March for Life Roundup – UPDATED

WE Catholics are excoriated because of our abortion views and our views on so-called gay marriage. Yet Muslims are not condemned for their desire to kill women and children or their penchant for hiding behind those selfsame women and children.

However, as a Catholic woman of a “certain age” – I gave up expecting “fair” a long time ago!

I so wanted to go this year. But I am just too tied up with work to take off. I’m even going to be in Virginia at the beginning of the week but just not close enough to swing by D.C. Next year, I hope. God bless all who March on Monday.

Just read an interesting post by a liberal democrat supporter of Obama on the HHS decision taking away religious freedom. http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/jaccuse

Thoughts after reading this article in the liberal catholic paper.

I have deeply disagreed with Michael Sean Winters in the past on most issues, but always saw his writing ability as first class. Here he uses the Zola style of “I Accuse” toward Obama for this action. He calls this decision “much more than a disaster”.

One sentence in the statement from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stands out: “The administration remains fully committed to its partnerships with faith-based organizations, which promote healthy communities and serve the common good.”

What can those words “fully committed” possibly mean? They have punched Sr. Carol Keehan and Fr. Jenkins and many other Catholics who have taken shots for this Administration in the nose. They have jumped over the First Amendment to coerce religious organizations to do something we find morally objectionable. They have given people who loved the Affordable Care Act reason for pause, great pause. They have given the Republicans a huge battering ram with which to beat swing voting Catholics over the head.”

Winters is right that this decision is a huge blow to liberal Catholics who have tried to cover for Obama. Winters is wrong that the President’s decision comes as any sort of surprise. Of course Obama would throw his liberal Catholics supporters under the bus to please his leftist secular supporters. Obama’s wedding with liberal Catholics has always been one of convenience and he just filed the divorce papers. I therefore find it hard to sympathize with liberal Catholics who are shocked by this decision, because I’ve been warning for years that their relationship with Obama was bound to end in heartbreak.

I respect Winters for standing up for religious liberty and to criticize a President he supported as a candidate. I applaud him and I hope that more liberal Catholics acknowledge how foolish they have been to support Obama’s anti-Catholic policies. I urge them to join all Catholics in common cause to begin to address this deplorable state of affairs created by this most abortion loving president in our history. He has certainly shown why Planned Parenthood called Obama their Partner on their web site.

Meanwhile pro abortion liberals where out in force trying to lock Obama in on this decision less he backpedal to the Catholic church. http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/20/407994/obama-administration-approves-rule-that-guarantees-near-universal-contraceptive-coverage/?mobile=nc

Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, along with other preventive services, with no cost-sharing such as co-pays or deductibles. This means that after years of trying to get birth control covered to the same extent that health plans cover Viagra, our country will finally have nearly universal coverage of contraception.

Opponents of contraception had lobbied hard for a broad exemption that would have allowed any religiously-affiliated employer to opt out of providing such coverage. Fortunately, the Obama administration rejected that push and decided to maintain the narrow religious exemption that it initially proposed. Only houses of worship and other religious nonprofits that primarily employ and serve people of the same faith will be exempt. Religiously-affiliated employers who do not qualify for the exemption and are not currently offering contraceptive coverage may apply for transitional relief for a one-year period to give them time to determine how to comply with the rule.