Key Catholic Ally Jumps Sinking ObamaCare Ship

Freedom Of Worship: A group representing Catholic hospitals says the administration's "compromise" on its contraception mandate is unworkable and fails to address the issue of religious liberty. The church is virtually unified in its opposition. The Catholic Hospital Association (CHA) on Friday pulled back the thin reed of religious support for ObamaCare the administration had been clinging to in insisting the Affordable Health Care Act, the constitutionality of which is about to be determined by the Supreme Court, was not a full-blown assault on our constitutionally guaranteed religious liberty.

CHA represents more than 600 of the nation's 5,000 hospitals and has more than 2,000 members, if you include nursing homes and other similar facilities. One in every six hospital patients in the U.S. receives medical care in a Catholic hospital.

The idiots in the Obama Administration tried to pull a fast one on religious groups....

"The association had been conducting a review of the "compromise" offered by President Obama himself." "Embedded in the mandate is a radically new definition of what constitutes a religious community, what constitutes religious ministry, said Wuerl."

The new definition says you're not really religious if you serve people other than your own and if you hire people other than your own

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Now you have the Catholic Church virtually united against you Obama!

Since the 1960s, the percentage of Americans who are Catholic has stayed roughly the same rate, at around 25%- and Obama has thoroughly pissed them off.

Good luck in the contest!
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It is like he is trying to lose. Maybe he wants more time to work on his golf game.

Could be he is an agent of the Koch brothers (boo) as he is destroying the democrat brand.

He never had the Catholic church anyway... don't think it means much other than more enthusiasm to go vote.

Ryt_Rick wrote: He never had the Catholic church anyway... don't think it means much other than more enthusiasm to go vote.

You're right...most Catholics and Evangelicals will never be on the liberal side......no matter who is running as a democrat. I believe he has done what he wanted to push woman's issues....both because I think he believes in them and because it does help him politically. Even some Catholic women may vote Democrat because personal issues sometimes trump religious ones. They just won't tell the parish priest what they have done.

Obama did pretty well with the Catholic vote last time, but I don't think it will be be 50/50 this year. More like he will get 40% of the vote. While Obama loses on the forcing Catholics to pay for others' contraception, he gains from the Catholics who like to aid their fellow man.

You're right...most Catholics and Evangelicals will never be on the liberal side......no matter who is running as a democrat.

I think there is also a major mis-understanding about Catholics- lumping them in with Evangelicals would be a big mistake.

I'd say that the catholic church in the US has more Democrats in it than conservatives. At least this has been my experience attending church in different parts of the country.

In California- there might even be 2 democrats for every conservative in church on Sunday. If you figure that many of the east coast liberal cities have a large catholic demography- and don't forget the latino's in the west.

Pissing off the Catholic church is not somthing that any Democrat would be wanting to do- But Obama does not seem to mind. All over this country- Catholics will be hearing about what Obama has tried to do to Catholic values in mass on Sunday's- and many of the parishioners will be taking notice.

There are Catholics who truly follow their religion and all its trappings....and then there are Catholics who are part of the religion just because they were brought up as Catholics. The true believers are not so different from evangelicals. But yes, those that think for themselves may well be liberals. The desire to be part of a party that cares about people outweighs the abortion/contraception issue apparently.