Pelosi on contraception insurance mandate: I am going to stick with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this
posted at 7:00 pm on February 3, 2012
by Tina Korbe
When the administration announced earlier this month that it would stick to its decision to require religiously-affiliated employers to provide their employees with insurance that covers contraception, the national Catholic reaction was, to put it mildly, less than supportive. All across the country, Catholic bishops wrote and read letters to their flocks that read, âWe cannot â we will not â comply with this unjust law.â
Today, a CNSNews.com reporter asked Nancy Pelosi whether she would stand with her fellow Catholics and oppose the law or whether she would stand with the administration and support it. The former Speaker of the House responded with this doozy:
Yes, Ms. Pelosi, the administration was so courageous to use this decision to curry favor with voters Obama needs. In fact, isnât that the definition of courage? To make safe your own hide before you worry about anybody elseâs? That sort of example always stirred my heroic impulses, I assure you.
Please, people, pay attention to congressional elections. If you think Pelosi is unbearable now, just imagine her as Speaker of the House again.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/...ics-in-supporting-the-administration-on-this/
posted at 7:00 pm on February 3, 2012
by Tina Korbe
When the administration announced earlier this month that it would stick to its decision to require religiously-affiliated employers to provide their employees with insurance that covers contraception, the national Catholic reaction was, to put it mildly, less than supportive. All across the country, Catholic bishops wrote and read letters to their flocks that read, âWe cannot â we will not â comply with this unjust law.â
Today, a CNSNews.com reporter asked Nancy Pelosi whether she would stand with her fellow Catholics and oppose the law or whether she would stand with the administration and support it. The former Speaker of the House responded with this doozy:
Ack. She must have misunderstood the question. The point of the question was that she canât have it both ways. This exercise is getting old. When will Pelosi just admit that she doesnât think the pope and bishops have any more moral authority than she does â and that, on matters of âwomenâs health,â they have even less? Oh, wait. She has. She has said that she thinks her personal experience of motherhood qualifies her to be her own authority on the abortion issue and she has long lamented the collective Catholic conscience on contraception. Of what, exactly, does her Catholicism consist? At least Joe Biden reportedly fought against the administrationâs decision in private negotiations.
Yes, Ms. Pelosi, the administration was so courageous to use this decision to curry favor with voters Obama needs. In fact, isnât that the definition of courage? To make safe your own hide before you worry about anybody elseâs? That sort of example always stirred my heroic impulses, I assure you.
Please, people, pay attention to congressional elections. If you think Pelosi is unbearable now, just imagine her as Speaker of the House again.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/...ics-in-supporting-the-administration-on-this/
