of the Catholic church. As a matter of fact birth control is the issue that helped kill the RCC in America. Who do the Catholics Bishop think they speak for? Certainly not Catholic women .
(Reuters) April 2011– Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraceptive methods banned by the church, source: Guttmacher Institute research 04/2011
Report Post »SavedByTheLamb
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 2:03pmThe Bishops speak for the Catholic Church and its devout followers.
Those disobedient “Cafeteria Catholics” need to do some soul searching and return to the teachings of the faith. Their disobedience is what hurts the Body of Christ.
And shame on Catholics who voted for Obama. I have some in my family and the big issue seems to be another big sin – homosexual marriage.
I am so disgusted I could puke.
Report Post »SavedByTheLamb
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 2:11pmMarine1 I am with you. Mormons and Catholics don’t always see eye to eye, but we are definitely both under assault here.
Obama is a very, very evil person. He is targeting the Catholic Church because we condemn Socialism because it denies that man needs God. Great video from 2008 explains it all. A must-watch. It is all coming true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c02q8U9VddU
And Kathleen Sibelius is a supposed Catholic, just like Nancy Pelosi. These women need to be excommunicated.
Disgusting.
Report Post »by faith
Posted on January 25, 2012 at 6:14pmjzs
The primary purposes of marital relations are procreation and spousal unity (babies and bonding), but that does not mean that the husband and wife are not supposed to derive pleasure from their marital relations. Although pleasure is not a purpose of sex, it is important to fulfilling the purposes of sex.
God gave humans the capacity to enjoy food and sex in order to encourage them to fulfill the purposes of those human needs. A moral problem occurs only when deriving pleasure from food and sex is put above or in the place of its intended purpose. Someone who eats solely for pleasure, without regard for the needs of his body, abuses the privilege of eating. In the same way, someone who has sex solely for pleasure, without regard for its intended purposes of babies and bonding, abuses the privilege of sex.
The Catholic Church recommends Natural Family Planning. At its core, Natural Family Planning (NFP) is really learning about this language of the sexual powers by observing, recording and interpreting the bodily signs of human fertility. In other words, NFP is fertility awareness, the knowledge of a couple’s fertility, and is a means of reading the body’s signs of fertility and infertility. Applying this knowledge through the Sympto-Thermal Method (STM) of NFP, which CCL teaches, is over 99% effective in postponing pregnancy.
http://www.ccli.org/
Report Post »Uechi
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:59pmTime to cowboy up in masses and say not only no, but hell no!
Report Post »Patriotme
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:07pmPLEASE contact your House Representative and tell them to IMPEACH OBAMA! Enough is ENOUGH!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 7:13amTime for the churches to mobilize their congregations to get rid of Obumbler and his Czars and his caninets that make regulations that they enforce like laws passed by congress.
King Barak the first know what is best for you so sit down and shut up.
7.62×39
OMG
Report Post »BreeZee
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 11:48amGood thought Patriot however the House only brings the charges The Senate tries the case. Dingy harry will and the leftist controlled Senate will never vote to impeach. I know because I inquired thru my Rep.
Report Post »liberalescheisskopf
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:58pmDer diktator has spoken! Cue the bugles and drums! Bring in der brown-shirts. Krystalnacht ist here!
Report Post »(Unless a congressman has the b*lls to begin impeachment???)
Patriotme
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:10pmENOUGH talk! IMPEACH OBAMA!
Report Post »countrysideflair
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 10:05amSorry, Obama actually has to break the law AND there has to be evidence of it… to be impeached. He may have broken the law, but as afaik, their is no evidence of it, that we know of.
We as Americans voted this turd in and we have to put up with him for another year. Just think of all the executive directives he’s going to create during his “move-out” time. Or if he somehow wins… next year there will be a no-holds-barred (term-limited) fest.
Report Post »R8ioActvC@thlic
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 11:56pm@Country
Last I checked, the Constitution is the “supreme law of the land,” and that the first amendment is still part of the constitution.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:57pmProviding healthcare that provides someone with the opportunity to CHOOSE to possibly use contraceptives seems too many causal agents removed for religiously conscientious individuals to plausibly argue that their beliefs or “moral integrity” has been compromised as though they were implicated in the person’s decision to use contraception, because they had provided that person (favored their character enough to do so in fact) with employment, a salary and a health insurance plan (that they chose among several) that happened to include contraception coverage (as most were required to in compliance with a law, not any decision of the church) that that individual then chose to use.
Really? That’s a ridiculous level of extension of moral implication. Do these same people agonize over whether or not the EXISTENCE of homosexual or extramarital heterosexual sexual relationships occur completely independent their presence or observation implicates them morally in the act? Because they imagine they OUGHT to have the power to stop that act? That’s a dangerous line of reasoning to pursue.
I don’t see what substantiates the threat to conscience–we might as well shut down the contraceptive industry for their sake.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:21pmAny Catholic financed health care plan will never submit to being forced to pay for abortifacients..To Catholics, any drug that terminates a pregnancy is Abortion..We have a right to practice our beliefs free from government control…Barry is making God very angry.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:18pmFor starters, the Catholic church in question doesn’t offer the plan–they pay some insurer for the coverage of their employee’s choice–so the employee first has to choose a plan that HAPPENS to cover contraceptives (even though they may have reasons completely unrelated to its coverage thereof for picking the plan, and no intent to use that coverage), then ALSO has to pick to USE the coverage. That‘s THREE LEVELS OF AGENCY removed the church is themselves from their employee’s decision to use contraceptives. First, they don‘t have control over what plans the insurer’s available and within their price range offer, second they don’t have control over (and therefore responsibility for) plan their employee chooses, and third they don’t have control over whether their employee chooses to use birth control, regardless of whether or not it‘s covered by the plan they pay for as part of the employee’s benefits.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:38pmIts not the contraceptives,its the drugs that terminate a pregnancy…we see a big difference..And you won’t change my mind on this issue…
Report Post »TheVoice1
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:05pmSo quickly we forget..
Supreme Court Rules Against Obama Admin: Check this out here on the blaze…
This will again hit the Supreme Court unless of course the whole unconstitutional Obama care is struck down by the Supreme Court this summer and it will be. The government can make no law respecting the establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof and it stand period, any more than Obama can mandate what you spend your money on.
Stand Strong America and vote!!!
Report Post »martyhittle
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 4:13pmJAYK posted: ” … You feel our religious beliefs are silly. So the law is no big deal. We should just live with it… ”
JAYK, I’m gay and Christian, and there are a lot of people that wish to withhold rights from me based on their personal religiuos beleifs. So I have to ask, how does it feel?
” … You feel our religious beliefs are silly. So the law is no big deal. We should just live with it… ”
Report Post »This is precisely how a lot of people think about our condition. Again, how does it feel?
MCDAVE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:57pmRemember those 40000 new laws,Obama’s Muslim buddies are writing them…How many outrages have we seen since Jan 1rst…It will get worse….Failing to defend the constitution is an impeachable offense.
Report Post »scseahawk
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:01pmAgreed!!!!
Report Post »Patriotme
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:11pmContact your House Rep and tell him to IMPEACH the pants off Obama!
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 10:58amI keep reading these impeach Obama now comments. Do you not understand it is not simple, takes much time and ultimately does not remove President from office. Bill Clinton was impeached although many young folks say he wasn’t. For lying. And look at old Bill and Hill now. She prominent in every avenue of $$$$ in $$$ out and he, well, he cannot practice law but hey hey how much money did he make today? Only 2 presidents have ever been impeached. Fast and Furious would be the place but now they DOJ are dummying up and taking the 5th (oh yeah, shades of Richard Nixon above the law using the law).. Much faster to focus on the election, decide, get out the vote, send candidate money even small donations (esp. Santorum if he is the one) and get it right locally (just as in 2010). The comments are wasted. Frustration is draining but Stand For What You Believe. We can win (Faith is more powerful than fear).
Report Post »Patriotme
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 2:51pmTEXASGRANNY I understand your frustration, but I am afraid one of the largest problems with our country today is that it is crippled with people who simply are content to roll over and take it, because fighting is “too much work” or that they fear their voice will be heard. Is this what our Founding Fathers created our country for? To be filled with people too discouraged to stand up and act? The reason Clinton wasn’t removed was because the Senate acquitted him. He was impeached by the House. Regardless of whether Obama is removed, my point is that we cannot sit around and let him get away with taking our liberties inch by inch. Where do we draw the line? We need to let our House reps know we will not stand for this and that we demand demand that a resolution to impeach President Obama be filed with the House Judiciary Committee for the President’s threat and disregard to the United States Constitution. Believe it or not, our congressional representatives are ELECTED officials and WE THE PEOPLE are their bosses. This was proven last November when we FIRED a bunch of them. If enough voices are raised, they have to act. I urge you, please raise YOUR voice and do not be content with laying idle while your liberties are stolen from you.
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:51pmWhen is enough, enough? To the Bishops on the social justice/liberation theology team, this is what happens when you thrown in with the Democrats. See what happens when support of liberal Catholic Bishops and lay ministers throws in with the left? Catholics and Christians everywhere must prepare for this President to go much further if he stays in office. Wake up! This government is taking away religious rights!!! Is this Prez going to force Islamic insitutions like CAIR and the Muslim League to provide coverage for their employees to have contraception and abortions? Being Catholic, I hope Rick Santorum brings this issue up ASAP.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:03pmHE’s lost all support from Catholics.Catholics are praying to save our country from Obama
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:50pmWhichever R is the new President, all Barry Mandates , Rules, Thoughts, Ideas, should be ended their first day in office . By Mandate. Fairs Fair.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:54pm13TH IMAN, I like your point of view on this subject…..:)
Report Post »irishman
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:54pmNewt will undue everything that monkey a$$ commie has done in the first few hours of taking office.
Report Post »OBAMA IS A FOUL EVIL TRAITOR
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:49pmObama is simply SATANIC! .. He is going to usher in the One World Government and the Antichrist. He is Satanically Empowered and Protected. Obama will declare Martial Law BEFORE the Elections in November, Mark my words! FEMA Camps, here we come!
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:34pmLive Free or Die in NH
( dems in this state treied to change our motto.. not PC.. sounds violent)
Report Post »yup.. because we will fight for our freedom
thetreyman
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:47pmthats not going to happen. take a deep breath, everything will be fine. the elections will be held on november 6th as planned. crazy lefties said the same stuff about bush.
Report Post »Veritas Libertas
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:48pmThese most recent attacks on Constitutional rights are being carried out to make you angry enough to rise up so he can begin the “top down” solution (NDAA.) Hold steady. The awkward time is almost over as the contractions become indistinguishable from one another.
Report Post »AlphaDoe
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:07pmI think he is purposely pushing all the right buttons so as to us all angry enough to rise up, then he will impose Marshal Law! We need to keep cool heads. Though it is difficult. Nothing would give me as much pleasure as to see this dictator tarred and feathered! What really stinks is even once he leaves office he’ll still get paid with my tax money!
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:20amI have been thinking this same thing. He is pushing buttons and trying to figure out what will cause those that believe in Freedom to rise up, so that he can write more laws that take away more of our rights. It’s a very scarey time, and hopefully the public stays calm and he is voted out of office every night.
Report Post »guns-an-bibles
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:25amNot if he is jailed for treason.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:44pmThe moron is committing political suicide insuring he is One & Done!!!!!!
Report Post »Suchiazski
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:47pmNo, because liberals either don’t care, don’t pay attention, or support him regardless. The media spins stories like this to blunt its edges anyway. MSNBC will make Obama the victim in this story.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:42pmGod Obama has spoken.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:40pmBo is screwing America again!!!
Report Post »Longing for Change
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 9:23pmBut at least we have protection for that screwing … :-(
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:39pm…
Report Post »Evil, socialist, extreme muslim, dictator (Tater Head) Obama, has struck again.
Micmac
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:37pmI don’t see this requirement as being valid and think it can be overturned. Just have to go through the steps. The tactic I see is that the progressives need to destroy the family and church so the government can be the family and church. For a good socialist government to exist there can be neither family nor church. This is just another attack, among many, where they hope some will stick. I would also not conform to the requirement and tell them to stuff it. There needs to be resistence to this overt attack against religious beliefs.
NoBama 2012
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:21amYes, it’s also a way to control the population. Who knows what could be put into the birth control pills and drugs and what effects they will have on the girls with fertility down the road.
Report Post »Sharon Rose
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:37pmCome on Nov.~~~ can’t wait to cast my vote for anybody but BHO~~
Report Post »The Scarecrow
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 12:35pmThe lesser of two evils is still evil. Just anybody won’t do.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 4:00pmGingrich – Rand Paul 2012
Report Post »Suchiazski
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:36pmSounds like Dolan nailed it. Good thing Obama won’t be around long enough to destroy the rest of the constitution.
Report Post »Cyndee - Tx
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:35pmI am outraged! And sick and tired of him.
Report Post »Cat
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:34pmThis guy has got to go
Report Post »(Forget your idea Glenn … One way or another, Barry’s got to go)
He thinks he’s God
Beckster2
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:33pmThe God of Gov has spoken. Of course this is a violation of the 1st Amendment but its been dead for a long long time. The God of Gov is Secular Humanism and Atheism all other churches must do as they are told by the Gov Religion of the ruling elite. As to not being allowed to prohibit the free practice of religion, does anyone think we can freely practice our religion? When will the Marxist, Liberal Catholic Bishops wake up to the long term destruction of everything by the Democratic Party they have long been supporting.
Report Post »Suchiazski
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:37pmBahhh, the Constitution is just a grocery list of little memes to be violated. Naturally, the first thing on the list should be checked off first.
Report Post »bjolly
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:45pmDid you really think that the Bishops with their social, peace and justice focus at all cost will change their minds and/or party affiliation? Have you ever thought of the USCCB and the Bishops as another form of another union – do you know where this is going? Where do you think the USCCB stands on Obama? Will they roll over on Obama’s ruling on contraception and take their medicine for social peace? You bet! And will they tell loyal to their Catholic tradition and magisterium to vote for him again? You bet!
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:31pmFor all of this separation of church and state the left wing loons are screaming about, there is an awful lot of state sticking it’s nose into the church. Somebody needs to live up to their claimed position. One church here beat the city a number of year back on just that claim.
Report Post »Bitter_Klinger
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:30pmo-vomit SUX
Report Post »GallagherPreach
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:28pmWhat a joke. I wonder if any democrats will scream separation of church and state on this one.
This President will be known as the worst in American history for his one-sided, selfish policies.
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:27pmNoBama doesn’t care who he ****** off. He’s so cocky he thinks he can do anything and still get elected….. :o( Not good, not good at all
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:42pmMillions of voters will sit in church and here about this…alienating more and more voters…
Report Post »angeleyes63
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 10:10amWith all of the backdoor amnesty comming from the most corrupt admin ever and using a foreign company in spain to count and certify the votes he figures it’s in the bag, and I’m not so sure he is wrong
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 8:27pmAre you “hope & change”catholics still not getting the picture of the marxist in chief ?
Report Post »deron
Posted on January 20, 2012 at 10:25pmYou beat me to it. How many Catholic Priests, etc. came out in support of this guy? The Supreme Court (unanimously) overturned the White House on who church’s can employ, so he is finding another way to stick it in their eye.
One would think they would wise up.
Report Post »arx
Posted on January 21, 2012 at 2:51pmIm devout Catholic and never heard one priest ever say anything in support of Obama the baby killer. I would have jumped up during Mass and raised hell if I did. Check your information.
SavedByTheLamb
Posted on January 22, 2012 at 2:18pmWe have a big problem with liberals in the Church. They are not the majority and they do NOT represent Catholic teaching.
Notice how the Pope has been replacing the Bishops in the U.S. with VERY CONSERVATIVE men who are loyal to the Church.
Shame on Catholics who voted for Obama. Pro Life should always come first.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c02q8U9VddU
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