Obama’s Birth Control Mandate Angers Church Leaders

Following President Obama's controversial decision to require religiously affiliated employers to supply full birth control, some religious leaders are feeling betrayed. Catholic League president Bill Donohue says this mandate is only opening the door for the Catholic Church to provide more abortion coverage.

January 26, 2012 at 2:26 pm - WOR
Dateline: New York
urinthematrix   January 26th, 2012 - 2:30 pm

I won't hold my breath waiting for Rev. Al "Resist we much" Sharpton to raise hell over this. Wouldn't want to upset the Dear Leader.

batcountry   January 26th, 2012 - 2:36 pm

Obama and his cronies want to control every aspect of our lives, this is just yet another feeble attempt by a one term president.

ratfinder   January 26th, 2012 - 2:36 pm

I seem to recall some senator giving a yes vote for Obama care if there was no Abortion mandate, and Obama even signed an executive order saying an Abortion mandate would not be in Obama care…. Just another stupid democrat senator and another Obama lie.

JamestheFin   January 26th, 2012 - 2:36 pm

The atheistic war on Christianity continues. They've won in Europe, now they are moving on to the US and they'll make the US ripe to be conquered by Islam just as they've laid the foundations for in Europe to be conquered by Islam.

FamousDrScanlon   January 26th, 2012 - 2:39 pm

….The Death President…..

BBReggie   January 26th, 2012 - 2:42 pm

There is nothing unclear about the words of the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" Neither he nor Congress can prohibit the free exercise of religion. I hope this goes immediately to court.

Cowboy Logic   January 26th, 2012 - 2:44 pm

Obama is all things.

Obama is the Messiah.

Just wait until Obama institutes Female Genital Mutilation.

Duuuuh   January 26th, 2012 - 2:45 pm

Forcing provisions necessary for a reduction in a conservative religious population while promoting and funding the growth of welfare programs to assist those raising young liberal recipients beholden to the government for their very existance.

Ah socialism and social engineering!…. Those chickens are coming home to roost.

NunChucks   January 26th, 2012 - 2:46 pm

The only thing standing in the way of abortion, gay marriage, and the multitude of promiscuous and evil elements that lead to the destruction of a civilizations is RELIGION. And so the work of Obama has and always will be the diminishment and removal of Religion from the soul of America. Dear God, please help us protect America from Obama and please help us to restore America to her moral foundation.

Bullonay   January 26th, 2012 - 2:48 pm

Too bad they did not have this in Hawaii in 1961…

snailmailtrucker   January 26th, 2012 - 2:48 pm

Why does the Anti-Christ have anything to say about how Religions can conduct their business?

Tweety58   January 26th, 2012 - 2:49 pm

Obama is an Anti-Christ.He is trying to force Catholic and non-Catholic Christian Organizations to betray their Faith and bow to Satan..

We will render unto God NOT CAESAR.The Catholic Church,the Orthodox,Evangelicals and other Christian Churches who have not embraced abortion will not comply.Christians should fight this tooth and nail as this is the latest secular and governmental assault by this pathetic Nero who HATES us.

Fight back tooth and nail and prepare for personal persecution for your Faith.

I call on our elder brothers-the Jews to join this battle against the Culture of Death and this bloody tyrannical Nero and for religious liberty..

Obamarrhoids1   January 26th, 2012 - 2:50 pm

Obama loves when Christian & Jewish babies are aborted. Muslim ones, not so much.

M-I-DOUBLE TIZZLE   January 26th, 2012 - 2:50 pm

Making them available doesn't mean you have to take them.
Unless you're on the dole, then they should be mandatory.

GUNNYG   January 26th, 2012 - 2:55 pm

Obama's should have rolled over and shot him on the floor.

THEANTILIBERALZONE dot COM

Motleycroo   January 26th, 2012 - 2:55 pm

We need to get back to the people controlling the government instead of the government controlling the people.

rowley   January 26th, 2012 - 2:57 pm

Obama is imposing his religion on the nation.

Shiori   January 26th, 2012 - 3:00 pm

54% of American Catholics voted for Obama in 2008.

What did you learn?

GobBluth   January 26th, 2012 - 3:00 pm

Birth control is not abortion. Insurance is not religious. No one is forcing you to buy or use birth control. Lighten up, Francis

Sarcastic   January 26th, 2012 - 3:02 pm

Obama hates Christianity of any kind. He only answers to allah (small a).

Oregontea   January 26th, 2012 - 3:03 pm

When you try to please all of the people all of the time, you please none at all. This from the man who was "present" in the Senate.

Pathetic, a man with no principles at all.

Sarcastic   January 26th, 2012 - 3:04 pm

Yes, your daughters, granddaughters, etc, et al. Free black burqas for all!

batcountry   January 26th, 2012 - 3:06 pm

Hospices are now adding Haloperidol to patients death cocktail. This very disturbing, I can understand the Morphine or anti-anxiety medication. This is a nasty drug, one has to wonder if euthanasia has taken a very cruel turn and who dictated this meds use.

jackrabbid   January 26th, 2012 - 3:06 pm

The IMMACULATE ONE! MMM MMM MM

LibertyWriter   January 26th, 2012 - 3:10 pm

They will shove it down our throats… if we let them.

Obama, just take your payoff and get the hell out of town

Duuuuh   January 26th, 2012 - 3:11 pm

That probably wouldn't have made a difference. ;-)

bmmg39   January 26th, 2012 - 3:13 pm

From what I've heard of Donohue, he's not much for toeing the line on the contraception issue. Notice he immediately jumps from contraception to abortion.

It seems to me…if you want insurance that covers contraception, then go find some.

Tweety58   January 26th, 2012 - 3:16 pm

CINOs.Who never attend mass nor partake of the Sacraments and lead sinful lives.We orthodox Catholics would NEVER vote for this POS and heterodox unfaithful Catholics-who are ethnic,cultural,familial,cafeteria,Catholics in name only who IDENTIFY as Catholic as none might identify as Irish or Italian but whom are anything BUT Catholic.Even Christ had a Judas.

Tweety58   January 26th, 2012 - 3:18 pm

The morning after pill IS abortive numbnuts.

PushHereToFlush   January 26th, 2012 - 3:19 pm

This is just more of the Marxist march to eradicate all religions except the worship of state. Obama and his fellow Marxists don't want the religious demograpic to overtake the Marxist demographic by out-reproducing them, so they are moving birth control and abortion into the chuch.

szysgt   January 26th, 2012 - 3:19 pm

I'm with ya' Tweety58.

Lexington1775   January 26th, 2012 - 3:19 pm

Maybe that's why his wife always looks pissed off and disgusted. I'm not sure who's more revolting, him or her.

Lamdog   January 26th, 2012 - 3:22 pm

Now your upset? Should have been upset when he overturned the Mexico rule the third day in office. There is no such animal as a Pro-Life Democrat, as long as you understand this you will not be upset. You got exactly what you voted for in all its glory.

rockon11   January 26th, 2012 - 3:25 pm

now u people know he lied saying he was a christian hello mcfly!!!!

skipper99   January 26th, 2012 - 3:31 pm

Ain't it great? With obama we do not need a Congress, as he does everything by executive order. For any other laws he does not agree with, he simply ignores them along with holder at DO-injustice.

Obamarrhoids1   January 26th, 2012 - 3:33 pm

Child killer.

Tweety58   January 26th, 2012 - 3:33 pm

My favorite elder brother(sister?) ;-)

richardporter   January 26th, 2012 - 3:38 pm

Are you speaking from experience?

nomname   January 26th, 2012 - 3:40 pm

The ones who did are mostly union members. They put their greed for money before their respect for God. Sad, but true. But then, Pelosi calls herself a Catholic. So did the Kennedy clan and John Kerry.

nomname   January 26th, 2012 - 3:45 pm

Obama voted for the most horrific abortions; late term, partial birth, and voted to keep those who survived the abortion cold, hungry and in pain, totally alone to die, however long it takes. Oh he is a prince , all right. He makes Mengele look like Santa Claus.

Grace656   January 26th, 2012 - 3:50 pm

I agree, he's a disgusting human being to be able to accept that as an outcome.

I think many liberal Catholics will do a double take on this stance. Separating church from state is supposed to protect both sides from the other. This is breaking down that wall of separation.

Grace656   January 26th, 2012 - 3:54 pm

Hell, Obama thinks he is god.

ihearttexas   January 26th, 2012 - 3:55 pm

They feel betrayed? Oh boo-hoo. That's what you get for being stupid. You chose your side and now you must live with it.

WorldclaZZ   January 26th, 2012 - 3:59 pm

Kemosabe, Barack Obumbler speak with forked tongue.

LuKuj   January 26th, 2012 - 4:01 pm

Anyone who trusts this president is ignorant of what he is really like. If I knew he wouldn't keep the promise, he should have known also. I think it is Sopchek (sp?) you are thinking about.

LuKuj   January 26th, 2012 - 4:05 pm

I don't think he will get this percentage again. Those of us who knew what Obama was like tried to tell our fellow Catholics, but they didn't listen. Now they are reaping the consequences,unfortunately. The bishops have released a non-political statement that was read at Masses this week explaining Obama's decision. Every Catholic who heard it is morally obligated NOT to vote for him, though that doesn't mean they won't. Please note I said a non-political statement. Not one word was said to advocate voting for a particular person or party. I think far fewer Catholics will vote for someone who is telling them they have to pay for others to do what they consider a sin.

FamousDrScanlon   January 26th, 2012 - 4:05 pm

….Bart Stupak, Democrat Congressman from Michigan…

fightingO   January 26th, 2012 - 4:06 pm

Shame his mother didn't know about birth control.

szysgt   January 26th, 2012 - 4:16 pm

Aw shucks!

It would be elder sister, bro.

nomname   January 26th, 2012 - 4:17 pm

I have tried to explain to Catholics, who serve the labor unions first, just what they are voting for, and what they are voting against for YEARS. It is impossible to get them to think beyond their pocketbooks or fond memories of their dads and how much the unions "helped" them. Serving Satan through their own refusal to look at the truth. Yet I still see them at Mass, taking communion, every Sunday.

But then Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi call(ed) themselves Catholic while passing abortion laws.

Barnacle Barry   January 26th, 2012 - 4:29 pm

Short wait, I'm thinking.

Barnacle Barry   January 26th, 2012 - 4:30 pm

Muzzies hate Catholics. Any questions?

Barnacle Barry   January 26th, 2012 - 4:31 pm

Are you speaking from your ass?

ratfinder   January 26th, 2012 - 4:34 pm

Thats right, Thank You

CanAirFarce   January 26th, 2012 - 4:36 pm

Birth Control does not equal to Abortion

FamousDrScanlon   January 26th, 2012 - 4:37 pm

…You're very welcome….

claspur   January 26th, 2012 - 4:37 pm

The day Soetoro got sworn-in (twice), I said he was going to make sure he got a lot of people killed.
He's just got started, and then when he is gone, the aftermath of what he's done-people will be dying for a couple decades from his actions now…..you watch.

Tweety58   January 26th, 2012 - 4:38 pm

L'hitraot Akhot g'dola.:-)

johnmann   January 26th, 2012 - 4:45 pm

Catholics voted for Obama… Catholics have to accept contraception, and, later, abortion… much later, gays in the clergy cannot be discriminated against. Church doctrines are slowly changed from within… Big Brother puppet becomes Pope. Finally, church questions the validity of Christ's resurrection.

johnmann   January 26th, 2012 - 4:50 pm

Abortion pills are included in this "Birth Control" mandate… so Obama already crossed the Rubicon.

LuKuj   January 26th, 2012 - 4:54 pm

Thanks! couldn't recall the exact name.

A_pen   January 26th, 2012 - 4:55 pm

Those Catholics better get with the king Obama version of the Bible or they'll find themselves irrelevant as he installs a Catholic Czar to implement social justice in the church. The list of grievances is short but include lowering taxes once the church has paid it's fair share, allowing gay and lesbian bishops to practice without discrimination, birth control so nuns can remain in the convent even if they are secretly violating vows and setting an example for the youth so they might join knowing they won't get bullied and of course, abortions so all those hospitals run by the church stop interfering with my demands. San Francisco will be renamed the den of iniquity too just as a fair trade.

claspur   January 26th, 2012 - 4:57 pm

CL…
Was in here this morning-early, and A_Pen had this article posted.
A lot of it is of things I'm already well-aware of, but sent it out and about today, to friends and enemies.
It's wriiten by this talk radio gal out in Washington State… a Laurie Roth.
Did some searching around about her… she's pretty awesome, and read that she'd be down in that courtroom today in Georgia, waiting for Soetoro to show. She's mentioned in those WND articles I noticedthis afternoon too.
She's filed suit against Soetoro also. :o ) This broad's got Balls ! lol
http://therothshow.com/2012/01/transformation-and...

claspur   January 26th, 2012 - 5:01 pm

Honor killings of daughters, and female babies every now and then is okay though.

MSMediacritic   January 26th, 2012 - 5:05 pm

I agree 100%

MSMediacritic   January 26th, 2012 - 5:05 pm

Not at all surprised. Not at all.

claspur   January 26th, 2012 - 5:06 pm

Gunny read this, then go to read about Soetoro not appearing for his subpoenaed court hearing-in Georgia this morning, on WorldnetDaily….three articles there.
(notice-then, the writter of this article was there in the courtroom today, fileing suit against this usurper)
Article by Laurie Roth: http://therothshow.com/2012/01/transformation-and...

adamkon1104   January 26th, 2012 - 6:09 pm

He wouldn't even run for re-election after doing that.because he was so reviled by the people in his district

CaptainPatriot   January 26th, 2012 - 6:10 pm

How much longer is America going to let Obama get away with unconstitutional mandates!! Obama has no authority to mandate anything with any church!!!

M-I-DOUBLE TIZZLE   January 26th, 2012 - 7:24 pm

Contraception?

pat4rush   January 26th, 2012 - 11:31 pm

His religion is atheism. He's a megalomaniac.

pat4rush   January 26th, 2012 - 11:32 pm

he's not a muslim, he's an atheist. president death.

pat4rush   January 26th, 2012 - 11:34 pm

I can't believe how people even voted for this Obamacare monstrosity. We were all warned it was so full of loopholes and vagueness that it would open the door to state funded abortions. We all knew that. Except for these morons Stupak Stupid and Nelson Gelson. And the media was in awe when Revered Leader Obama signed the presidential order. Suddenly, he was a saint who had made a great compromise. Somehow, for Dear Leader, there aren't enough abortions in this country.

Bullonay   January 27th, 2012 - 12:05 am

You're probably right, commies don't use them…

dbkaczor   January 27th, 2012 - 5:29 am

it is positively mind blowing how much time, energy and money we will have to expend to get rid of this unconstitutional piece of cr*p. its unconstitutional and should have been disregarded on day one. obama s*cks.

i guess this was his master plan to keep us busy while he infiltrates the country with radical muslims.

dbkaczor   January 27th, 2012 - 5:46 am

my only question is why is this man still walking the earth?

dbkaczor   January 27th, 2012 - 5:52 am

its hard to believe i can possibly wake up each day and hate someone more with each passing day. but i do.

William_Z   January 27th, 2012 - 5:58 am

Hey, he said American wasn’t a Christian country, and everyone from the left, and the libertarians, are all for abortion, and all this is great, soon Eugenics will kick into high gear and there’ll be a government cap on the number of children people will be able to have! This is what people wanted, and—enjoy that government ‘health care’ so everything goes the way as planned.

Obamarrhoids1   January 27th, 2012 - 6:29 am

Baby murderer.

pattiofurniture   January 27th, 2012 - 6:51 am

Betrayed! Remember the comments Michelle made about how she despised "white Irish Catholics" in Chicago……. These two are a perfect example of the "selectively applied" principle of diversity…. Catholics need not apply…… oops, I forgot to include the Jews.

hugh544118   January 27th, 2012 - 11:15 am

Obama doesn't make mistakes. He just lies every time he opens his mouth. If he has any truth in his conscience, it is buried under a pile of lies so huge as to shield his truth from showing . I think he really is a destructer of America's systems. I expect him to declare himself as supreme leader at any time.

amagikid   January 27th, 2012 - 1:59 pm

Tea Party Express Bus Is Rolling Through Florida
http://www.teapartyexpress.org/3273/tea-party-exp...

“Rallying for Victory” Tour to Bring Tea Party Issues to the Fore

Jacksonville, FL – Tea Party Express, the nation’s largest tea party political action committee, is excited to announce the launch of its “Rallying for Victory” bus tour through Florida. The tour will start this Saturday, January 28th and will make six stops up and down the Sunshine State.

Amy Kremer, Chairman of the Tea Party Express, said, “The Tea Party Express is here rallying for victory against the policies of Barack Obama and the Harry Reid-led Senate. The current Administration has showed zero leadership and interest in listening to the voice of the American people. Our ‘Rallying for Victory’ tour through Florida will be an exhibition of the Tea Party’s strength and determination in pursuing and promoting Tea Party values.

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“Our ‘Rallying for Victory’ bus tour will bring together local and national Tea Party activist to raise awareness of the Tea Party movement and the conservative principles that will put this nation back on the path to prosperity. It is an opportunity to inform the American people that there is a free-market solution to get the economy on the right track and that the president’s actions have not accomplished what he has promised,” Kremer concluded.

The Tea Party Express plans to make stops in Jacksonville, Winter Park, West Palm Beach, The Villages, Gainesville, Panama City and Pensacola. The Tea Party Express will be joined by conservative leaders from across the country and will provide a platform for Presidential candidates to present their Tea Party qualifications. The organization is directing the public to its website (www.TeaPartyExpress.org) for the details of the stops. http://www.teapartyexpress.org/press-releases

Sigint   January 27th, 2012 - 3:07 pm

Indeed Barry, too bad your mother didn't have and use free contraceptives when she was screwing around with that married African grad student.

Duuuuh   January 27th, 2012 - 7:32 pm

… especially in foreign countries.

(Damn… I swore I'd let that birth certificate thing go. Seems I just can't seem to help myself. ;-)

uncorrectedvis   January 27th, 2012 - 8:30 pm

Speaking as a live long, kindergarten through bachelor degree Catholic who has taught CCD classes and Freshman and Junior religion classes in a Catholic High School – I can only say, WHO CARES WHAT CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADERS HAVE TO SAY.

Catholic Church leaders have been far too passive, understanding and accepting of liberals doing everything they can to destroy the long held cultural and religious values that a more vigorous Church once fought to defend. Rather than fight the destruction of virtue embodied in normalizing homosexuality, wide spread promiscuity, drug use and abortion, the Church has been passive with its own flock. The soft peddled admonitions against a sinful and promiscuous life from priests, too many of whom have kept their own deadly sins hidden, has given parishioners tacit approval or political cover under Catholic social teaching.

Time to take off the gloves. When Notre Dame University invites a man to speak at commencement who is a stalwart and unflagging supporter of late term abortion and opposes "born alive" legislation it should not matter that he is or is not President – it is scandalous.

Over 50% of Catholics voted for Obama. This is the shame of the Church. Allowing liberal priests, other religious and laity to turn Catholic social teaching into socialism could have absolutely no other result. One need only look at Europe to see the future of the Catholic Church in America. Europe is a place where cathedrals have become museums from which priests retire and where old women pray. It is a place where paganism and atheism are on the rise and drug use, alcoholism, promiscuity, abortion, assisted suicide and homosexual "marriage" are not only common place but becoming the dominant cultural norm.

If Catholics are angry about Obama's policies they have no one to blame but themselves.

Provasek   January 30th, 2012 - 12:19 pm

I am Catholic myself, and not one Catholic is forced to use birth control pills just because they are a covered item under an insurance plan. The insurance plan is part of the salary/benefits package, and one could just as easily argue that the Church should be able to keep its employees from using "the church's money" paid as their salary to buy things that are against church law.

M-I-DOUBLE TIZZLE   January 30th, 2012 - 7:25 pm

How can you kill something if it doesn't even exist?

Are we counting sperm as babies now?
If that's the case, I've doomed generations of civilizations sending them to a fiery genocide down the throats of more than a few special women.

whatitwas   February 2nd, 2012 - 10:46 am

It's so tough for the left to get away from their eugenics roots…

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