this public appearance<\/a>\u00a0Nancy Pelosi says the Catholic Church wants to ban contraceptives.<\/p>\nThis is part of a political ploy in election year. The HHS Mandate was a set up. It wasn\u2019t about women\u2019s health. It wasn\u2019t about contraceptives per se<\/i>. It was a way to set the Catholic Church against the Obama administration and then, by November, to portray the Catholic Church and the Republican party as being in an anti-contraception alliance.<\/p>\n
Nothing wins over the crowds more effectively than a common enemy, and who better a common enemy than the Catholic Church with their weird \u201canti contraception\u201d and no free sex rules?<\/p>\n
They will try to say that not only is the Catholic Church opposed to contraception, but it wants to ban it. Pelosi\u2019s comments prove it. The stage for this make believe drama was first set by George Stephanapolos\u2019 question to Romney in a debate. He asked, \u201cDo you think a State has a right to ban contraception?\u201d Romney was floored. Where did he get such a crazy idea? Stephanapolos hammered away, not allowing evasion. Then at last week\u2019s debate the CNN moderator asked a similar question: \u201cWhich candidate is in favor of contraception?\u201d<\/p>\n
This political ploy will accomplish several things for the President: 1. By shifting the abortion debate away from abortion to contraception the two things will be merged. Indeed, they may well use Catholic and pro-life rhetoric in order to show that abortion and contraception are linked. The reasoning on the left will be: \u201cNobody is against contraception. Abortion is a form of contraception. Abortion is legal. So cut the anti abortion argument. It just doesn\u2019t apply because everybody is already in favor of contraception. 2. The Republicans \u00a0(especially if Santorum continues to rise and is even nominated) will be portrayed as being allied to the Catholic Church. This will allow all the historic anti-Catholic rhetoric to be brought out, but this time not by anti-Catholic Protestants, but by radical atheists and secularists who hate the Catholic Church. 3. After the election the POTUS will see the imminent defeat of this HHS Mandate, and happily put it on one side and grant everybody an exemption who wants one, because it wasn\u2019t about health care for poor women to start with.<\/p>\n
It was about winning the election.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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