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Mark Steyn: Obama goes Henry VIII on the church
The Orange County Register ^ | 2/10/2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/10/2012 4:37:24 PM PST by mojito

Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius' edicts on contraception, sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most Reverend Al Sharpton explained: "If we are going to have a separation of church and state, we're going to have a separation of church and state."

Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state wished to separate from was that of the British monarch, who remains to this day Supreme Governor of the Church of England. This convenient arrangement dates from the 1534 Act of Supremacy. The title of the law gives you the general upshot, but, just in case you're a bit slow on the uptake, the text proclaims "the King's Majesty justly and rightfully is and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England." That's to say, the sovereign is "the only supreme head on earth of the Church" and he shall enjoy "all honors, dignities, pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, immunities, profits and commodities to the said dignity," not to mention His Majesty "shall have full power and authority from time to time to visit, repress, redress, record, order, correct, restrain and amend all such errors, heresies, abuses, offenses, contempts and enormities, whatsoever they be."

Welcome to Obamacare.

The president of the United States has decided to go Henry VIII on the Church's medieval ass.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: idiobama; obama; obama1; obamacare
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To: Mach9

Well said, but you’d never know which group is which based on what so many of the bishops and clergy say (or refuse to say).

Thanks for the booster shot though!


21 posted on 02/10/2012 5:50:24 PM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: mojito
One thing Catholics have that none of the rest of the religious world does is the ability to excommunicate these heretics.

If Catholicism weren't so busy working out which of king barry's boots to lick first.

I am finding out real quick there are a lot of so-called Americans I have absolutely no desire to share a nation with.

22 posted on 02/10/2012 5:54:57 PM PST by hopespringseternal
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To: nascarnation

Catholics in name only.


23 posted on 02/10/2012 6:04:35 PM PST by diamond6 (Check out: http://www.biblechristiansociety.com/home.php and learn about the faith.)
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All contributions are for the Current Quarter Expenses.


24 posted on 02/10/2012 6:36:19 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: tet68
Example,”... Sebelius’ edicts...”

I would have rendered it "Sebelius's edicts." But that's just me.

25 posted on 02/10/2012 6:39:34 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: mrsmel

Did Al Sharpton ever graduate from High School?


26 posted on 02/10/2012 7:03:24 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Venturer

Sharpton graduated from Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, and attended Brooklyn College, dropping out after two years in 1975.


27 posted on 02/10/2012 7:06:53 PM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: mojito

How may electorial votes does the Vatican have? (Stalin: “How many divisions does the Pope have?”)


28 posted on 02/10/2012 7:06:53 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

as a guy said on CNBC

we’ve got a Pope from Germany and an Italian as the head of the European Central Bank - that’s not gonna work


29 posted on 02/10/2012 7:10:12 PM PST by nascarnation (DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
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To: GreyFriar

Thanks for the ping. Mark Steyn nails it, as usual.


30 posted on 02/10/2012 7:11:36 PM PST by zot
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To: nascarnation

Thanks.


31 posted on 02/10/2012 7:17:12 PM PST by Venturer
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To: mojito
"The Secretary shall develop oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance."

Before Obama's Act of Supremacy did the English language ever have need for such a phrase? "Tooth-level surveillance": From the Declaration of Independence to dentured servitude in a mere quarter-millennium.

I hope it's starting to get through to more people. 0bamaCare is not about health care it's about destruction of the Republic.

Whose right is health care? Do you think it's yours?

32 posted on 02/10/2012 8:02:57 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; tet68

Both way are considered correct, but ‘s after a name ending in s is preferred.


33 posted on 02/10/2012 8:07:31 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: mojito

I thought Muslims were supposed to be against what he’s mandating, too. But I haven’t heard any complaints from them. Maybe Obama won’t announce their waivers until after he’s re-elected.


34 posted on 02/10/2012 8:29:26 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: nascarnation

I don’t know about the Italian head of the ECB, but the German Pope is working out just fine.


35 posted on 02/10/2012 9:14:12 PM PST by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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To: xzins

Indeed. Thanks for the ping!


36 posted on 02/10/2012 9:51:25 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: mojito

Lord King, his Highness Barack Obama I, of the Holy Socialist Empire


37 posted on 02/10/2012 10:53:03 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: TheOldLady; Rummyfan; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...

Mark Steyn ping.

Freepmail me, if you want on or off the Mark Steyn ping list.

Thanks for the ping slings and arrows.


38 posted on 02/11/2012 12:04:33 AM PST by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress)
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To: xzins
To steal a line from Jethro Tull: "He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays."

To quote Rev. Rick James,

She's not the kind of girl
That you take home to your muth-aaaa ...!

lol

39 posted on 02/11/2012 1:49:24 AM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: JLS; Anoreth
The bigger the Big Government, the smaller everything else: First, other pillars of civil society are crowded out of the public space; then, the individual gets crowded out, even in his most private, tooth-level space.

Sigh. Why does anyone else (except Thomas Sowell) even bother to write ...

40 posted on 02/11/2012 5:56:10 AM PST by Tax-chick (Email your grandmother!)
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