US Bishops speak out against contraception mandate

And the hits keep on coming for the Obama administration’s contraception mandate.

Currently, bishops from all of the dioceses in the United States have spoken out against the mandate.

Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan said on Monday

“We bishops are pastors, we’re not politicians, and you can’t compromise on principle. And the goal posts haven’t moved and I don’t think there’s a 50-yard line compromise here…We’re in the business of reconciliation, so it’s not that we hold fast, that we’re stubborn ideologues, no. But we don’t see much sign of any compromise. What [Obama] offered was next to nothing. There’s no change, for instance, in these terribly restrictive mandates and this grossly restrictive definition of what constitutes a religious entity, the principle wasn’t touched at all.”

And it’s not just at the diocesan level, plenty of priests are speaking out in their local parishes. Orthodox bishops have also joined the Catholic bishops, and the Sisters of Life also released a statement saying, “This mandate will gravely violate the individual and collective religious liberties of the Sisters of Life and millions of others by forcing us to pay for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and artificial contraception against our conscience.”

Since Catholics are considered a swing vote, it’s a wonder the Obama administration isn’t listening to them.

By /// February 17, 2012
About Stacey Disterhof

Stacey is the Associate Editor of Red Alert Politics - an online publication written by and for young conservatives. Red Alert Politics is a product of Clarity Media Group, the parent company of The Washington Examiner and The Weekly Standard.

She attended Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio where she studied Economics and Political Science and was an Ashbrook Scholar. Upon graduation she worked at the Leadership Institute, giving her her first taste of working in the conservative movement.

She became an Associate at Strategic Public Partners, a full-service government affairs and public relations firm and then attended Cleveland Marshall College of Law, where she realized she had no desire to be a lawyer.

While in law school she worked in non-profit fundraising and was a regular volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House of Cleveland. She's a self-admitted diet coke addict and loves the Cleveland Browns (no matter how terrible they are).

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