Yes, it’s really no change at all. They’re just playing with words.Your employer doesn’t have to pay for insurance which provides coverage for hiring a hit-man to kill your enemies. But your insurance company has to provide such coverage free of charge. So your policy will be sure to have the hit-man coverage whether the employer pays for it or the insurance company provides it free.
Is accepting such insurance coverage supposed to make the employer feel better?
And what about the insuror with moral objections? Do insuror’s have no freedom of religion?
The government now says, “Look, we’re giving you back your freedom of religion. Now we’re taking it away from insurors. Since you make such a fuss, you get religious liberty, but insurors don’t.”
“It would be no improvement to say: ‘Sure, you don’t have to include the coverage, you just have to send all your lay employees and women religious to the local Planned Parenthood clinic,’ he wrote.
They must know we’re not going to send the Poor Clares and the Missionaries of Charity down to Planned Parenthood where they kill children.I thought this was the most interesting part of the “accommodation”:
Pregnancy is not an illness and children are not a disease.Obama: “Cheaper to prevent an illness than to treat one.” Speaking of preventative care, including birth control. So pregnancy = illness to Obama? Kathleen Sebelieus then said the same thing about ‘‘illness’’ on Fox News.
Bwahaha…brilliant.The government now says, “Look, we’re giving you back your freedom of religion. Now we’re taking it away from insurors. Since you make such a fuss, you get religious liberty, but insurors don’t.”
Let’s all hope that this view prevails and that it is the beginning of a Catholic clerical reawakening.Archbishop Wenski of Miami: “He’s hasn’t really addressed our concerns. I think the only thing to do is… to take back the whole thing.”
The Rev. Frank Pavone, president of the Catholic anti-abortion organization Priest for Life, said “A resolution to this issue cannot only cover ‘religious’ employers. Religious freedom, which includes freedom of conscience, does not belong only to religious entities but to every American. There are many non-religious reasons to object to the administration’s policy.”
Writing at CatholicVote.org, Tom Crowe was not satisfied with the compromise: “If the religious institution is being required to pay for an insurance plan that subsidizes the insurance company’s efforts to proactively spread information about obtaining contraceptives, and then also pays for the contraceptives, that still means the church is being required to subsidize services and items it deems morally repugnant. The church’s money would still be used to support gravely immoral activity.”
An official with the U.S. Catholic Bishops said that the administration did not consult with their group before announcing the compromise, but the group has not yet officially commented on the revisions.
washingtonpost.com/blogs/under-god/post/conservative-catholics-not-happy-with-health-care-compromise/2012/02/10/gIQApJyH4Q_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpostSpeaking on Morning Joe as news of a potential deal broke, Washington Archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl said: “It’s the administration who has redefined health care. It is the presumption that pregnancy is some sort of health care anomoly that to have, to be pregnant is some sort of illness. [That approach says] we must prevent that illness and so we’ve redefined health care. . . A pregnancy becomes the problem.”
ObamaCare was not popular before this religious liberty issue, I hope it is even more unpopular now, people can see the problem of when government extends too far.Let’s all hope that this view prevails and that it is the beginning of a Catholic clerical reawakening.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on President Obama’s revised healthcare plan as it affects Catholic institutions:
President Obama’s latest ploy just adds insult to injury. If the insurance plan of a Catholic institution must cover services it deems immoral, then such a healthcare plan is offensive, plain and simple.
The Catholic League, for example, uses Christian Brothers as its insurance carrier. So if a future employee of ours were to demand free abortion-inducing drugs, and she is allowed to request free drugs from Christian Brothers, then the rest of us would, in effect, be subsidizing her abortion. This is outrageous and will not stand judicial scrutiny.
When it comes to the First Amendment, there is no such thing as a half loaf. We want now, and in the future, the same rights we have enjoyed since the beginning of the republic.
The Obama ploy is also cynical: its effect is to peel off liberal Catholic opposition to Obamacare. In other words, the old divide and conquer strategy is in play. But it won’t work as nicely as they think: there are too many practicing Catholics who will only be impelled to revolt.
catholicleague.org/obama%E2%80%99s-ploy-adds-insult-to-injury/Obama has decided to turn up the heat. He’ll soon see how hot things get when Catholics team with Protestants, Jews, Mormons and others to recapture their First Amendment rights. Indeed, President Obama will now be remembered as the president who brought the culture war to a boil.