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CATHOLIC CHURCH GRABS RIGHTS FROM GAYS & WOMEN IN SAME WEEK
Just a few days after the vote on gay marriage in Maine in which Catholic Church played a huge negative role
Unsilent Generation - We now know that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which in the end run reports to Rome, was intimately involved in the crafting and promotion of the Stupak Amendment, which turned a tepid health care victory for the Democrats into a serious loss for women’s reproductive rights. Jessica Arons, director of the Women 's Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, writes that the measure “potentially goes farther than any other federal law to restrict women 's access to abortion” by effectively guaranteeing that virtually all insurance plans will refuse to pay for the procedure in the future.
Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, despairs of what he calls the American bishops’ “obsession” with sex and sexual politics. In an interview today, he said these bishops are supposed to be dedicated to the sick, poor, and vulnerable, all of whom desperately need decent health care. Yet they have shown themselves willing “to burn health care reform” over the abortion issue - a position that places them out of line with the majority of lay Catholics. . .
Catholic voters believe the US Catholic bishops are wrong on healthcare reform. Sixty-eight percent disapprove of US bishops saying that all Catholics should oppose the entire healthcare reform plan if it includes coverage for abortion and 56 percent think the bishops should not take a position on healthcare reform legislation in Congress. . .
What this means is that American public policy on health care and reproductive rights is being shaped not by a majority of voters or even a majority of Catholic voters, but by a bunch of celibate men in robes, and a reactionary 82-year-old German in the Vatican.
Unsilent Generation - We now know that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which in the end run reports to Rome, was intimately involved in the crafting and promotion of the Stupak Amendment, which turned a tepid health care victory for the Democrats into a serious loss for women’s reproductive rights. Jessica Arons, director of the Women 's Health and Rights Program at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, writes that the measure “potentially goes farther than any other federal law to restrict women 's access to abortion” by effectively guaranteeing that virtually all insurance plans will refuse to pay for the procedure in the future.
Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, despairs of what he calls the American bishops’ “obsession” with sex and sexual politics. In an interview today, he said these bishops are supposed to be dedicated to the sick, poor, and vulnerable, all of whom desperately need decent health care. Yet they have shown themselves willing “to burn health care reform” over the abortion issue - a position that places them out of line with the majority of lay Catholics. . .
Catholic voters believe the US Catholic bishops are wrong on healthcare reform. Sixty-eight percent disapprove of US bishops saying that all Catholics should oppose the entire healthcare reform plan if it includes coverage for abortion and 56 percent think the bishops should not take a position on healthcare reform legislation in Congress. . .
What this means is that American public policy on health care and reproductive rights is being shaped not by a majority of voters or even a majority of Catholic voters, but by a bunch of celibate men in robes, and a reactionary 82-year-old German in the Vatican.
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Archbishop Carlson funds homophobia in Maine and beyond... http://catholicssuck.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/archdiocese-donated-to-defeat-maine-gay-marriage/
www.CatholicsSuck.com to see Archbishop Carlson in action
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