Sen. Ayotte Blasts Administration Attack on Religious Liberty

http://nhjournal.com/2012/02/08/ayotte-finds-national-voice-defending-religious-freedom/

Ayotte Finds National Voice Defending Religious Freedom

By Patrick Hynes

New Hampshire’s junior Senator Kelly Ayotte is regarded by most politics observers as a rising start within the GOP. She has staked out an important role in defending our nation’s military readiness against reckless budget cuts. She has been a powerful surrogate for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. But it is in her defense of religious freedom against attacks by the Obama administration that Ayotte appears to be finding her national voice.

On Wednesday, Ayotte took to the floor of the Senate to condemn a recent Health and Human Services rule that forces Catholic hospitals, colleges and charitable organizations to offer health insurance coverage that includes abortion-inducing drugs and contraception, a direct assault on the right of Roman Catholics to practice their faith as they see fit.

“I share the concerns of my constituents in New Hampshire and citizens across this nation, who see the recent rule issued by the administration for what it is — an unprecedented, unnecessary affront to religious liberty in our country,” said Senator Ayotte. “This issue isn’t limited to the Catholic Church. The administration’s new health care mandates on religious institutions impact all religions.”

She continued, “This mandate places religious institutions in this impossible position of violating their core beliefs in order to comply with the mandate or dropping employee insurance coverage altogether. We should not be putting these organizations that do great work throughout this country in this position.”

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd pointed out that Ayotte is the first woman Senator to speak out against the administrations attack on the Constitutional right to conscience from the floor of that august body.

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Comments

[C. dog]

You go, girl.
– C. dog

[Troll]

By all means, we should run the country based on the tenets of 2000 year old fairy tale that a minority of people in the world believe. That certainly makes sense. Also, we should all be forced to adhere to a RELIGIOUS doctrine that most Catholics don't even follow. When 90% of Catholics use birth control at some point in their lives, it certainly comes across as hypocitical to expect the rest of the country to abstain from it. Tell you what, when you can get to even just 50% non-contraceptive usage by the people who espouse this baloney, then come talk to me. Otherwise, you have no leg to stand on.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/Religion-and-Contraceptive-Use.pdf

[C. dog]

Troll The Inane!
Thanks for underscoring what passes for Lib Logic to the uninitiated. Let's quickly dispatch your latest inanities, shall we?
1. Explain how the country (I assume you mean USA government) adheres to tenets insinuated?
2. While you're at it, you might want to identify, specifically, which tenets because there's a whole mess o' peeps that subscribe to some overlapping rules to live by.
3. And just how is any one being forced to obey Catholic doctrine? Even the Catholics aren't forced. Please, elucidate for us your tortured tricks and turns of terminology.
4. Who, exactly, is expecting the rest of the country fried chicken to abstain from birth avoidance measures?
5. When you pee, do you stand on one leg, or none?
– C. dog assumes 3-point stance when watering lib logic with his finest