Lies, Lies
and More Lies
We’ve all heard of the “compromise”
Mr. Obama offered last week on the HHS mandate.
I wrote an article
last year about Mr. Obama’s “accommodation” and why it was a joke, and
unfortunately, the piece is still completely relevant since fundamentally what
he is suggesting now is exactly the same thing.
It is clear that if we are expecting
Mr. Obama to be reasonable on this issue, we are idiots. He will apparently only give in if he is forced to. And the Catholic Church just may be able to
force him to.
However, the secular media are doing
all they can to give the mistaken impression that what Mr. Obama has done is
just great for Catholics. I’ve seen
multiple articles in which the only “Catholic” source that was quoted was Catholics
United. Having this group speak for all Catholics
is like having the Communist party speak for business leaders.
We Catholics have got to make our
voices heard. Speak up, write letters,
mount bumper stickers, support organizations who are fighting. Our outcry must be clear and undivided – this
is not acceptable. It will never be
acceptable for the federal government to decide who is allowed to have a
conscience and how that conscience must be followed.
We hope for positive outcomes in the
courts, but we can’t count on them. The
bishops will not back down. We must
unite behind them so the government and media will not be able to push the lie
that Catholics are fuzzy on this issue.
