Bishops’ Crusade Is About Power, Not Religious Freedom

[SecularMotion]

What exactly is the Catholic hierarchy up to? Are the bishops genuinely concerned about religious freedom or are they engaging in a partisan power play?

Today is the first day of the so-called “Fortnight for Freedom,” a prelate project supposedly intended to rally parishioners against an alleged Obama administration assault on religious freedom.

According to a USA Today report, “Nearly half of the nation's 195 dioceses have announced events from prayer breakfasts to town-hall-style meetings to readings of the Constitution. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is providing resources including a dramatic special prayer for strength and courage.”

The two-week campaign is heavily focused on a provision in the health-care reform that requires all employers (except churches) to include birth control as part of their employees’ insurance coverage.

http://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/fatuous-fortnight-bishops-crusade-is-about-power-not-religious-freedom

[MichiganVote]

1. Trying to crawl out of their immoral cravasse by taking moral high ground.

'Sides, when in trouble, Bishops scapegoat females. Tis' an old tale in the RCC.

[HockeyMom]

2. Their parishoners have been ignorning the church on BC

for decades. They are using this as their bully pulpit to stop ALL women from using contraceptives which they consider as immoral.

[cbayer]

3. No question in my mind that it is a partisan power play and nothing else.

[dimbear]

4. We don't know what the hierarchy is up to. More important, they don't either. n/t