Standing Alone

During a press conference last week, Nancy Pelosi said the following regarding the ruling by the Department of Health and Human Services that Catholic and other religious institutions have to offer contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients in their health care plans:

“First of all, I am going to stick with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this. I think it was a very courageous decision that they made, and I support it.”

But here is Archbishop Timothy Dolan on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops:

Critics charge that this [new ruling] is an attack on the cornerstone First Amendment freedom that is the very foundation of our democracy. It is. Others assert that it threatens a violation of conscience for millions of Americans. It does. And still others insist it will force an unprecedented choice for many employers to either subsidize what they believe to be immoral, or withdraw health care coverage for their own families and those of their employees. It will.

But the new Health and Human Services ruling is wrong for another reason.

It is egregiously unfair, and as such, it cuts against the grain of what it means to be American.

And here is a link to a letter that was read in Catholic churches around the U.S. a week ago last Sunday.

So it looks like the "fellow" Catholics Pelosi is standing with are but figments of her imagination.