Reid blocks effort to repeal birth control rule: "sorry Catholic freedom of religion does not apply to you"

Roy 'the Bluntinator' Blunt: “I will be back,” Blunt said


Reid blocks effort to repeal birth control rule, tells opponents to "calm down"
by Audrey Hudson

“(Democrats) won’t allow those of us who were sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution to even offer an amendment that says we believe in our First Amendment right to religious freedom. I never thought I’d see the day,” McConnell responded.

Senate Republicans on Thursday were blocked from offering legislation to repeal the Obama administration’s rule requiring religious organizations to provide free birth control through insurance coverage.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called the lawmakers’ efforts “senseless” and said they needed to “calm down” and wait until the controversial regulation is finalized before trying to stop it.

Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) tried to add an amendment that has bipartisan support to a transportation bill being debated on the floor, but Reid blocked the maneuver because he said the language was not germane to the legislation.

“I appreciate that the Republicans take every opportunity… to mess up a good piece of legislation,” Reid said.

“The rule hasn't even been finalized yet. Let's at least wait until there is a final rule. Everybody should calm down, let see what transpires,” Reid said.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Reid said.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed that he had never seen anything like this before, but for a different reason.

“(Democrats) won’t allow those of us who were sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution to even offer an amendment that says we believe in our First Amendment right to religious freedom. I never thought I’d see the day,” McConnell responded.

“I’ve spent a lot of time in my life defending the First Amendment. But I never thought I’d see the day when the elected representatives of the people of this country would be blocked by a majority party in Congress to even express their support for it.”

Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington earlier in the day, McConnell vowed to “fight this attack on the fundamental right to religious freedom until the courts overturn it or we’ve got a president who will reverse it.”

The floor skirmish came as two key Democratic Senators publicly broke with the president to publicly oppose the rule, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida.

The White House said they would give religious institutions a year to comply with the rule, which Blunt said makes their actions “even more offensive.”

“The idea that you could change your religious beliefs in a year, or a lifetime, because some federal regulator says you need to, is unbelievably offensive in our country based on the principles that we hold most dear in the Constitution itself,” Blunt said.

Blunt said he was disappointed the Democratic leader blocked his amendment, but said this won’t be last time Republicans will try and move legislation on the floor to reverse the decision.

“I will be back,” Blunt said
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Barack Hussein Obama II: Look at them, bloody Catholics, filling the bloody world up with bloody people they can't afford to bloody feed.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: What are we dear? 

Barack Hussein Obama II: Protestant, and fiercely proud of it.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Hmm. Well, why do they have so many children?

Barack Hussein Obama II: Because... every time they have sexual intercourse, they have to have a baby.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: But it's the same with us, Barack . 

Barack Hussein Obama II: What do you mean?

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Well, I mean, we've got two children, and we've had sexual intercourse twice. 

Barack Hussein Obama II: That's not the point. We could have it any time we wanted. 

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Really?

Barack Hussein Obama II: Oh, yes, and, what's more, because we don't believe in all that Papist claptrap, we can take precautions.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: What, you mean... lock the door?

Barack Hussein Obama II: No, no. I mean, because we are members of the Protestant Reformed Church, which successfully challenged the autocratic power of the Papacy in the mid-sixteenth century, we can wear little rubber devices to prevent issue

. 

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: What d'you mean?

Barack Hussein Obama II: I could, if I wanted, have sexual intercourse with you... 

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Oh, yes, Barack .

Barack Hussein Obama II: ...and, by wearing a rubber sheath over my old feller, I could insure... that, when I came off, you would not be impregnated. 

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Ooh.

Barack Hussein Obama II: That's what being a Protestant's all about. That's why it's the church for me. That's why it's the church for anyone who respects the individual and the individual's right to decide for him or herself. When Martin Luther nailed his protest up to the church door in fifteen-seventeen, he may not have realised the full significance of what he was doing, but four hundred years later, thanks to him, my dear, I can wear whatever I want on my John Thomas... 

[sniff] 

Barack Hussein Obama II: ... and, Protestantism doesn't stop at the simple condom. Oh, no. I can wear French Ticklers if I want. 

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: You what? 

Barack Hussein Obama II: French Ticklers. Black Mambos. Crocodile Ribs. Sheaths that are designed not only to protect, but also to enhance the stimulation of sexual congress. 

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Have you got one? 

Barack Hussein Obama II: Have I got one? Uh, well, no, but I can go down the road any time I want and walk into Barack 's and hold my head up high and say in a loud, steady voice, 'Barack , I want you to sell me a condom. In fact, today, I think I'll have a French Tickler, for I am a Protestant.' 

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama: Well, why don't you?

Barack Hussein Obama II: But they - Well, they cannot, 'cause their church never made the great leap out of the Middle Ages and the domination of alien Episcopal supremacy

Catholics vs. health care law

Catholics vs. health care law **

Holy war over health care law? Obama angers Catholic leaders

By Ed Henry

Published January 31, 2012 | FoxNews.com

While President Obama will deliver another speech on the economy Wednesday in Northern Virginia to keep the focus on jobs, Catholic leaders across the country are warning another issue may blow up in his face come November.

Catholics are fired up over new rules implementing Obama's health care reform law forcing Catholic universities, hospitals, and charities to provide insurance for their employees covering contraception -- even though that violates church teachings.

"When you push people of faith and you tell them the government is going to knock down the wall of separation of church and state and overreach like the Obama administration, you've got a war on your hands," Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, told Fox News.

In an extraordinary move this past weekend, New York Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan and other archbishops throughout the nation had their priests read letters denouncing the Obama administration policy from the pulpit at Sunday Mass.

"Never before has the government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience," Dolan said in a web video that takes the battle online. "This shouldn't happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights. How about letting our elected leaders know that we want religious liberty and rights of consciences restored and the administration's mandate rescinded? We can't afford to strike out on this one."

Pressed on the matter at his daily briefing Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney repeated several times the administration believes it struck an "appropriate balance" in crafting the policy.

"The administration believes that this proposal strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious beliefs and increasing access to important preventive services," said Carney. "We will continue to work closely with religious groups during this transitional period to discuss their concerns."

Even some Catholic Democrats are not buying that claim, however, with liberal columnist E.J. Dionne ripping the policy in a Washington Post column. Dionne charged Monday that the president "utterly botched" the issue and "threw his progressive Catholic allies under the bus."