Not only Catholics, but other Christians too. Why do Amish get a religious exemption? Why one rule for one group of people and another rule for the rest? I think the fact that the Amish get a full religious exemption and others who want it do not is not going to look good when the HHS mandate goes to court.
jillstanek.com/2012/03/join-wheres-the-freedom-webcast-tomorrow-night/
Absolutely agree that the Church is a bigger obstacle. The point is that the Amish have won many cases about their ability NOT to be subject to various laws (kids going to school etc). So with that precedent, the Obama-sites may have thought easier to just give this relatively small and unaffiliated group a pass so any court challenges could not be easily dispensed with.
I would be happy to be wrong about this, but I do think that there is a strong ideological contingent within this administration who really hate the Catholic Church and would like to see it disappear from the face of the earth. Oh, they will point to the support of some leftist Catholics who have all but abandoned the Church in favor of leftist ideology. THAT is the Catholic Church they want. Not the Church which has maintained the teaching of Christ for 2,000 years.
In for a pence, in for a pound.
I don’t doubt that many are enjoying this attack on the Church but I really don’t think that anti-Catholic animus is the pimary motivaton here. They really believe in what they are doing and they should not be underestimated on this.
If I read it right, it’s worse than that. If you end up with one of those policies (and we don’t know what policies will be offered, it might be in ALL of them in the exhanges…and everyone is required a policy of some sort) you have to pay $1 separately, directly to fund abortions. No conscience clause. You write two checks, and one is directly for abortion. That way taxpayer dollars are supposedly not going into it.
catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=28080
There is a straightforward explanation that will satisfy very few on CA that doesn’t involve a conspiracy to take down the Catholic Church or any other religious group, for that matter. The primary reason for requiring religious (including Catholic) institutions to provide insurance coverage for contraception to their employees (whether the employer pays for it or not) is that such religious institutions employ so many Americans, including many Americans who don’t share the religious beliefs of their employers. The Jesuits alone, for example, have 28 colleges and universities in the U.S., and the Catholic health care system is huge. The exception for the Amish, by contrast, stems from the fact that they employ a negligable number of Americans, particularly non-Amish Americans.
Oh my, your post made me laugh. Please check the recent polls Alan. This has backfired and Obama’s approval by women voters has dropped substantially in recent weeks. Oh they try to blame it on gas prices, but why haven’t the opinions of men dropped at the same level? Apparently women think beyond the Big Feminist ideology. The irony is that he pretends to be ‘pro-woman’ while simultaneously claiming they are ignorant and incapable of running their own lives.
Yes, this is what I suspect is the best explanation. The administraiton really believes that they are doing good by forcing employers to cover contraceptives and have no interest in allowing even Catholic institutions, much less Catholic employers generally, to avoid the iron fist of Government because there are so many people involved. It would make a mocery of Obamacare.
lifesitenews.com/blog/an-american-takeover-of-america-8-lawsuits-filed-against-obama-mandate
One of the teachings of the Church is that we tell the truth. Calling Obama a Marxist stretches the truth beyond recognition. Mouthing right-wing conservative slogans is not the same thing as telling the truth.
While I would agree that the more accurate description would be Fabian Socialist, pretetending that Obama is not a Marxist of some sort certainly “stretches the truth beyond recognition.”
