Catholic Bishops begin to get it right

After the P-BO tried to fool the American people with a non-compromise “compromise” Bishop Dolan, the head of American bishops, issued this statement:

"Today's decision to revise how individuals obtain services that are morally objectionable to religious entities and people of faith is a first step in the right direction. We hope to work with the Administration to guarantee that Americans' consciences and our religious freedom are not harmed by these regulations."

I thought, oh crap, they fell for it. I was outraged that they would surrender this issue as soon as their ox stopped being gored by an intrusive government bent on making taxpayers and everyone who holds an insurance policy support all manner of deviant destruction of life. If the government can require insurance companies to offer life ending “medical procedures” where does the government’s authority stop? Can they then require each of us to house a OWS loser for the summer while they go about destroying the country? Can they require that everyone with more than one car be forced to purchase a Chevy Fire Trap (aka Chevy Volt)?

I thought the bishops were ready to return the status quo ante, a time when they turned a blind eye to the excesses of the Demo-Dope party. Then this statement was released by the Catholic Bishops that pretty much puts them back in line with church doctrine and sends the P-BO and his idiot HHS Sec back to the drawing board.

Here are just few gems from the statement:

First, we objected to the rule forcing private health plans — nationwide, by the stroke of a bureaucrat's pen—to cover sterilization and contraception, including drugs that may cause abortion. All the other mandated "preventive services" prevent disease, and pregnancy is not a disease. Moreover, forcing plans to cover abortifacients violates existing federal conscience laws. Therefore, we called for the rescission of the mandate altogether.


Second, we explained that the mandate would impose a burden of unprecedented reach and severity on the consciences of those who consider such "services" immoral: insurers forced to write policies including this coverage; employers and schools forced to sponsor and subsidize the coverage; and individual employees and students forced to pay premiums for the coverage. We therefore urged HHS, if it insisted on keeping the mandate, to provide a conscience exemption for all of these stakeholders—not just the extremely small subset of "religious employers" that HHS proposed to exempt initially.


But stepping away from the particulars, we note that today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held convictions. In a nation dedicated to religious liberty as its first and founding principle, we should not be limited to negotiating within these parameters. The only complete solution to this religious liberty problem is for HHS to rescind the mandate of these objectionable services.

We will therefore continue—with no less vigor, no less sense of urgency—our efforts to correct this problem through the other two branches of government. For example, we renew our call on Congress to pass, and the Administration to sign, the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act. And we renew our call to the Catholic faithful, and to all our fellow Americans, to join together in this effort to protect religious liberty and freedom of conscience for all.

Now if the Catholic Bishops would issue a statement that indicates Catholics, like Slowest of all Joes, Joe shovel ready Biden, Cambodian war hero John Françoise Kerry and Grand Fran Nan Peloser, who support the HHS decision should stop taking communion and consider a change of religion, they’d have hit a home run.

Oh, and don’t fall the Lib BS trick of polling info that indicates 60+% of Catholics want free contraceptives. 100% of Catholics want free ice cream. Ask the question this way: Do you support your cash strapped family paying additional insurance fees to pay for some woman’s 5th abortion in two years? Or, Do you support the government forcing Americans to purchase anything? That 60+% would dip to about 20% pretty quick.

If the bishops win the battle for an exemption from P-BOcare based on “conscience”, you’ll be amazed how quickly about 98% of Americans develop a conscience.