{"id":30851,"date":"2012-02-14T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_obamas_revised_hhs_mandate_wont_solve_problems_usccb_president_says\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T17:00:11","slug":"cns_obamas_revised_hhs_mandate_wont_solve_problems_usccb_president_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30851","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) Obama&#39;s revised HHS mandate won&#39;t solve problems, USCCB president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We bishops are pastors, we&#8217;re not politicians, and you can&#8217;t compromise on principle,&#8221; said Cardinal-designate [Timothy] Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. &#8220;And the goal posts haven&#8217;t moved and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a 50-yard line compromise here,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in the business of reconciliation, so it&#8217;s not that we hold fast, that we&#8217;re stubborn ideologues, no. But we don&#8217;t see much sign of any compromise,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What (Obama) offered was next to nothing. There&#8217;s no change, for instance, in these terribly restrictive mandates and this grossly restrictive definition of what constitutes a religious entity,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The principle wasn&#8217;t touched at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1200596.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We bishops are pastors, we&#8217;re not politicians, and you can&#8217;t compromise on principle,&#8221; said Cardinal-designate [Timothy] Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. &#8220;And the goal posts haven&#8217;t moved and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a 50-yard line compromise<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30851\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,101,104,114,96,98,616,151,667,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}