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President Obama's Anti-Catholic BigotryFrom the day President Obama's Department of Health & Human Services announced the finalization of rules requiring Catholic institutions to distribute contraceptives and abortifacients – January 20 – the controversy began to build. For the first week or so it was confined largely to Catholics themselves, but at the beginning of February it flashed over into the national media and rages now from coast to coast, a political fire storm. Much of the coverage, especially in the mainstream media, has been of the "Obama-didn't-know-what-he-was-starting" variety. It assumes a certain naivete on the part of his administration, as if the buzz-saw of political opposition he walked into was something he could not possibly have foreseen. We're not so sure about that. The President is a consummate Alinskyite. He is well-schooled – and has schooled others – in the art of political confrontation. He has been steeped in Hyde Park radicalism his entire adult life. He took a racial grievance-monger for a wife, sought out a church and a pastor well known for hateful and inflammatory rhetoric, befriended unrepentant American-born terrorists, fought dirty and won in Illinois state politics before vaulting to the national stage, and championed pro-abortion legislation so extreme that a simple description of it would be suitable as a synopsis for a horror movie. Politics is a blood sport for Barack Obama. He knew perfectly well what was coming when he signed off on the new HHS regulations. The table below is an abbreviated history of the contraception controversy from the day it began to the present. We're confident that even dipping your toes into it will be enough to convince you that the Obama Administration was spoiling for a fight from the get-go. And if it's a fight they wanted, it's a fight they've got – and one they're going to lose.
A History of the Contraception Controversy
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