RESIST!
Friends and colleagues,
Ave Maria Radio Communication has launched a project called StopHHS.com.
As, I’m sure you know, On January 20, President Obama informed Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, that the Catholic Church in America has until August of 2013 to provide almost all of their employees with insurance that covers sterilization and contraception, including drugs like the ‘morning-after pill’ that may cause an early abortion. If the Church refuses to comply with this mandate from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), various penalties will ensue. The Church will be considered an outlaw, a bad neighbor and its leaders subject to prosecution.
To sixty million American Catholics the President has said that now to be good Americans, we must be bad Catholics. Archbishop Dolan understood immediately. His ironic response: “So you’ve given us a year to figure out how to violate our conscience.”
Through StopHHS.com, we are committed to reversing the decision of the Obama Administration to force Catholic organizations to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs in their health care plans.
We will accomplish this by providing a place where all reporting, commentary, statements, legislation, video messages, audio messages, interviews and press releases will be complied into one single comprehensive website. We will petition the Obama Administration through the voice of the people to reverse course and respect the consciences of Christians of all stripes as he promised to do in his Commencement Address at Notre Dame in 2009. We will urge support for all legislation that would force the Obama Administration to rescind their decision and would protect the Church from further government intrusion. And we will engage the media in an effort to provide accurate information to the American people on the issue of conscience protection.
I’m asking you first to go to the website, sign the petition and second to use whatever means you can to promote this effort. You can post a banner on your sites, use social media, e-blast, WHATEVER YOU CAN. Our facebook page is simply StopHHS.
Thank-you for your partnership in this vital mission.
Nick Thomm
Executive Producer
“Kresta in the Afternoon”
734-930-3164
RESIST THE TYRANT!
Went there….signed it. Keep it up! The gloves are now off!
I think I’ve figured it out. This is a political stunt. Kmeic, Barak ‘Baby-killa’ Obama’s slaveboy, has recently come out and denounced his ‘friend’ over this issue… and only this issue. So, this has become the apparent line in the sand (not his rabid lust for the murder of innocent children, his raping of Medicare making it harder for the sick and elderly, his violent push to force homosexual acts to be accepted as normal by all Americans of all ages against their will, his rending of ‘marraige’, his assault on natural human rights, etc.). This is the easiest line for him to just kick the sand back over conveniently to get all of his ‘friends’ back in line and eliminate what appears to be the biggest reason not to vote for him amongst bad Catholics (those that have stopped supporting him over this issue anyway).
So, look for this, sometime between the Republican nomination and October, whenever ‘Baby-killa’ needs a boost in the polls, they’ll repeal this mandate for the Catholic Church (albeit, encased in carefully worded legalese that amounts to a ‘temporary’ repeal). Then his puppy dogs like Kmeic, contributors of Vomitus Nova, National Catholic Rejects, etc. will all swiftly jump back on ‘Baby-killa’s’ side and begin campaining for him again.
Obama isn’t stupid.
I hope you’re wrong on this one….but I can see it happening. If people of our faith who had voted for him in 2008 vote for him in 2012 we have more to fear from our own people than we do from Tyrant Obama. At least we would know where we stand with him…..
I think I’m right… but we’ll see. Like Kmeic, the contributors of Vomitus Nova and NCRejects, appear to be only upset about this issue. If and when this gets repealed, they’ll go right back to stumping for their lord and king. In fact, their cries of praise will be louder than ever because “they prayed to him and he heard their cries”.
When CNN/Fox News actually start picking up the story, there is no doubt that there is a plan in place. They censor things like the ‘Walk for Life’ because they perceive that as a threat. They obviously don’t perceive this as a threat, otherwise it would be censored as well.
That’s my opinion, anyway. No one is stupid enough to set themselves up as a blantant agitator of the First Amendment in an election year… not unless they have a plan.
Not stupid….arrogance.
Remember, he has the MSM in his pocket…even Fox News, I believe runs interference for him and his regime.
He is arrogant, for sure. But he’d be stupid if he allowed his arrogance to torpedo his “re-election”. If he doesn’t repeal this, then one of the other goofballs running against him actually have a chance to win without the need for clinching the cemetery vote.
That’s why I think this is more of a “show” than anything. He will always appear arrogant to those who don’t like him. Those who do actually like that show of arrogance, it’s what they want in a leader (when has the gay rights movement lacked arrogance?). He’s not trying to impress you to vote for him. He doesn’t need your vote.
That’s why I’m betting he’ll repeal this (with some phoney temporary repeal). He won’t be backing down, he’ll be playing the country… which will actually feed his ego even more.
You appear to bent on rejecting as many allies as possible.
Sure. If that’s how you want to look at it. But I prefer to look at it how I explained. This issue is not the great unifying issue of the world of American Catholicism. There are allies and there are fair-weather friends. Mistaking the two can be dangerous. When Obama repeals this, and he will (encased in legal language that makes it temporary), don’t be surprised when you feel the sudden sharp pain of a dagger piercing your back in the midst of the celebration to turn and find the weapon in the hand of your newly found ‘ally’ that you’ve so uncautiously included in your inner circle.
Don’t be silly. This is not a mistake by Obama, and your newfound friends really aren’t your friends.
See yesterday’s comic re: the difference between a friend and an ally.
I think we could accept their support on this one thing, yet keep countering them on other things (especially if they are a matter of conscience) at the same time. They don’t want to be BFF’s with us, either.
I must admit that Joseph’s proposed scenario makes an unholy amount of sense.
And another thing. I stand behind my bishops on this because they are doing and saying the right things and because they stand in the place of the Apostles. I won’t lock arms with those who spit on the other important teachings of the Church simply because they don’t agree with ruling cast down from the leadership they helped to put in place despite the warnings of the Catholics they love to ridicule. It is because of them, and not because of the bishops, that Obama will overturn this. As I said, the goal is to put things to rest so that he can continue performing all of the other crimes against humanity without further political pressure.
One other advantage to this for the Tyrant is this… if and when he repeals the mandate, the “sleeping giant” will graciously go back to sleep. And, as it has been the case since pre-2008, all of the other autrocities will go all but ignored save for a handful of American bishops writing letters in their diocesan paper and posts on their blogs.
Those bishops, if not completely ignored by the non-Catholic Catholic blogosphere, will simply be written off as the same old malcontented, curmudgeonly, ancient bishops who do nothing but complain. They won this battle and they still want more?
I’m pretty sure that repealing this mandate will effectively take the wind out of the Catholic freedom fighters’ sails and things will return to normal. Obama is running against an Android whose policies reflect his own but is actually more confused as to why he agrees with them, a lizard-man Newt who is actually rambling about moon settlements when he’s not making excuses for his bad deeds, and Santorum who is a shill for the Republican warhounds (though I agree with him most out of the others). Ron “Atlas Shrugged” Paul may have many things in common with a good Catholic, but he abides by Randian philosophy which is more aligned to the way of living proscribed by the serpent in the garden (look out for ‘numero uno’) than the Catholic Church.
Obama’s competition is doing a good job of killing itself off. All he has to do is repeal this and I think he’ll win.
Signed! This mandate is outrageous and has to be stopped. What country are we living in?
I understand and support fully the Bishops stance against the HHS mandate, but this sort of thing didn’t appear in a vacuum. For decades the Bishops have tolerated poor catechesis, schismatic religious orders with flaky teachings, pervert priests, post-vatican II “whatever” theology, and so on. So now, after decades of pastoral neglect, what is going on with the Church in the U.S. and the animus of our political leaders comes as a surprise? Most Catholics can’t even articulate why birth control is immoral. Sure, individuals need to take responsibility for themselves and learn Church teachings but given the massive propensity for Catholics to use birth control, our clergy does need to take some responsibility for the massive failings in catechesis and decline in the American Church. The time for action was in the 1970′s and 80′s when “Sister Issues” was teaching (or failing to teach Church teachings) to kids like me in Catholic school or “Father Touchalot” was shuffled between parishes. How many Bishops and religious orders were falling all over themselves to support ObamaCare? How many Bishops were mealy-mouthed on the sinful nature of Catholics (that would be around 50%) who voted the guy into office in the first place due to his odious stance on the issues of life?
I guess since I live in the glass house I can throw stones, but the selective outrage is, for lack of a better word, outrageous. This doesn’t mean that the outrage on this particular issue isn’t warranted, but whatever moral capital the Church in America once had has been severely depleted and trying to cash that check now is going to be very tough. I say this not out of animus towards the church whatsoever, but for crying out loud folks, people act like what’s going on is a surprise.
Read the NYT and see the fix (“compromise”) is in the works. Look for the Catholic left to quickly fold and re-assimilate into the Borg.
Here’s what I want to know: How many of these Catholic hospitals are ALREADY providing (or referring) abortions and contraception TO PATIENTS in violation of Catholic teaching?