{"id":6957,"date":"2012-03-05T00:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/?p=6957"},"modified":"2017-01-24T18:12:14","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T23:12:14","slug":"the-politics-of-the-hhs-mandate-made-clear-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/yimcatholic\/2012\/03\/the-politics-of-the-hhs-mandate-made-clear-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of the HHS Mandate Made Clear, Part Deux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Remember the other day when I said \u201cit\u2019s all about getting votes for the incumbent, and staying in power?<\/a>\u201d One doesn\u2019t have to be Sun Tzu to have figured this out. The trick is not to look suspicious. You know, make them watch one hand\u2026instead of the one that\u2019s ripping them off.<\/p>\n

The folks on The Hill<\/em> noticed,<\/p>\n

Obama asks to deliver commencement speech at New York women\u2019s college<\/strong>
\nBy Amie Parnes\t <\/p>\n

President Obama will address the graduates of Barnard College at this year\u2019s commencement, The Hill<\/em> has confirmed.<\/p>\n

Obama will deliver the keynote address at the women\u2019s college in New York on May 14.<\/p>\n

The White House called the college in recent days and offered up Obama as the commencement speaker and the college promptly accepted. Originally, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson was set to address the graduates before the White House called the college. The president and his fellow Democrats have made women a focus of their campaigns of late.<\/p>\n

Obama recently found himself in the middle of a contraception debate, after his administration issued a rule requiring health insurers \u2014 including some religious organizations such as charities and hospitals \u2014 to cover contraception without a co-pay<\/a>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh. Who knew? The headline should have read, \u201cPresident Obama Begs<\/em> to Speak at Commencement at New York women\u2019s college.\u201d That way, it would have been more accurate.<\/p>\n

Plenty of us know the truth here, but plenty still don\u2019t. So be of good cheer! Wake your friends and phone the neighbors, and let them know that the hype about women\u2019s rights is just that. Hype. In fact, it\u2019s complete balderdash, as the Center for Disease Control makes it known<\/a> that folks who want contraception can find it easily and cheaply. Been to a Walgreens or CVS lately? Get real.<\/p>\n

No. The issue is what it has been since the beginning: a creeping diminution of our Constitutional rights, and we\u2019re not going to let it continue. The thing of it is, we have to fight this fight in the manner of happy warriors. Warriors who speak with reason, charity, and compassion, but also with the clarity to make it known that this isn\u2019t a women\u2019s rights\/ women\u2019s health issue. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the evening of our life,\u201d wrote St John of the Cross, \u201cwe will be judged on love alone.\u201d Maybe that\u2019s what this New Evangelization thing is all about, and why this is all happening now. What difference would it make if our love were as public, as political, as visible and tactile, as headline-making, as undeniable as our principles? What if, instead of tithing mint and rue, we lived God\u2019s infinite providence? What if we lifted burdens instead of laying them? What if new generations were to say, \u201cSee how these Christians love us all!\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because it\u2019s much bigger than that, and more important too<\/a>. It\u2019s a human rights, civil rights, and civil liberties issue for all citizens.<\/p>\n

So take a note from the playbook of the Apostles. Don\u2019t get angry about a little white martydom. Share the Good News with charity and clarity and remember to do like St. Peter & Company did when the Sanhedrin,<\/p>\n

had them flogged, ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them. So they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name. And all day long, both at the temple and in their homes, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the Messiah, Jesus<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s the spirit. Caritas in veritate, or bust!<\/p>\n

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