Mitt Romney Attacks Obama Administration for Assault on Religious Freedom …Update: Romneycare Does the Same Thing
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 8:01 AM
Former Governor Mitt Romney finally joined in and denounced President Obama’s assault on religious freedom today during a stop in Colorado.
National Journal reported:
At a high school in Centennial, a Denver suburb, Romney took aim at recent regulations requiring women’s contraceptive services to be covered by insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act. The Catholic Church had sought a broad exemption for the many Catholic institutions in the country to recognize its canonical opposition to artificial birth control. Instead, the Department of Health and Human Services excluded only “religious employers” that primarily employ members of their own faith communities.
The exception protects those who work directly for Catholic churches, but not Catholic universities, hospitals or social-service agencies. Catholic bishops are pushing back on the issue, contending with some telling their parishes to “defend the faith” while others say they won’t comply with it.
Although the White House has sought to point out that the policy does not require individuals to use or prescribe contraception, Romney charged it was an example of President Obama’s war on religious liberty.
“Think what that does to people in faiths that do not share those views; this is a violation of conscience,” he said. “We must have a president who is willing to protect America’s first right, our right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.”
He added, “The Creator gave every human being his rights. I’m just distressed as I watch our president try and infringe upon our rights. The First Amendment of the Constitution provides the right to worship in the way of our own choice.”
UPDATE: Mitt Romney wrote an editorial three days ago pledging to end the HHS mandate his first day as president.
UPDATE: The White House says the same mandate was included in Romneycare. And Newt Gingrich pointed this out on Sunday.
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gary gulrud commented:
Yeah, Willard and Ricky are all over assaults on religious freedoms.
Theft of our grandchildren’s livelihoods, not so much. There are folks on fixed incomes to keep in our thoughts.
mg4us commented:
Well said Romney. . .
Obama is a statist and radical. . he is all about power and control not liberty & freedom
I wonder what Obama and the White House would do for Muslims. . . oh wait, aren’t Muslim’s exempt from Obamacare so they can abide by their Sharia law?
Be afraid people. . . be very afraid of Obama.
I used to think he was Inexperienced, Inept and Incompetent. .now I think he is radical and has a plan to radically change America. . . and it won’t be for the better.
Obama has already downgraded our credit rating, amassed massive debt, destroyed jobs, cut back energy sources, devalued the dollar, increased racial tensions, discouraged our allies, emboldened our enemies and weakened our military. .ALL in three years. . .ALL according to his plan.
Be afraid. . be very afraid
PJay commented:
When Romney was governor he would not let Catholic Charities get a waiver to avoid placing infants with gay couples. (One of the residual effects of the gay marriage ruling which Romney helped usher in.) So Catholic Charities adoption program, the most successful in the state, ceased to exist. No “conscience clause exception” for them, to the detriment of children desparately needing good homes. Is this man the best we can do to beat Obama?
MER commented:
Good thing John Orange Foolius Bohner cant be blamed for anything. You know, the House is completely disfunctional, the House routinely gets its panties ina wad about this or that legislation, then, in a stunning reversal, votes against its own legislation. Fooolius has led the DC crowd to the brink of total anarchy. Obama is not to blame.
People her are so obviously stupid and willfully ignorant. America hate you and what you stand for.
Fu#kObama commented:
The pot calling the kettle black…..
Peggy R commented:
I understand Romneycare funded abortions and the like. Yes, he wasn’t all that strong on opposing gay adoptions in MASS.
But, “finally” is unfair in this case. He had an editorial out last week. He also spoke about this at his post-Nevada speech.
Neo commented:
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donh commented:
Mitt RMONEY has no credibility on this issue given his record in mass. He is also way late …over a week ….to begin speaking out. Newt was on this in real time as it was going down….Newt has been a tenacious opportunist fighter jumping on every issue… every RMONEY mistatement as it happens. He is not the typical coward republican following behind the curve playing it safe.
dunce commented:
While governor he did nothing about the schools teaching children that homosexual activity was a good thing and church teachings against the behavior were hate speech. He reminds me of Carter and his born again acquired faith. Santorum does not change his religious convictions when they are politically inconvenient. Too many politicians have a come to Jesus moment just before they decide to seek some office, we are asked to believe the timing was accidental.
Vercingetorix commented:
Gingrich was all over this issue from the day it happened.
The difference is, to Gingrich it is an outrage, to Romney it’s another talking point that polls well.
Liz commented:
This is so dishonest. If you’re going to tell the story, tell the whole story. Buh-bye.
Calvin Freiburger commented:
It’s unfair to suggest Romney opposed conscience rights for hospitals or didn’t at least try to protect them: http://liveaction.org/blog/newt-gingrich-tries-to-paint-mitt-romney-as-an-enemy-of-catholic-hospitals/
bg commented:
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PJay #3 February 7, 2012 at 8:21 am
ht Molon Labe
2004: Mitt Romney Supported Radical Gay Group
[However, a year earlier, Romney’s own Department of Public Health assisted AAC with the publication of the booklet. Moreover, the AAC has always used graphic material in its publications, even during the time period it received $10,000 from Romney. It’s what AAC is known for. It is hard to believe Romney didn’t know this. Romney apologists will argue that AAC also worked to prevent AIDS, but it hard to see how a group that promotes such risky behaviors can do any good preventing AIDS.]
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Mandy commented:
Romney has no creditility on this issue. RomneyCare was the model for Obamacare. I don’t trust anything he will say on this or other issues.
More Liberty commented:
hahahahaha….way to go neocons. Rombama is NO DIFFERENT that Obama. Like many other people, if Mitt’s the choice I will stay home.
Shibumi commented:
#14 Mandy
Agree 100% That is why I mistrust Romney.
bg commented:
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sad, i used to see Romney in a different light, also stuck up for him quite
a lot in here for quite a while, however, thanks to the hypocrite “i never
signed a pork bill that i didn’t stuff” RP, i am seeing him for what he is
much clearer now.. he’s an “i knew the gun was loaded, but i didn’t pull
the trigger” kind of politician.. iow: i could afford to say no when my loss
was all but assured.. /s/
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bg commented:
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re: #17 February 7, 2012 at 9:50 am bg
correction:
‘i wouldn’t vote yes on a Pork bill, but i will
Pork the bill knowing damn well others will’
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The Elector of Saxony commented:
“Is this man the best we can do to beat Obama?”
He has a less than zero chance to beat Obama. The only thing that could beat Obama would be a nominee who can brutalize Obama in the debates, will take the fight to him, and can articulate with clarity where the country is headed on its present course, and can lay out in clear terms a vision for how it could be if we reverse course and do some other things. Newt’s ideas about health care are revolutionary. From what I’ve read on his website, he’s proposing ideas that not one politician has ever proposed on a national scale. Those are conservative solutions. Slashing inefficiency, promoting personal responsibility, reaping the benefits of technology to drive costs down and quality up, using market forces to regulate instead of government bureaucrats, using sliding scales to assist consumers who can’t get access to the care they need. Thus far the Republican articulation on health care is either “Nothing.” or “Tort Reform.” (which we got in Texas and it hasn’t driven medical malpractice premiums or health care costs down by one dollar)
Is it impossible for us to nominate someone who can drive people to the polls based on ideas? Can we never nominate someone who can make the case that Liberty is a transformational state of being, and that whatever the problem, if the solution is the market and Liberty we will get lasting betterment, whereas government based coercive solutions become nightmarish morasses that are more expensive and less efficacious in solving the original problem? Or do we have to go with the guy who is slick or who has denounced “trickle down” economics and supports gay marriage and abortions, and socialized medicine so the media will like our guy, but still shill for the guy on the Left?
Those of you who think Romney can get those independents, I want you to remember this and remember me the first time you see it on TV. Black men were denied the priesthood in the Mormon Church until 1 9 7 9. Romney was in his 30′s, a Harvard-trained lawyer by that time and I’ll bet he is not on record opposing this practice. He wasn’t a child or anything. Mark well my words: The MEDIA WILL FLAY HIM ALIVE WITH THIS. This will figure in so many PAC ads that you will rue the day you wanted him as our nominee. Newt might have been horny and he might have wanted to earn a living. You can apologize for that. Does the media allow people to recover from “Racism”? Not once.
DavidC commented:
I wish the endless references to RomneyCare would show some level of intellectually defensible logic.
bg commented:
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via GP post link..
January 30, 2012
Can Obama’s health-care law force Catholics to support birth control?
[The issue has long been politically sensitive. Republican presidential
candidate Newt Gingrich seized it to lash out at Mr. Obama and at
rival Republican Mitt Romney.
"The Obama administration has just launched an attack on Christianity
so severe that every single church in Florida had a letter read from the
bishops yesterday," he said in a CBS appearance Monday. "Romneycare
[in Massachusetts] does the same thing.”]
February 4, 2012
Newt Gingrich, Nevada Press Conference. video
February 4, 2012
Newt Gingrich, Nevada Press Conference, transcript
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Nancy Pelosi came out and said that
she stands with her fellow Catholics in favor of President Obama’s
decision on the (INAUDIBLE).
GINGRICH: She stands with her fellow Catholics.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: That’s what she said. I was talking about the –
GINGRICH: Her fellow Catholics meaning Archbishop Dolan, the entire
hierarchy, every bishop, every priest? Those are her fellow Catholics?
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: That’s who she says.
GINGRICH: I just — well, you might go and ask the Archbishop Dolan
how and whether or not he thinks the term “fellow Catholic” applies
to Archbishop Dolan.
Yes, sir?
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you consider –
GINGRICH: Let me go back for a second to say to you, the Obama
administration has declared war on religious freedom in this country.
And people need to understand that. This is a decision so totally
outrageous, and then the illustration of such radical secular ideology,
that I believe the entire hierarchy will oppose it every inch of the way.
It has nothing to do with specific details. It has to do with whether
or not the government of the United States can tell a religious institution
you must give up your religious beliefs.
Now that’s what Obamacare has come to mean. The right of a Washington
politician and a Washington bureaucrat to tell you that you may no longer
worship God the way you want unless you’re willing to pay a penalty for
doing so. And I think as the average American comes to understand that,
they will be repulsed at the arrogance and the anti- religious bigotry of the
Obama administration.]
one thing for certain, Gingrich is not afraid to bring religion into the fray,
neither he, Cain, nor West will settle for being silenced re: speaking out
against Islamic intolerance or Christian persecution, etc.
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bg commented:
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re: #22 February 7, 2012 at 10:15 am bg
posted March 10, 2011
Gingrich
January 31, 2012
video
transcript:
[Give you just two more examples. I will sign on that day an
executive order reinstating Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City policy.
No U.S. money will go anywhere in the world to pay for abortion,
period.
And finally, many of you may have noticed that the Obama
administration has declared war on the Catholic Church and
other religious institutions. I want you to know that, on the
very first day, I will sign an executive order repealing every
anti-religious act of the Obama administration as of that
moment.]
bg commented:
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re: #22 February 7, 2012 at 10:15 am bg
February 4, 2012
“Average American Would Be Repulsed By Arrogance
& Anti-Religion Bigotry of Obama Administration”
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burt commented:
Wait till Obama starts attacking Romney Care.
StrangernFiction commented:
This Romney is one deceitful SOB.
avagreeb commented:
Lies and the liars that tell them. Romney is our only hope!
bg commented:
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avagreeb #28 February 7, 2012 at 11:17 am
that you Franken??
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dress designs commented:
Former Governor Mitt Romney finally joined in and denounced President Obama’s assault on religious freedom today during a stop in Colorado. National Journal reported: At a high school in Centennial, a Denver suburb, Romney took aim at recent regulations requiring women’s contraceptive services to be covered by insurance policies under the Affordable Care Act. The Catholic Church had sought a broad exemption for the many Catholic institutions in the country to recognize its canonical opposition to artificial birth control. Instead, the Department of Health and Human Services excluded only “religious employers” that primarily employ members of their own faith communities. The exception protects those who work directly for Catholic churches, but not Catholic universities, hospitals or social-service agencies. Catholic bishops are pushing back on the issue, contending with some telling their parishes to “defend the faith” while others say they won’t comply with it. Although the White House has sought to point out that the policy does not require individuals to use or prescribe contraception, Romney charged it was an example of President Obama’s war on religious liberty. “Think what that does to people in faiths that do not share those views; this is a violation of conscience,” he said. “We must have a president who is willing to protect America’s first right, our right to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.” He added, “The Creator gave every human being his rights. I’m just distressed as I watch our president try and infringe upon our rights. The First Amendment of the Constitution provides the right to worship in the way of our own choice.” UPDATE: Mitt Romney wrote an editorial three days ago pledging to end the HHS mandate his first day as president. UPDATE: The White House says the same mandate was included in Romneycare. And Newt Gingrich pointed this out on Sunday
Peggy R commented:
Romney’s editorial was Feb 3, 4 days ago. Newt talked about it post-NV Feb 4, as did Romney before him that same night.
Obama's Magic Elixir commented:
It is good to know that Romney is a truly progressive thinker who would also follow the path of the Maximum Leader in defending the rights of women against the forces of counter revolution. For a better People’s Republic, a better socialist future, we must embrace Obamacare and Romneycare in dismantling those institutions that seek to maintain artifical barriers such as marriage, religion, individual liberty and rights, that will prevent the establishment of a progressive society such as we have achieved in Havana or Vietnam.
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If we leave Obama alone he will defeat himself. He is as nutty as anybody on the extreme right.