Doug Groothuis points to an informative article by James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal looking at the debate over religious liberty that has been brought about by ObamaCare. It is a long article, but worth the read. It begins,
The
president of the U.S. Conference of Bishops is careful to show due
respect for the president of the United States. "I was deeply honored
that he would call me and discuss these things with me," says the newly
elevated Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York. But when
Archbishop Dolan tells me his account of their discussions of the
ObamaCare birth-control mandate, Barack Obama sounds imperious and
deceitful to me.
Mr.
Obama knew that the mandate would pose difficulties for the Catholic
Church, so he invited Archbishop Dolan to the Oval Office last November,
shortly before the bishops' General Assembly in Baltimore. At the end
of their 45-minute discussion, the archbishop summed up what he
understood as the president's message:
"I
said, 'I've heard you say, first of all, that you have immense regard
for the work of the Catholic Church in the United States in health care,
education and charity. . . . I have heard you say that you are not
going to let the administration do anything to impede that work and . . .
that you take the protection of the rights of conscience with the
utmost seriousness. . . . Does that accurately sum up our conversation?'
[Mr. Obama] said, 'You bet it does.'"
Read the rest here.
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