Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Holy war over health care law? Obama angers Catholic leaders

This is not just a Catholic issue. It's a freedom of religion issue and it is a VERY DANGEROUS precedent! It goes completely against what America is all about!

If this stands, the consequences to every other faith will be devastating. You will have the government dictating how you practice your faith, and THAT is why people came to America in the first place - to get away from government run religion. 

 Of course, they have that in China and many Islamic countries...
 
While President Obama will deliver another speech on the economy Wednesday in Northern Virginia to keep the focus on jobs, Catholic leaders across the country are warning another issue may blow up in his face come November.
Catholics are fired up over new rules implementing Obama's health care reform law forcing Catholic universities, hospitals, and charities to provide insurance for their employees covering contraception -- even though that violates church teachings.
"When you push people of faith and you tell them the government is going to knock down the wall of separation of church and state and overreach like the Obama administration, you've got a war on your hands," Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, told Fox News.
In an extraordinary move this past weekend, New York Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan and other archbishops throughout the nation had their priests read letters denouncing the Obama administration policy from the pulpit at Sunday Mass.
Read more and see video at Fox News...

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