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Posted on 10/06/2012 4:07:43 PM PDT by neverdem
Conservative Catholic activists, facing polls that show President Obama gaining among the famously politically split church community, are striking back at the White House with more than 1 million voter guides that fail the president on seven key religious liberty issues.
Angered by Obama's demand that religious facilities provide health insurance that includes abortion services despite their pro-life principles, the new voter guide grades the president with an "F," and Mitt Romney with an "A."
The new Catholic Association(PDF) voter guide does not include abortion, good for Romney who has shifted over time to be pro-life. The focus instead is on the group's belief that the administration is assailing the liberty and rights of the Church and religious institutions.
"Over the past four years, the Obama administration has put forth divisive policies and government regulations that that ignore our First Amendment protections and erode the religious freedom of Catholics and people of faith," said Maureen Ferguson, senior policy advisor to The Catholic Association(PDF).
"Imposing the HHS mandate on Catholic charitable organizations and employers was just one example where President Obama chose politics over the common good," added Ashley McGuire Senior Fellow of The Catholic Association(PDF).
More than one million copies of the guide will be distributed across the country in English and Spanish. The voter guide is available with or without logo so that activists are able to rebrand the guide for their own separate groups. The guide is also available online for printing and distribution across social networks.
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‘Bout time.
The sad thing is that there is absolutely nothing for any Christian to like about Obama or the Democrats. They are all about envy, jealousy, covetousness bitterness and theft. They want people to look to government to meet their needs and solve their problems, that is, they put government in the place of God. Pure idolatry.
Not only a candidate who remains pro abortion but is pro partial birth abortion, and who would deny medical attention to a baby born during a failed abortion attempt.
You're a sick man, Barack Obama.
Very slippery slope once engaging in activities not mentioned in the Constitution. Not mentioned means there is to be no involvement either way unless there is an amendment to the Constitution.
You almost covered all the 7 DEADLY sins. Well done.
Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride. Yup.
I’ve seen a recent ad here in Florida about a person who survived an abortion. Her story is moving and just the thing the GOP needs run. It is a very powerful anti Obama, the all abortion all the time advocate, candidate. The man has no morals. A heathen mongral he is.
Yup. He’s an infanticidal maniac. Even NARAL was not opposed to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. Mitt’s record is certainly checkered, but it is better than Omoloch’s!
“Conservative Catholic activists, facing polls that show President Obama gaining among the famously politically split church community, are striking back at the White House with more than 1 million voter guides that fail the president on seven key religious liberty issues.”
I wouldn’t be too concerned with Pew polls. A 52% -48% lead I can believe. A 54%-39% lead favoring Obama after all he has done to the Catholic Church and its followers...laughable.
Can someone explain to me why the Catholic Bishops do not simply announce that the day those rules go into effect will be the day that Catholic schools, hospitals, nursing homes, etc will close?
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Just guessing here, but it seems certain that the bishops recognize that shutting down all of that is the desired effect. The “progressive” weasels want only public schools, government monopolies on health care in all forms. What the bishops should, but unfortunately probably wouldn’t do is to simply announce across the board noncompliance. Quote the more common translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas on unjust laws at the O crowd and defy the government to act. I don’t think it’ll happen, but it seems much more appropriate, in my feeble opinion.
For the same reason that they (Many of them) won't say that it is a sin to vote for these pro-abortion democrats. They are out right cowards. Our Bishop (DeLorenzo of Richmond) refuses to do a D@MN thing.
Can someone explain to me why the Catholic Bishops do not simply announce that the day those rules go into effect will be the day that Catholic schools, hospitals, nursing homes, etc will close?
1. That gives them what they want - forcing religion out of the public square, and forcing private providers out of the industry they are herding toward single-payer/state-owned monopoly.
2. They have all those employees and patients for which they are responsible.
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