Catholic Churches Evangelize Against Obama En Masse - RawStory

[WillyT]

Catholic churches evangelize against Obama en masse
By Stephen C. Webster - RawStory
Monday, January 30, 2012 14:00 EST

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In a surprising move over the weekend, thousands of Catholic parishioners were read letters that condemn the Obama administration and its recent decision to make birth control available to women through virtually all private health insurance plans.

The letters were written by Catholic Bishops in the U.S. and read aloud at hundreds of Catholic churches on Sunday. In one of the letters (PDF), written by a Catholic Bishop in Phoenix, Ariz., the church attacks the Obama administration for having “cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation’s first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty.”

But far from taking away their religious liberty or any of their “God given rights,” the Obama administration’s decision to make private insurers cover birth control will ensure that the church cannot deny these services to their employees if they choose to utilize them.

“We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted wrote in just one of the numerous letters. “People of faith cannot be made second class citizens. We are already joined by our brothers and sisters of all faiths and many others of good will in this important effort to regain our religious freedom. Our parents and grandparents did not come to these shores to help build America’s cities and towns, its infrastructure and institutions, its enterprise and culture, only to have their posterity stripped of their God given rights.”

The church added that Catholics should pray to ask the virgin Mary to intercede for the nation, and that parishioners look up the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment, a Catholic anti-abortion group.

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wow:

[lonestarnot]

1. Good gawd. Who bought the popie?

[DCKit]

2. U.S. government to Catholic Bishops: "We're revoking your tax-exempt status."

[csziggy]

4. Bingo!

Think of how much additional tax revenue that would bring in, too!

[MrScorpio]

3. Anti-birth control efforts actually promote more abortions in this country...

It's should be a simple thing to figure out: More unwanted pregnancies equals more abortions.

Of course, this fact goes right over their pointy little heads.

[mmonk]

5. Evangelize isn't quite the right word, is it?

Many religious people do not understand the concept of religious liberty nor the 1st amendment and always talk about the declaration of independence (which isn't the Constitution) when trying to discredit the concept of wall of separation.

[Pirate Smile]

6. It is now very rare for there to be those huge Catholic families that used to be so common -

8 or 10 or 12 kids. Hmmm I wonder why. Everyone in the pews knows.

It is amazing how many institutions that used to be granted an enormous amount of credibility and loyalty blew it through scandals people used to think couldn't possibly happen - the Catholic Church, the U.S. Government (Iraq War), Wall Street...Penn State is the most recent example I can think of.

[DURHAM D]

7. The stupid it burrrrrrnnnnns.

[Initech]

8. Good bye tax exempt status!

[BadgerKid]

9. Isn't the Church being inconsistent with its teachings here?

The Church could equate access to BC to temptation. Therefore, it would be up to the "morality" of its members not to give in. It basically seems like a Tree of Knowledge type situation.

No one seems to be forcing BC on these people.

Freedom of religion also includes freedom from religion. The church has no place trying to dictate to people outside its flock.

[Major Nikon]

10. Some 98 percent of sexually active Catholic women have used contraceptive methods banned

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/98-percent-catholic-women-birth-control_n_849060.html

Somehow I don't see this getting a lot of traction in their congregation. It's just going to show how out of touch their leadership is with its members.

[gopiscrap]

11. Revoke their tax status

they are every bit as bad as the fundies...neither church gives a shit about tax laws