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Obama Obeys the Feminists Again |
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Tuesday, 14 February 2012 11:27 |
 Proclaiming in a New York Times headline that "Obama Adjusts a Rule Covering Contraceptives," the pro-Obama media tried to dig the president out of the political hole he had jumped into. But calling Obama's revised rule an "adjustment" or an "accommodation" or another soft-sell word can't cover the fact that the revision is essentially the same as the original rule.
Barack Obama and his administration are the lackeys of the feminists. And furthermore, they must think the American people are too stupid to see through the deception he is trying to put over on us.
A big New York Times editorial cried out that Obama's action means "The Freedom to Choose Birth Control." Poppycock. Every American already has the right to choose birth control, but that shouldn't give them the right to have somebody else pay for it, and that's what ObamaCare demands.
The bottom line is that the ObamaCare insurance, which employers are mandated to provide and individuals are mandated to buy, will include birth control, the morning-after pill (an abortion drug) and sterilization. All this at zero cost to the individual and without any additional premium, co-pay, or out-of-pocket expense. And yes, this mandate does apply to religious hospitals, schools, colleges and charities, even though their religion teaches them that these acts are immoral and wrong.
Obama's original rule called for religiously affiliated institutions to pay for these controversial services, which even liberal commentators denounced as a gross interference with religious liberty. It was even denounced by Chris Matthews, E.J. Dionne and Democratic senators. The ever loquacious Joe Biden hid out in uncharacteristic silence.
The debate about this rule went on within the administration for several months. Obama eventually sided with the feminists (no surprise) against the warning of then Chief of Staff William Daley.
After the firestorm erupted, Obama may have thought he could get the Catholic bishops to go along with his accommodation (as a couple of liberal nuns did), but the bishops saw through his duplicity. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops pointed out that the "adjustment" still includes a "nationwide mandate of insurance coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients" and also that the many "self-insuring religious employers, and religious insurance companies, are not exempt from this mandate."
The accommodation orders insurance companies to pay the costs of these birth control/abortion services, but you can be sure insurance companies will price their products to make a profit.
It's obvious that insurance companies will distribute and conceal the costs so nobody appears to be paying for the controversial procedures.
Since the insurance companies will not be permitted to charge different fees for different employees, all their customers will be paying something for the controversial services. In plain words, all religiously affiliated institutions and their employees will be paying for birth control/abortion drugs, but not "explicitly," as the Wall Street Journal delicately explained.
Congressman Chris Smith, R-N.J., summed up this issue: "The White House Fact Sheet is riddled with doublespeak and contradiction. It states, for example, that religious employers 'will not' have to pay for abortion pills, sterilization and contraception, but their 'insurance companies' will. Who pays for the insurance policy? The religious employer."
The political donnybrook continues as many people are speaking out against Obama's rule, both the original and the revised version, because it is an outrageous interference with religious liberty. How dare Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tell religiously affiliated institutions that they must do something that violates their moral code?
This issue has aroused people of all religious denominations to speak out. They now realize we have a president who made himself part of the organized attack on religion anywhere in the public square, an attack we see so frequently in the courts and in the schools.
One of the shocking parts of this charade is the fact that the U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains sent an email to senior chaplains telling them that Archbishop Timothy Broglio's letter criticizing the Obama rule was not to be read from the pulpit. Has anti-religious bigotry become so extreme, even in the military, that a chaplain's sermon is expected to be banned or censored to conform to Obama's prejudices?
Lesson No. 1: This issue demonstrates that the Obama administration is participating full-strength in the ongoing campaign against religious liberty.
Lesson No. 2: This issue demonstrates that national health care involves so much more than health, and that all decisions, major and minor, will be controlled by federal bureaucrats, not by patients, not by doctors, not by taxpayers and not by any elected representatives, state or federal.
As Walter Cronkite used to say, "That's the way it is."
Phyllis Schlafly is a lawyer, conservative political analyst and author of 20 books. Her latest, written with co-author Suzanne Venker, is "The Flipside of Feminism" published by WorldNetDaily. She can be contacted by e-mail at
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:40 |
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The Open Doors 2012 World Watch List has a familiar look to it. North Korea tops the list for the 10th straight time as the country where Christians face the most severe persecution, while Islamic-majority countries represent nine of the top 10 and 38 of the 50 countries on the annual ranking. Afghanistan (2), Saudi Arabia (3), Somalia (4), Iran (5) and the Maldives (6) form a bloc where indigenous Christians have almost no freedom to openly worship. The rest of the top 10 is composed of Uzbekistan (7), Yemen (8) and Iraq (9) and Pakistan (10).
Source: Christian Newswire, 1/4/12 |
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U.S. Debt Increased $48.994 per second Since Obama Took Office |
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:39 |
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Back in August, The Blaze reported that President Obama’s economic policies managed to add more debt to America than George Bush did, and in less than half the time! Today we have a staggering measurement that shows just how large that problem has grown. When Obama took over for Bush in January of 2009, America was only $10.6 trillion in debt.
In less than three years, the nation’s debt has ballooned past the $15 trillion dollar threshold. To put it in perspective, as National Review notes, the national debt has grown by a stunning $48,994.12 per second that Obama has been in office. Critics might easily dismiss the numbers since they came from a conservative outlet like National Review. But guess where the numbers really came from? The non-partisan (and some would even say left-leaning) fact-check group, PolitiFact.com.
Source: VisiontoAmerica.org, 12/13/11 |
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Border Patrol Constructing Unmanned Border Crossing |
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:38 |
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Border Patrol Constructing Unmanned Border Crossing
In an attempt ‘to upgrade security’ along the U.S.-Mexico border, federal authorities are proposing an unmanned border crossing in a rugged, remote area of West Texas where illegal immigrants easily wade across the shallow Rio Grande on a regular basis. Electronic port of entry kiosks allowing anyone crossing into our country to scan their identity documents, if they want, and talk to a customs officer at least 100 miles away, could be open as soon as this spring in Big Bend National Park.
Proponents of this absurdity argue that it will allow the tiny Mexican town of Boquillas del Carmen access to U.S. commerce. If approved, the Border Patrol will have just eight agents living in the 800,000-acre national park in addition to the park’s 23 law enforcement officers. The project to grant easier cross-border access for a Mexican town with less than 100 individuals will cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $2.3 million. Now, how’s that for money well spent?
Source: Minuteman PAC, 12/13/11 |
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Religious Beliefs are “Standing in the Way” of Gay Rights |
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Wednesday, 18 January 2012 14:35 |
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Religious beliefs and cultural values do not justify the failure to uphold the human rights of homosexuals, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the United Nations in Geneva last month. “Now, raising this issue, I know, is sensitive for many people and that the obstacles standing in the way of protecting the human rights of LGBT people rest on deeply held personal, political, cultural, and religious beliefs,” Clinton said. Her speech at the Geneva headquarters of the United Nations and its Human Rights Council (HRC) was delivered ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10, the anniversary of the U.N.’s adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
With Syrian abuses having been at the forefront of the Human Rights Council’s attention in recent days and weeks, Clinton’s focus on “LGBT rights” was unexpected, even after President Obama’s signing earlier in the day of a memorandum which the White House called the “first-ever U.S. government strategy dedicated to combating human rights abuses against LGBT persons abroad.”
Source: VisiontoAmerica.org, 12/7/11 |
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