White House advisors, including one of President Obama’s top faith consultants, are signaling a potential compromise on a controversial new mandate that requires some religious institutions to cover contraception costs for employees.
David Axelrod, a senior campaign adviser for the Obama reelection campaign, said Tuesday that Obama may be open to a compromise that would expand a religious exemption in the new Health & Human Services mandate to satisfy religious groups.
“We certainly don’t want to abridge anyone’s religious freedoms,” Axelrod said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “So we’re going to look for a way to move forward that both provides women with the preventive care that they need and respects the prerogatives of religious institutions.”
[i]”We certainly don’t want to abridge anyone’s religious freedoms,” Axelrod said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” [/i]
At least not until after the November election; then we will grind you into the dust, or haul you away in the middle of the night as a domestic terrorist, never to be seen again.
Agreed. What a bunch of [Edited by Elf].
The Administration is also selling beach front property in Kansas at bargain basement prices.
“There are conversations right now to arrange a meeting to talk with folks about how this policy can be nuanced,†Isn’t that just another way of saying “lets call it something that sounds like what it isn’t”? Or as another poster said on another post, “Just beause a cat has kittens in the oven, doesn’t make them bisquits. No matter what they call it, forcing religious affiliated organizations to provide anything in violation of the religious doctrcnes of the faith amounts to “disestablishing” the federal doctrine as handed down by the Supreme Court as regards seperation of Churach and State. If you can not pray in school because of this “seperation”, why should the government be allowed to determine what the doctrines of the Church are or how they will be followed? The Federal government would be in fact telling the Roman Catholic Church and all other churches that they can not live their faith unless the government approves it. I see it as an attack on religious liberty and not a contraceptive or abortion issue. Besides that, what says the these institutions MUST provide health coverage of any kind except, a law whose constitutionality and validity are being challeenged by over half of the states in the country. Additionally, who elected the Secretary of Health and Human Services to rule over us. It is time that the Obamanation realized this is not a dictatorship, there is a God, and He isn’t Obama.