What’s Next for America if the President Gives in to the GOP Holding the Country Hostage? Catholic Bishops To House: Shut Down The Government Unless We Get Our Way On Birth Control. In an effort to force President Obama to enact many of their preferred policies, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops wrote House members requesting that the government be shut down — and potentially that the nation be forced into default — unless religious employers were given a special right to deny birth control coverage to their employees. According to the Treasury Department, a default could lead to “a recession more severe than any seen since the Great Depression” — potentially plunging millions into poverty along the way. Thanks to the last recession that we are still recovering from, 3 million more people lived in poverty in 2012 than in 2009. And yet, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops were willing to risk all of this in order to make it harder for many women to obtain birth control. They read Jesus’ plea that “whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me,” and they decided instead to take the “least of these brothers and sister” hostage over contraception.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:16:48 +0000