Cardinal Dolan: Obama’s Actions Are “Radical, Unprecedented, and Dramatically Intrusive”
Posted by Andrea Ryan on Sunday, April 1, 2012, 6:27 PM
By: Andrea Ryan
There’s nothing like lying to a Cardinal to get you in good with the faith community.
The other day Peggy Noonan, the disappointing traitor to her Conservative mentor, published an article in the Wall Street Journal declaring that Obama’s mask of deceit, dishonesty, and treachery was no longer fooling the American people.
Today, James Taranto, has another article exposing the president’s proclivity for being “imperious and deceitful”. After a meeting last November, Obama promised then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan to “respect the Catholic Church’s rights of conscience”. Two months later, Obama publicly humiliated the same church for which he claimed immense regard with his unconstitutional birth control mandate.
In Taranto’s interview, Cardinal Dolan describes a president with “radical, unprecedented, and dramatically intrusive” behavior.
From the WSJ,
The president of the U.S. Conference of Bishops is careful to show due respect for the president of the United States. “I was deeply honored that he would call me and discuss these things with me,” says the newly elevated Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York. But when Archbishop Dolan tells me his account of their discussions of the ObamaCare birth-control mandate, Barack Obama sounds imperious and deceitful to me.
Mr. Obama knew that the mandate would pose difficulties for the Catholic Church, so he invited Archbishop Dolan to the Oval Office last November, shortly before the bishops’ General Assembly in Baltimore. At the end of their 45-minute discussion, the archbishop summed up what he understood as the president’s message:
“I said, ‘I’ve heard you say, first of all, that you have immense regard for the work of the Catholic Church in the United States in health care, education and charity. . . . I have heard you say that you are not going to let the administration do anything to impede that work and . . . that you take the protection of the rights of conscience with the utmost seriousness. . . . Does that accurately sum up our conversation?’ [Mr. Obama] said, ‘You bet it does.’”
The archbishop asked for permission to relay the message to the other bishops. “You don’t have my permission, you’ve got my request,” the president replied.
“So you can imagine the chagrin,” Archbishop Dolan continues, “when he called me at the end of January to say that the mandates remain in place and that there would be no substantive change, and that the only thing that he could offer me was that we would have until August. . . . I said, ‘Mr. President, I appreciate the call. Are you saying now that we have until August to introduce to you continual concerns that might trigger a substantive mitigation in these mandates?’ He said, ‘No, the mandates remain. We’re more or less giving you this time to find out how you’re going to be able to comply.’ I said, ‘Well, sir, we don’t need the [extra time]. I can tell you now we’re unable to comply.’”
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“We find it completely unswallowable, both as Catholics and mostly as Americans, that a bureau of the American government would take it upon itself to define ‘ministry,’” Archbishop Dolan says. “We would find that to be—we’ve used the words ‘radical,’ ‘unprecedented’ and ‘dramatically intrusive.’”
There’s a new trend here. Instead of “hope and change” we now have “creepiness and deceit.”
Hat tip: Duane
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joyo commented:
We have an Administration waging war against the First Amendment while falsely accusing the Republicans of waging a war against women. Saul Alinski and his fellow Progressives would be so proud!
Rock commented:
IMO, we have a president and inner circle waging war against the whole Constitution, the nation it protects, and people of that nation in behalf of malcontents, and freedom hating Commies. Anything suggesting less is nothing more than sticking your head in the sand.
Mac in NM commented:
It just doesn’t matter what a Cardinal or even the Pope says. Catholics, esp the Hispanics; will overwhelmingly vote for Obama in November. Sad.
el polacko commented:
while all government mandates on the insurance industry should be debated, i fail to see any particular onus being placed on catholics. the mandated coverage that catholics are obliged to offer to the employees of their secular business ventures is the same mandated coverage that is offerred by any other employer. the mere fact that coverage for some procedures against which the vatican preaches exists does not mean that any catholic is obliged to avail themselves of that coverage. my insurance covers procedures such as breast exams and pap smears that i, as a male, will not take advantage of but that is not a reason for me reject being insured. the catholics are still free to minister and their employees, both catholic and non-catholic, may accept or reject that as they see fit. no catholic is being coerced into doing anything against their church’s teaching and all employers and employees are being treated equally under the law. what’s the problem ?
arnonerik commented:
It appears that there is no room in Obama’s fundamentaly changed America for people of faith or their consciences.
Rock commented:
The only faith the one recognizes is the one that has the great unwashed bowing at his feet. Thus there is no room for other faiths. Competition is bad why else his constant complaints of having to work with Congress and within the restraints of the Constitution.
Cutlers Bad Thumb commented:
AMEN !!!!
arnonerik commented:
“What’s the problem ?” ? Mr Pollacko, surely you are not that dense. Premiums would be paid by the church funding what they consider to be gross sin. Obama goes where no President has gone before in direct violation of thr U.S. Constitution. In his next step he could mandate mercy killing for all level 4 cancer patients to help out in a drug shortage.
Kate commented:
I have to wonder if he would mandate Islam to do something they are intrinsically opposed to?
democraps suck commented:
This POS has waged war against every thing that is AMERICAN….he is nothing but the anti-christ..total mooslime commie m’fer…he hates whites he hates capilalisim he hates everything this country stands for…time to send his little black a$$ packing in November
tommy mc donnell commented:
everything the myth has done has had the support of the ENTIRE democratic party. where are all those elected catholic democrats, there hasn’t been a word out of any of them on this issue. everyone of them sided with their party over their church or constitutents.
StrangernFiction commented:
He’s just in over his head.
Georga commented:
Muslims must eat pork.
Georga commented:
What does freedom mean? It does not mean to be forced by penalty of law to change what I believe to be true and accept a lie so to comply.
rosie commented:
el polacko commented:….”what’s the problem”
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I’ll put it as simply as possible in order for you to “get it”, okay?
The Catholic Church is now compelled under Obama’s regime to stand behind insurance that covers killing human life. Got it? And that’s only a portion of what will be mandated within its institutions and services.
jc commented:
Didn’t Obama exempt Muslims from Obamacare? Thought I read that somewhere awhile ago.
Monkey Wrench commented:
#17
That’s just a ridiculous statement. Very few people believe that contraception is the “taking of human life”. Most Catholic women use contraception at some point in their life. There’s a reason you don’t find a lot of Catholic families with 8 children any more.
Besides there are a lot of Catholic organizations that support the new version of the law. Plus a lot of Catholic hospitals and universities already cover contraception in their health coverage. Do you think they are condoning the taking of human life? No.
GGMac commented:
#10 April 1, 2012 at 7:26 pm
Kate commented:
I have to wonder if he would mandate Islam to do something they are intrinsically opposed to?
Well, for starters – Muslims are exempt from Obamacare. As are the Amish – and scientologists.
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