The USCCB Really Needs To Stop Encouraging Obama

(CHRISM NEWS/ SUZANNE CARL) When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced that they were in support of the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, many lay Catholics were concerned that they were aligning themselves with a politician who was so pro-abortion that any health care choices offered in the new law would be incompatible with Catholic teaching. These concerns were well founded.

Since the law was encacted, the Affordable Care Act has proven to be neither affordable nor about care. The elderly and the very young are in danger from the expanded requirements for end-of-life counseling and the required coverage of abortafacients - even when serious conscience protections are stated.

As Americans, we have never had less religious freedom regarding the intrinsic value of life at its beginnings and ends.

Moreover, Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor and architect of much of Obamacare, bragged about duping stupid Americans into wanting the Affordable Care Act.

Now the USCCB is encouraging President Obama to act unilaterally on immigration. While being generous with widows, orphans and aliens in a strange land has strong biblical foundations, President Obama has proven nothing except that he cannot be trusted.

Here is a portion of the letter sent from the USCCB to President Obama:

“We write to urge you to use your authority to protect undocumented individuals and families as soon as possible, within the limits of your executive authority. With immigration reform legislation stalled in Congress, our nation can no longer wait to end the suffering of family separation caused by our broken immigration system."

This past summer, we saw an influx of children from Central America. In all previous centuries, the Catholic Church would have sent missionaries to assist in caring for these people in their own countries. Unfortunately, we don’t have the vocations to provide that kind of assistance now.

Many school districts are reporting being overwhelmed with immigrant children, many who do not speak English, and who do not have parents in the country with them. Some of these children were sent here expressly to provide an anchor for their parents who hope to join them in the future.

Some arrived with serious diseases. Diseases that have caused minor epidemics in communities that were united in trying to provide for them after they arrived.

It is not unreasonable to think that some of the recent immigrants mean harm to our citizens. Drug cartels in Mexico have found it lucrative, at between $5000 and $10,000 per person, to assist terrorists into the United States. With President Obama's unilateral action tonight, we can expect more of the same.

As Catholics, we should help those in need. As Americans, we should uphold laws that retain our freedom and our integrity. President Obama has shown himself to be both a consistent opponent of religious liberty, and a usurper of American sovereignty.

The USCCB is wrong to align itself with this evil man, and naïve to think he would help them.

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