American bishops said Thursday the Obama administration’s latest compromise on birth control coverage and religious employers doesn’t go far enough to answer church concerns.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said a bigger buffer is needed between religious charities and any third party arranging contraceptive coverage. Bishops also want a clearer statement that faith-affiliated hospitals and other nonprofits are religious ministries. And church leaders continue pressing for an exemption for owners of for-profit business who say the requirement forces them to violate their religious beliefs. The government has given no indication that it is considering a religious opt-out for business owners.
As a practicing Roman Catholic, my fervent hope is that they keep rejecting these “compromises”. This may have been the most arrogant of all the overreaching in the Affordable Care Act it’s frightening to think of what the government will do if it gets the idea that it can dictate policy for religious-run institutions.
Four more years.
As a fellow Catholic I would like to be inspired by the resistance shown by the American Bishops. But, basing my judgments upon the motto “Not what they say, but what the do is important”, I find myself forced to view the bishops in general as all show. If abortion is immoral and the illicit taking of the life of an innocent human (= defintion of murder), I would conclude that the Bishops would make examples of Catholics who support, promote and preach abortion (e.g., Sibelius, Pelosi, Biden, etc.), such traitors to their Church would receive Church discipline, e.g., EX-communication. When the child-murder supporter Ted Kennedy died, we had a glorius church service praising him. Who, just who has been excommunicated? We do have the abortionist in chief, Obama, being invited by our Cardinal Dol(ittle)an to the “Al Smith Dinner” with photos of laughter and joy and hobnobbing with evil. I cannot imagine a German Cardinal in the 1930s and 1940s inviting Hitler to a dinner full of hilarity, perhaps full of Jewsih jokes. I bet that most american Bishops, if the pressure from Rome were absent, would swim along the abortion clinics of Obama without a wink. I remain saddly sceptical.
It’s amazing how quickly the catholic bishops have “found their faith” now that Obamacare threatens their “moral objection” to providing contraceptive offsets via insurance mandates. Of course, these were all issues brought up before the imposition of Obamacare when the catholic bishops were pushing for its passage out of the “moral necessity” to provide health care (how health care got substituted for health coverage in the debate is beyond me) for all. Nevermind the massive sources of new guaranteed revenue flowing to their hospitals and clinics; it was always just about the morality of providing the underserved with care…amiright?
They turned their backs on the constitution when the fight was there to be had…they sold their freedom, and ours, for their 30 pieces of silver and I am personally inclined to not give a crap when their rights get swallowed up in the wake of the leviathan they helped release upon the rest of us. You wanted Obamacare, you got Obamacare and all of the corrosive tyranny flowing therefrom.
These bishops would happily open the borders, and are working tirelessly to undermine immigration law. Sure, Obamacare is a threat to their religious freedom. Tough beans, screw them. To paraphrase, “When they came for the Catholics, it was because Catholics had turned a blind eye to the rights of others”.