GOP vows to reverse Obama birth control policy

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The fall-back position of the Obama Administration does nothing to really alter
the requirement that Religious organizations ( hospitals, education, charities etc. ) must offer contraceptive coverage through their insurance. Even by having the insurer foot the cost, it still would impact the group they cover.
The Obama Administration, by stating that 98% of women use contraceptive services, is an unintelligent way to justify the goverment position. Once again, they think they are best suited to decide such issues for citizens, without
really considering religious liberty or conscience regarding religious beliefs.
Proper methodology would indicate this is an issue to be decided from the bottom up, not from the top down. Catholic Bishops were not given an opportunity to voice their position, or to be considered in the decision. A whole host of notable organizations and prominent people have penned a letter that
denounces the Obama Administrations current position.
Please readers, mobilize to insure Obama does not get re-elected !

Joe Manville of CA 10:39PM February 11, 2012

The fall-back position of the Obama Administration does nothing to really alter
the requirement that Religious organizations ( hospitals, education, charities etc. ) must offer contraceptive coverage through their insurance. Even by having the insurer foot the cost, it still would impact the group they cover.
The Obama Administration, by stating that 98% of women use contraceptive services, is an unintelligent way to justify the goverment position. Once again, they think they are best suited to decide such issues for citizens, without
really considering religious liberty or conscience regarding religious beliefs.
Proper methodology would indicate this is an issue to be decided from the bottom up, not from the top down. Catholic Bishops were not given an opportunity to voice their position, or to be considered in the decision. A whole host of notable organizations and prominent people have penned a letter that
denounces the Obama Administrations current position.
Please readers, mobilize to insure Obama does not get re-elected !

Joe Manville of CA 10:37PM February 11, 2012

With more than 68.5 registered million members, Cathology is the largest single religious denomination in the United States, comprising about 22 percent of the population. According to a new 2011 study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, "The US Catholic population is currently 77.7 million."
...and then let's not forget the Hispanic population which, by the way, are largely Catholic!
You can be sure that every single eligible Catholic voter will make an appearance at the 2012 presidential election polls, and guess who will not get re-elected POTUS!!!
...this idiot just dug his own election grave (What a 110% tool!)
Harry Reasoner of Ma. states that he is now willing to take on the bookies at Vegas. He says... Here you go: http://www.betvega.com/2012-presidential-election-odds-020110/
Hope this is okay with you, H.R.

Randy Farmer of CO 9:10PM February 09, 2012

Women are not so stupid as to be pitted against each other on this issue. We KNOW that it is about our First Amendment protection for religious freedoms. Call the dem senators to tell them that. I did it yesterday.
Obama & the dems think that pitting people against each other & getting activists all angry will garner him votes.
This president & the dems MUST be stopped. They are power hungry; will do anything to get it; lie; create chaos, pit people against each other; encourage coveting; take-over anything & everything they can to remain in power. Don't fall for the lies.Obama is depending upon his angry activist base to re-elect him.
John Boehner needs to know WE support him.

lynda of PA 10:09AM February 09, 2012

As a Catholic & a Christian I abhor Obama abusing us in such coniving & deceitful way as to tell us to go against our religious beliefs against abortions including any chemical way to rid a human being He goes right into our faces to tell us what we have to do even though he is braking the first ammendment.

frances of FL 7:41PM February 08, 2012

Amazing, Pubs have finally found out about the separation between church and state.

Bing of AL 7:17PM February 08, 2012

Good for you, Mr. Speaker...
Here is the letter from Bishop Soto that denounces Obama's continuing onslaught to strip us of our First Amendment rights:
From the Diocese of Sacramento — Bishop Jaime Soto released a letter Jan. 25 to the faithful of the Diocese of Sacramento in response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ decision Jan. 20 that almost all employers, including Catholic employers, will be forced to offer their employees’ health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and contraception.
“Almost all health insurers will be forced to include those ‘services’ in the health policies they write,” Bishop Soto said. “And almost all individuals will be forced to buy that coverage as part of their policies.”
In its decision Jan. 20, the Obama administration turned down repeated requests from Catholic bishops, hospitals, schools and charitable organizations to revise its religious exemption to the requirement that all health plans cover contraceptives and sterilization free of charge. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced that nonprofit groups that do not provide contraceptive and sterilization coverage because of their religious beliefs will get an additional year “to adapt to this new rule.”
Bishop Soto asked the faithful to do two things. First, as a community of faith, “we must commit ourselves to prayer and fasting so that wisdom and justice may prevail and religious liberty may be restored.” Second, he asked the faithful to visit the website, www.usccb.org/conscience, to “learn more about this severe assault on religious liberty, and how to contact Congress in support of legislation that would reverse the administration’s decision.”
The bishop said “this is an alarming matter that negatively impacts the church in the United States directly. It strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith. The federal government, which claims to be ‘of, by and for the people,’ has just dealt a heavy blow to almost a quarter of those people – the Catholic population – and to the millions more who are served by the Catholic faithful.”
Additionally, Obama is intending to "Break The Back" Of 2nd Amendment In 2nd Term:
National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre explained that gun owners need "to do everything they can to make sure that President Obama does not get a second term so that he can destroy the Second Amendment":
LaPIERRE: Our job is to protect the Second Amendment and that means that every gun owner, every Second Amendment supporter needs to do everything they can to make sure that President Obama does not get a second term so that he can destroy the Second Amendment. And that's what's going to happen if he gets a second term.
Tell me again that Obama is not a Marxist!!!
VOTE ANYBODY BUT OBAMA IN 2012!!!

Randy Farmer of CO 4:11PM February 08, 2012