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Barack Obama backs down on demanding the Catholic church offer healthcare plans which offer contraception, or does he?

By mpinkeyes on | From americaswatchtower.com

The biggest news over the last week has been the Obama regime’s decree that religious institutions and charities which offer their employees healthcare coverage must change their coverage to plans which violate their religious beliefs that contraception and abortion are wrong if the plans they offer do not include free access to contraception and abortion. Needless to say, this drew a firestorm of criticism from the Catholic church, other Christian faiths, conservatives, and even some Democrats.

Liberals such as Barack Obama like to call attention to Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists where he mentions the separation of church and state when it comes to tearing down all public displays of faith, the mention of God at public events, and anything that can be construed as a mingling of politics and religion, yet Barack Obama did not feel as if it was a violation of church and state for the government to dictate to Christian organizations which healthcare plans they can and cannot offer to employees.

The backlash against this edict was quick and fierce and I think that Barack Obama–in his ethnocentric views–underestimated the fallout from this controversy and today he backtracked from this position by announcing that he reached an “accommodation” which he hoped would help to placate the controversy. But did he really back down in the face of this brewing controversy?

The answer is simple; he did not.

Barack Obama still holds the same position today as he did yesterday and the Catholic church and other Christian denominations will still be forced to offer plans which include free contraception and abortions because instead of forcing the organizations to change insurance plans, the Obama regime has decided that the churches can keep the same plans, but the difference is that these plans will now be forced to offer the offending services. This is supposed to alleviate the churches from their guilt by building a wall of separation between the church and their insurance plans.

This is nothing but an attempt to provide the religious organizations with a “clear conscience” clause in an attempt to separate them from the issues at hand much in the way Pontius Pilot washed his hands of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Pilot “absolved” himself of the crucifixion by saying it was what the people wanted but not really what he wanted, but the end result was the same.

And that is what is happening here; according to Barack Obama, the churches will now be able to wash their hands of this controversy by claiming they had nothing to do with this change in policy even though they will still be paying for contraception and abortions. The end result is the same; The Catholic church will still be paying for practices which they feel are immoral but Barack Obama has abolished them of their sins with this new “accommodation.”

But who the hell is Barack Obama to absolve anyone of their sins? Does Barack Obama feel he dictate the same position in different words and the churches and the people will simply fall in line because they are too stupid to realize nothing has changed but the wording?