What a hypocrite Barry is ...Is it 'fair' to force Catholic employers to provide contraception and abortifacients to employees? No it isn't.
In a short interview Monday with Karen Swensen of New Orleans’ CBS affiliate WWLTV, President Barack Obama reiterated his support for the HHS birth control mandate, this time adding it’s “not fair” that a woman working for a Catholic institution should “bear the burden and the cost” of paying for her own contraception.
Swensen posed a question from WWLTV viewer Michael Varino, “What can you say about a healthcare bill that’ll mandate insurance companies to provide birth control, sterilization, etc. to employees of Catholic universities, hospitals and churches since this goes against the Catholic religion?”
Swensen prefaced the question by stating that Varino “describes himself as a Catholic voter,” and followed it by adding, “We know there is compromising language in place. Some say it doesn’t go far enough and that the real, the much bigger issue is religious liberty, not contraception.”
Obama responded, “Yeah. Well it’s absolutely true that religious liberty is critical. I mean that’s what our country was founded on.
“That’s the reason why we exempted churches, we exempted religious institutions,” the president said. Bogus...a very narrow exemption.
“But we did say that big Catholic hospitals or universities who employ a lot of non-Catholics and who receive a lot of federal money, that for them to be in a position to say to a woman who works there you can’t get that from your insurance company even though the institution isn’t paying for it, that that crosses the line where that woman, she suddenly is gonna have to bear the burden and the cost of that. And that’s not fair,” Obama stated. Why not? she doesn't want the government intruding in her private life, so why should anyone have to pay for her birth control?
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I am having such a difficult time with Mr. Obama's stand on this healthcare bill, specifically about the religious freedoms that he is stomping all over. It doesn't make it any less scarey that he does not even realize that what he is doing is infringing on our religious freedoms. Catholics and all Americans who cherish the freedoms we enjoy should stand up to this man and firmly tell him NO. Thanks for your informative, interesting, and insightful comments about the world around us! I thoroughly enjoy your blog.
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