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Obama Owes More on Religious Freedom
Washington Post ^ | January 30, 2012 | EJ Dionne

Posted on 01/30/2012 7:24:07 AM PST by C19fan

One of Barack Obama's great attractions as a presidential candidate was his sensitivity to the feelings and intellectual concerns of religious believers. That is why it is so remarkable that he utterly botched the admittedly difficult question of how contraceptive services should be treated under the new health care law.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: contraceptives; freedom; obamacare; religion
Money quote:

In the health care law, Obama annoyed some in his liberal base by making sure that Catholic institutions do not have to perform or pay for abortions. Yet rather than praising him for this, the bishops and the Catholic right invented the idea that the health law does cover abortion.

It doesn't, as Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, insisted. In backing the administration's view on this, she braved attacks and discipline from the bishops. That's why it was unconscionable for Obama to leave her hanging out to dry.

Another Obama sucker.

1 posted on 01/30/2012 7:24:12 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Stopped reading after the first sentence. That sentence in it self is so ridiculous, one would have to assume it is a satire piece.


2 posted on 01/30/2012 7:28:09 AM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen You up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: C19fan

> One of Barack Obama’s great attractions as a presidential
> candidate was his sensitivity to the feelings and
> intellectual concerns of religious believers.

I musta missed something.

Oh, wait. Substitute “religious” believers with “Moslem” believers, and it works.


3 posted on 01/30/2012 7:29:34 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: C19fan

I heard something on FNC this a.m. that priests across the country were bringing this issue up during Mass this past weekend.


4 posted on 01/30/2012 7:31:57 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: C19fan

For a man the left loves so desperately, they really don’t understand him at all, do they?

Rule number one with politicians: NEVER listen to what they say, ALWAYS watch what they do.

That’s why the right knew Bush wasn’t a conservative. And that’s why we know Obama is a dishonest narcisstic tyrant, at heart.


5 posted on 01/30/2012 7:33:31 AM PST by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: C19fan
One of Barack Obama's great attractions as a presidential candidate was his sensitivity to the feelings and intellectual concerns of religious believers.

Boy is she is a cool-aid drinker. Obama called us bitter people who cling to our bible.

6 posted on 01/30/2012 7:50:41 AM PST by aimhigh
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