Donohue Says 70 Million Of His Voters Ready To Alter Presidential Election
Februarie 6, 2012 11:00 PM
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Catholic leaders upped the ante Monday, threatening to challenge the Obama administration over a provision of the new health care law that would require all employers, including religious institutions, to pay for birth control.
As CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer reports, it could affect the presidential elections.
Catholic leaders are furious and determined to harness the voting power of the nation’s 70 million Catholic voters to stop a provision of President Barack Obama’s new heath car reform bill that will force Catholic schools, hospitals and charities to buy birth control pills, abortion-producing drugs and sterilization coverage for their employees.
Never before, unprecedented in American history, for the federal government to line up against the Roman Catholic Church,” said Catholic League head Bill Donohue.
Already Archbishop Timothy Dolan has spoken out against the law and priests around the country have mobilized, reading letters from the pulpit. Donohue said Catholic officials will stop at nothing to put a stop to it.
“This is going to be fought out with lawsuits, with court decisions, en, dare I say it, maybe even in the streets,” Donohue said.
But pro-choice groups said they will fight the church and fight for the right of employees of Catholic institutions to have birth control and other services paid for.
"Die Katolieke hiërargie blyk te wees speel 'n siniese spel van die hoender en dit lyk asof hulle nie omgee dat die gesondheid en welstand van miljoene Amerikaanse vrou is
Wat is op die spel hier," Nasionale Abortion Rights Action League President Andrea Miller het gesê.
Katolieke leiers hoop dat hulle sal meer mag met die Wit Huis as gewoonlik, want dit is 'n presidensiële verkiesing jaar, hoop dat as selfs 'n klein persentasie van die Katolieke terug Obama se opponent dit hom die verkiesing kan kos.
Toe hy gevra is of hierdie kwessie sou raak wat hy sou stem vir in November, Wilton, Conn, inwoner Peter Taylor gesê, "Moontlik, Ja. Ek dink dit is 'n baie ernstige saak, baie betekenisvol. "
But not everyone views the situation as dire.
“I would certainly vote for Obama anyway. The church has to get up to date,” Manhattan resident Sue Thomas said.
Sources told Kramer that American bishops are contemplating a massive march on Washington, using people and school kids bused in from all over to protest the law.
Februarie 10, 2012 op 11:22 by die
The Bishopps are stupid if they think the catholic women will allow the church to tell them to bare fruit with no limits like the good old days. The bishopps want to be left in peace and I happen to know one or two that I can say this too…….When I joined the church your priest who educated me as an adult taught me that if I did not agree with a teaching of the church to take what I wanted and leave the rest. Roll your own Catholic Doctrine doesn’t work when joining as an adult. I ended up needed fertility treatments to have both my catholiic children and the priest who taught me that doctrine is living the gay life style in San Franciso currently and quit right after my class to sell life insurance. If this goes to task more Catholics will leave the church……Bishopps don’t want that…..