Contraception ruling: Democrats accuse clergy of complicity with GOP at hearing

FoxNews ^ | February 16, 2012 | James Rosen

[prairiebreeze]

"I believe today's hearing is a sham," said Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., of the first of two session held by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during the day. His tone sharp and finger pointed, Connolly went on to declare the witnesses -- who included a Catholic bishop, a Lutheran reverend, an Orthodox rabbi, and two Baptist theologians, all opposed to the administration's recent ruling -- "complicit" in the Republicans' "trampling" of House traditions that would, if observed, have produced a more balanced panel.

"You are being used for a political agenda," Connolly told the holy men, after Republicans brandished images of President Kennedy and others to buttress their points. "This is a panel designed -- with your conscious participation or not -- to try, one more time, to embarrass the president of the United States and his administration, by overstating an issue which is sacred to all Americans: religious freedom. But of course, in order to do it, we have to, in an almost Stalinist-like fashion, have signs of Democratic icons to rub Democratic faces in it, as if those icons would be on the same side of this dispute today."

[ShorelineMike]

John, I *swear* I had to read this three times to make sure this didn’t have your byline on it. The line between news and satire grows thinner every day.

[Alamo-Girl]

So very true, dear brother in Christ!

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof [are] the ways of death. - Proverbs 14:12

God's Name is I AM.

[Frank_2001]

ROTFLMAO!!!!:)