Alinsky would be proud

Obama should be in jail, this dictator who legislates through executive orders and Czars, government agency regulations, should be sharing space at Gitmo with his jihadi palls.

Why would anyone be surprised by the antics of talentless individuals hired by NBC or the NFL at the halftime show. The halftime break was worthless, save for a publicity stunt to further the carrer of an ignorant rapper who has no merit, and an aging pop star with even less tallent. With such vast arrays of actual artists who provide very wholesome entertainment, what did they thing would happen when they hire rediculous idiots whose carrers are based on shocking we citizens who abhore them? Of course these are the same morons who champion the traitor in charge who is destroying America.

I had to renew my library card this past December. I was required to not only renew in person but also produce a photo ID. At least as much ought to be required in order to vote.

I disagree with the president and his "compromise". I believe this is clearly a violation of our constitution and creates a slippery slope where the government can mandate anything it wants. We only need to look to history to see where this can go. very dangerous - remember Germany in the 1930's.

bad idea. congress should pass laws - not the president

Catholic Church as a general rule doesn't use insurance, and everything is provided as charity anyway, thus it would have to pay for all that the Fuehrer said it will not have to...

It's a sham.

I BELIEVE WHEN OBAMA PROMISED TO CHANGE AMERICA, HE MEANT JUST THAT. AND THIS MANDATE WHICH THREATENS OUR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IS MORE THAN THAT. HE IS A SMART POLITITIAN WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO BE RE-ELECTED. SO, WHEN HE TAKES OFFICE AGAIN NEXT JANUARY, HE WILL SLAP ALL CHURCHES WITH AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO COMPLY WITH HIS MANDATE.

AND MAKE NO MISTAKE, HE WILL BE RE-ELECTED BECAUSE PEOPLE OF FAITH ARE TOO APATHETIC TO CARE ABOUT THEIR LIBERTY.

This is just the most recent of Obama's many steps that show him to be out of sync with what America has historically been. The answer is simple: He must go in November. No ifs, ands, or buts. Then, we can begin the labor of tearing down the edifice he has built.

A politician saying anything to get elected, I am shocked.

Barry Payne, Titular Despot Emeritus

I'm not smellin' what the Barack is cookin'!!!!

This man has NO RIGHT to even talk to the American people, let alone TELL us what we will and will not do !! Check out YOUR Congress in action ...You may have to copy and paste..??

Click here: BLOCKBUSTER REVELATION! - MINI Documentary - Illegal Obama "Propped Up" By Congress! - YouTube

Mr. Obama is just another arm and tool of the "Communist Socialist Party of America". As stated by Norman Mattoon Thoms who was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialis Party of America in his 1944 speech: "The American people will never knowlingly adopt socialism. But under the name of 'Liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened" He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform"

No more need to be said.

More proof that Obama is using America's Constitution as toilet paper. What's sad is the Democrat party as a whole is going right along with him. Most people have never read or studied America's Constitution, and everything Obama and the democrats have done, is unconstitutional. Obama figured he could void the First Amendment.

Compromise is a four letter work for Obama. He did not compromise during the first two years of his administration and will not unless absolutely backed to a wall. I cannot imagine what lack of compromise will exist if he is reelected for another four years by the ignorance masses who trade having their extended hands filled with freebies for a vote for this incompitent, unyielding man.

Obama is a fool in his folly. Whenever your opponent is destroying himself, don't intefer. Let him finish the job for us.

I'd like to know where he thinks he gets the authority to edict things such as this. Every single day he usurps more power with hardly a whimper out our elected officials. The list of impeachable offenses he has committed is too long to show here but this one has to be the most outrageous. I hope that not only the churches go after him on this but also the insurance companies who should not be told how to run their business. God help us all if this isn't stopped soon.

Obama will do as he pleases and no Republican or patriotic Democrat will lift a finger to stop him. Wonder if the Catholic church will shut down the Catholic hospitals and clinics?

There is NO compromise in his agenda, and we all know what that is!!!!!

Obviously, if contraceptives are to be supplied at no cost, the insurance companies will have an additional expense. This expense will be passed on to all policy holders in the form of higher premiums. Obama just can't stop saying he is providing something for free, when nothing is free, someone has to pay.

Dave, very well said!

Obama's "compromise" is no such thing!

I just read the Catholic bishop's plea to urge congress to co-sponsor "Rights of Conscience Act".

This just plays into Obama's agenda and legitimizes Obamacare.

For such learned men of the cloth these men are truly out of their depth when dealing with the likes of this devious marxist statist.

What were they thinking when they backed Obamacare in the first place??????

First - abortion, by any method, is NOT birth control, it is killing a human being.

Second - the government has no authority to tell any business what they must cover in insurance.

Birth control and murder should not be spoken of as the same thing.

I am not catholic, but they should not have to pay for this. Potential employees know they are applyin for a job with a religious based institution and they should be willing to accept the instutions terms as readily as they accept the paycheck.

This ploy is just another attempt by obama to secure (he believes) another segment of the voting population.

People: Vote Freedom First and Foremost.

I do not trust Obama. Since he took office he has not lived up to his word. In the real world we call this bullsh++t.

Does the phrase "bovine excrement" sound familiar? Obama is doing what politicians do best...obscuring the truth with the afore mentioned euphemism.

This president is sneaky. There is no compromise. What happened to the PC crowds crowing about SEPERATION of church and state?

Obama's compromise: finally transparency from this admin, a very transparent slieght-of-hand.

The "compromise" is nothing but semantics. If the coverage is required, the insurance company will figure it in with the overall premium, but say it is "not included". Otherwise, he is requiring the insurance company to provide "something for nothing". Not a good business plan, and violates the thirteenth amendment (slavery). "What?!" you ask? Obama ignore the Constitution? Say it ain't so -

The Catholic Church operates about 1000 medical facilities of all types They serve about 92,000,000

people. If the Bishops wiil announce the closing of all these facilities UNESS the Federal mgovenment divests itself os ALL laws and regulations concerning contraception and/or abortion, I do believe the issue will rendered moot post haste

The mistake on the part of her Royal Highness Sebelious is that the American people are stupid and can't figure things out for themselves. Of course, the Prevaricator in Chief is pulling the strings and her Royal Highness is dancing.

This is no compromise. Nothing is free and those under the mandated coverage will pay, even Roman Catholics. In eight months,more or less, we can drive these people out of office. Can we "hope" for something better and make a "change"? God help us all.

Obama continues to wipe his rectal orifice with the Constitution out of pure contempt. The US Constitution is the greatest political document ever written and neither needed nor needs revision.

This is without a doubt his effort to treat us as if we are too stupid to know better. This is a slap on our religious freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution! Anyone who cannot see how this can easily become government mandates on religion need to stop and look clearly at what has happened over the past 3 years and the multiple abuses of the Constitution. The very freedoms we hold dear are in jepordy!

Same slimy crap that bastard always attempts,Shame we don't have a congressman with a spine on that sorry SOB would have been long gone,should have been impeached 2 years ago, he is a Liar,Thief,communist

Muslim.I have been informed that lead poisoning is a deterrent for his type

The Presidents plan is to stop churches from providing for the needy and bring them all in to the government's fold because the more people who are dependent on the government to care for them, the more votes they will have. This is in no way a compromise.

In the first place Catholics are not the only religions that oppose birth control and abortions. On this there is no compromise. This is the same thing that caused prayer to be removed from schools, and you can see where that got us! The government needs to keep it's nose out of our business.

This is without a doubt his effort to treat us as if we are too stupid to know better. This is a slap on our religious freedoms guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution! Anyone who cannot see how this can easily become government mandates on religion need to stop and look clearly at what has happened over the past 3 years and the multiple abuses of the Constitution. The very freedoms we hold dear are in jepordy!

This is an attach on all Christians, not just Catholics.

Why the timing of this attach?

This man is extremely politically astute. He is throwing gasoline on this fire at this specific time for reason.

WHY?

After three plus years of enduring the "Buffet Puppet" regime one thing stands out the most. They have perfected their PHDs in Situation Ethics 101.This perfection is not limited to the left and that is why one could easily rage as if they had just hammered thier fingers on a frosty day with a drywall hatchet.

Another attempt by Mr. Obama to deceive the citizens of this country. Deception and falsehoods will be his legacy. I have come to realize that many or even most politicians distort truth to suit their purpose but Mr. Obama has carried his proclamations to a new level of deception. What does a person have when he abandons his honor?

Obama has once again pushed the role of government beyond our constitution guidelines. Unless the individual mandate is struck down by the Supreme Court, we are allowing Obama a free hand to expand the role of government into making health care what ever he wants to be, and allows to government to have free reign into the suppression of other individual freedoms and choices.

Obama's "compromise" is laughable. First, it is indicative of his arrogance that he wants to move into a negotiation phase. The only answer Catholics should give is "no" -- why on earth should Obama be allowed to make such a decree and then negotiate anything further? More importantly, the answer from Catholics from a moral and doctrinal standard is no, we will not provide such treatments even if they are "free." Second, his compromise, like all things Obama, is completely phony -- insurance companies provide blanket coverage policies that cover a range of conditions. If the insurance companies are forced to cover these various abortion treatments at no charge, they will simply build that cost into the overall price of the coverage and just not bill for those specific abortion treatments. As a result, not only would the Catholic institutions still be paying for those treatments in the bottom-line cost of the plan, their rates will go up as the insurance companies seek to cover what the projected rates of those abortion treatments will be. Hopefully, this will be only one more item on the scale for the Independent voters who gave Obama the election in 2008 to see what a hideous mistake they made, and will convince them to vote him out in November.

if obama gets reelected it just means that america is no more...and the real americans have left ..

My take is that as usual, Obama is overplaying his dictatorial hand and and playing God. But what should we expect differently. It was an ill conceived healthcare plan that was never intended for healthcare. When you go back in history and see what that guy from Germany with the mustache did, his rise to power and his social mandates, it appears that comrade Obama read his book. If we don't learn from history, we are bound to repeat it. It is overdue, we need to show Obama the door.

The United States Constitution was written in English. So were the Federalist Papers that were written by the framers of the Constitution so that there could be no confusion as to he meaning of their words. I don't NEED someone to interpret the Constitution for me. The framers saw to it that I could interpret it for myself. I will ignore any and all actions of the federal government that violates not only the United States Constitution, but their oath to defend and support the Constitutions from...apparently, themselves. If they don't take their oaths seriously [...and Obama's was given TWICE and it still apparently didn't take!], I do....and I'm not Catholic, but they won't stand against this revolution [for it is a revolution agains the United States Constitution] alone. And, I believe that comment fits the FBI's new terrorist profile to a "T"!

Only a dummy would buy into this so called compromise. This is called deception or a lie.

As a traditional Catholic I am greatly disappointed with Catholic Bishops who only became disturbed when Obamacare impacted their health care organizations and other agencies. They did not object to this killer ObamaCare that will limit care and be a death knoll for many Americans. They did not stand up for all of the Catholics that pay their bills and salaries. Many of them voted for Obama and true Marxist. How dumb can one be?

Horse feathers

When, Oh When are We Gonna Wake Up to just what this POTUS has on His Agenda for the U.S.? This Charade is just more of his same Objective for a Central Governmental Control over the people in this country. It's Call Socialism, Pure and Simple. To achieve this is What we've been told over and again is to begin with the Control of Health Care !We are Not gonna get off this Path until We rid ourselves of this Usurper (Dictator) POTUS ! IT'S NOT COMPLICATED !!

Obama's "compromise" is laughable. First, it is indicative of his arrogance that he wants to move into a negotiation phase. The only answer Catholics should give is "no" -- why on earth should Obama be allowed to make such a decree and then negotiate anything further? More importantly, the answer from Catholics from a moral and doctrinal standard is no, we will not provide such treatments even if they are "free." Second, his compromise, like all things Obama, is completely phony -- insurance companies provide blanket coverage policies that cover a range of conditions. If the insurance companies are forced to cover these various abortion treatments at no charge, they will simply build that cost into the overall price of the coverage and just not bill for those specific abortion treatments. As a result, not only would the Catholic institutions still be paying for those treatments in the bottom-line cost of the plan, their rates will go up as the insurance companies seek to cover what the projected rates of those abortion treatments will be. Hopefully, this will be only one more item on the scale for the Independent voters who gave Obama the election in 2008 to see what a hideous mistake they made, and will convince them to vote him out in November.

I don't understand why people think that Obama is so brilliant. If he thinks that insurance companies pay claims out of the goodness of their hearts and not from the premiums that people pay, he is too stupid not only to be president, but too stupid to exist.

This is classic Maobama. He really thinks he is the smartest one of the block and we are too dumb to understand his brilliance.

Webster's defines "compromise" as: a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.

Where is it that there was a "mutual concession"?

It's just another re-election ploy. Shame on the Congress for not having had the courage, conviction and steadfast belief in our Constitution. They failed to exercise their Checks when he started appointing these "Czars". Now he's emboldened to do more to destroy our way of life.

We are not dupped. Money comes from some source not from the insurance company. So what happens? The insurance company raises its premiums so the Christian pays for abortifacient just indirectly. We are not fooled. A skunk called a rose is still a skunk.

Why does anyone need to compromise on this law? It is invalid and a hypocracy to millions. Why is a person that is deemed our president and a 'Harvard Law' graduate constantly having to be reminded of the constitutuion and bill of rights? What did he learn at Harvard? He still doesn't seem to understand that this country was built by God fearing men! Anything that has God on it should be given up by this president including all the money he receives and spends that says "IN GOD WE TRUST". Well, a guy can dream.

Sincerely, David K. Mather

President Obama's 'accomodation' is nothing of the sort and is laughable on the face of it. What kind of economic infant thinks the insurance company will actually not pass on those costs?

This whole idea of a school or employer being responsible for the health care issue has to do with dictatorship. America has always been a free country but we are fast loosing our freedoms. Hope the entire healthcare program is done away with. I hope the next election changes things and get America back to the freedoms that our constitution guarantees.

Because he never ran a business, he doesn't understand that nothing is "Free". Someone has to pay for it, & in this case it is the Catholic Church that will pay.

It is interesting how the lefts insist on separation of church and state in regards to public expressions of faith such as Christmas displays,crucifixes, prayer in government buildings and schools but with an iron fist forces people of faith to pay for what they consider infanticide under the cover of contraception. Evey American who has health insurance will pay to provide the birth control pill, the, morning after pill,and sterilizations under the new mandate of free contraception for all women. If this isn't interfering in the freedom of religion what is. If the Catholic church closes it's services it will cost the taxpayers billions, probably trillions to replace them!

Compromise? I guess the "useful idiots" will fall for that one!

Our parish priest read a letter from the Archbishop at Mass on Sunday, and followed it with his expression of why the administration's policy was wrong and why the proffered "compromise" was no such thing.

The congregation actually applauded at the conclusion of the homily. In over 65 years of listening to Sunday sermons, I never once heard a sermon greeted by applause.

Halleluljah.

The run up to Super Bowl XLVI was all about the commercials and halftime show. Over the years NFL Championship Game has been replaced as the star of its own show. It is just more evidence of our shallowness as a culture, the depths to which we have sunk.

When BO was elected...it occurred to me that he might be the 'anti-christ'...! Now I am convinced..!

This administration and many "democrats" are functioning directly from the teachings of Marx. I am amazed so many of our citizens are willing to let these people ignore our Constitution and our rights. I think we'll zip past socialism and straight into something much worse, and do it before the next general elections.

B.S.!!

More slick talk from an accomplished lier. Or should I say slick talk from a Moor?

There is no compromise. It's a shell game. Anyone with half a brain realizes that, "There is no such thing as a FREE lunch." Nor is there FREE contraceptive care. To say that insurance companies will provide FREE coverage is to believe in the tooth fairy! (And that's not a homophobic joke. Just want to cover all the bases.)

It isn't a cave or a compromise. He doesn't have the authority to impose such restrictions upon the Church. Neither does he have the authority to force insurance companies to deliver abortion meds and services by Presidential fiat.

He was, unfortunately, elected President, not King. He acts as if he is the embodiment of all three branches of the government.

Unfortunately "we" raised a generation that is mostly responsible for "allowing" such a "person" to be "legally" elected as the President of these United States. I am offended by his gold curtains that backdrop his podium as he delivers. It is "TOO" much Persian Peninsula! Along with Obama being a liar and a cheat, I'm still wondering of his origin or where-a-bouts. I have lived, passing thru a time, when we on a forty footer, USN, removed pier oysters at the water line for President Truman while moored along his little yacht, The Williamsberg. I have met a number of presidents and VPs. So I have been around a "good while"! Until this person, "The Big O", and his crew have taken their seats, I have felt that this land of The USA has been secure and with a confidence that excluded any doubt as to the future of our country, but now not so! Whether or not this b------ is purpatrating os is completely oblivious he needs to go.

This is another example of Arrogance as a sign of ignorance. Obama is so arrogant, he ignorantly believed he could fool the masses with his "compromise" that isn't. His arrogance led him to believe that his unconstitutional edicts could be dressed up as choice issues, when they were truly, and blatantly, an assault on freedom of religion as protected by the Constitution.

Let's not forget, this is how the Nazis took control in Germany!

Common Sense from the Heartland - http://howardwemple.com

Hard to not make an obscene comment but this will have to do...It is a clear violation of the right of those of any faith to practice their religious beliefs with no interference from the government. It is the Obama "foot in the door" ploy again...

It said the apple does not fall far from the tree. Satan is the father of lies. By their fruit shall ye know them. Ephesians chapter 2 speaks of our conversation (way of life ) as having once been ruled by the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which still worketh in the [huion ton diamonion]children of the devil. It is a frightful thing to see such hellish effort so openly displayed by so many people. There is great danger in having restoration without sincere repentance.

The clarion call is as clear as it has ever been.

REPENT Barack Obama and your minions as well.

The "compromise" is worthless window dressing. Even if a Religous Organization is exempted, the insurance company will factor the cost of the "Free" contaceptives into the contract and the cost will be paid by the organization or individuals in the group. Obama should be smart enough to figure that one out - and believe me, he has.

We're now seeing the effect of government imposing it's will on healthcare. There is no convincing me that the government has the authority to compel a citizen to purchase a product, nor require insurers to provide specific items, benefits or services.

Why are we waiting until the election to get rid of Obama? He has proven, over and over again, that he refuses to follow the Constitution, therefore he should be impeached.

President Obama's attempt to impose his mandates are a violation of the First Amendment and his attempt to BY PASS it is also an insult to the intelligence of the American Public. Whether a person is Catholic or not is neither here nor there but a principle that is of grave concern to all religions.

So all the prior assurances to religious leaders that he would work out specifics agreeable to them was nothing more than a colossal untruth.

Joseph Randoloph, author of Debilitating Democracy

The idea that companies, who earn a certain amount of money providing health care, will take a loss on providing some free service is nonsense. It doesn't take a genius to figure the rest of the services cost will rise to cover the loss. It is a shell game. Obama and his minions should be embarrassed at the deception. What a horrible example for the abrogation of religious freedom in this Country.

Alaska John

Folks, it is not just the Catholics who are against this mandate! I am a strong, if you must use adjectives to describe Christians, Protestant Christian who takes the Bible at its word and Do Not believe in abortion. Mr. 0bama claims to be a Christian but with his early Muslim upbringing, I do question his claims. Maybe it is his pro-choice wife.

Several points.

Contraception is not "preventive medicine". Preventive medicine prevents diseases. One must analogize that pregnancies are diseases to see them as medicine.

One is free to purchase or obtain one's own contraceptive devices. They are relatively inexpensive. This seem like government subsidizing and anti-child campaign.

In order for any rule, order, statute or law to pass constitutional muster, it must do something to protect the public health, welfare, morals, or safety. Can someone please explain to me how population control through unrestricted, on demand abortions meet any of these constitutional requirements where a potential baby's life is concerned?

He is a lying slug no matter what he says...people that believe ANYTHING this warthog says in absolutely INSANE!

Mr. Obama is at his best when rhetorically "weasel dancing" amongst inscensed smoke and darkened mirrors.

His apparent philosophies are a threat to America's traditions and values, which should have been apparent to anyone paying attention in 2008.

His actions, associations and rhetoric appear to reflect an anti-American, radical leftist and Islamic sympathizer....

B.O. was not surprised by the firestorm. He has calculated that more voters hate the Catholic church than comprehend the bill of rights. He thinks he will increase his popularity overall by sticking it to those disgusting Catholics.

...free exercise... For a 'constitutional law professor' to misunderstand those 2 words is unbelievable. I can only conclude that he did not, in fact, misunderstand. I pray that God has not abandoned us, for revival to break out across the land. The Constitution that I love and pledge allegiance to can not be without His blessings. Pray, pray hard. We have to prevail.

These Obama-Care guidelines are an egregious assault not only on the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion and religious institutions, but also on insurance companies. Somebody has got to pay for abortificiants, namely those who pay premiums to health insurance providers, people like me - people like me who do not want to pay for the thinly disguised "birth control" wants and wishes of other health insurance claimants. Caeser is ever and always more ambitious.

AGAIN you have to post a picture of the prevaricator in chief, only this time, he looks like he had a lemon for breakfast. And speaking of breakfast, I almost lost mine.

As for "compromise", the founding fathers did not once put "compromise" into the language of the Constitution. It is NOT a "living" document, malleable to suit one or another's ulterior motive or agenda, any more than the Bible is. But there are people who say both are, so it must be true, right? WRONG!! Can't wait for November.

"And thus, the word came forth from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius decreeing the exact criteria required to qualify to be qualified a religion.." Come on! It isn't plausible that this was her idea. Mr. President, you say you are a Christian; it's high time to act like one and quit acting the opposite.

My two children would not be alive, if they had been aborted. They were adopted. My second wife"s oldest was saved, because the abortioist she was being taken to by her mother died the day before they arrived.

Obama is trying to be our God. Vote wisely this fall.

I cannot find anywhere in the constitution where power is given to the President to dictate to any Church or private enterprize how they will conduct their business or what they will simply give away.

This President is out of line and congress needs to bind him with the chains of the constitution.

I find it appalling the sheer number of our citizens that still cannot see this administration for what it is. BHO DETESTS the Constitution. He has created more division and more debt than Jimmy, Slick Willy, and two Georges combined. He is transparent - supporting middle of the night legislation that was never read. He makes love to dictators then murders them through those very service people he derides. BHO is so many faced to call him two-faced or hypocrite RAISES his level to merely unacceptable. He had two full years of owning CORNgress, executive branches and liberal media. Yet, a truer unemployment of 11%+, division, and finger pointing is ALL he has really achieved. And is STILL PUSHING.

WAKE UP AMERICA - smell what he is shoveling on our graves and children!

Republicans are a joke - but, at least I can laugh at them! BHO makes me want to cry all the way to my UNEMPLOYMENT office.

Our muslim, communist,pretender in chief once again proclains powers he doesn't have while congress refuses to assert their constitutional duty to remove him from office. Small wonder people have such a low opinion of these self serving criminals. Their day of reconing is soon to hit them squarely in the face.

The unborn, and us elderly, have almost dodged this latest bullet from BHO. It's certainly about freedom, but it's also about the government declaring who can live and who should die. Make no mistake about that

KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF RELIGION AT ALL COST! They do such a great job at all they do now. Social Security, Postal Service, unemployment, medicare shall I go on?

Do not let them "regulate religion".

Love your bumper sticker "2013 The End of an Error" but could not use it in Illinois as the car would likely be vandalized.

My 5 yo grandson weho lives with us would not be alicve if it were not for a very top notch Catholic Hospital, St. Francis in Hartford, Ct. it cost them $250,000 and they asked nothing from my destitute daughter. They have my 100% support in this matyter as the Constitution is quite clear as are Obma's Criminal Intentions. Abortionis murder and that is Objective Fact. if you do not protect life at it's beginning, when do you start?

You can not have Freedom and Obama.

more smoke and mirrors, it's what he does the best, other than out-right lie

He is a complete hypocrite and he believes that the American people are stupid enough to believe him.

C'mon folks! The "Dictator and Chief" has made it quit clear where we will be with four more years of his rule! Lets not make the same mistake again in November!

Typical Obama garbage spin.

Comrade "Boom-Boom" Obama forgot to check the Constitution re: Insurance companies. Since when can the government tell an insurance company what they 'must' cover.

Mr. Obama took an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States. He has done nothing but trample on the document and will continue to do so if re-elected. I am an independent voter and can assure everyone that whoever runs against him will get my vote. His cronyism makes me sick to my stomach along with everything else he has done to take away our freedom. His agenda is not a rule of law but a rule of man.

comprimise I hardly think so. For insurance companies to give any thing, they charge first, and after election, if Obama-bin-lying is elected, he will go after the churches that have caused him all this problem

Like him....it's BS in capitol letters.

This a blaton over reach of government at any level and needs to be repulsed at every turn.

I think Obama is a puppet for the political power elite, who have an agenda of world domination and control. He's just doing what they tell him. Part of that agenda includes depopulation, and they attempt it in many different ways, including fomenting perpetual warfare, and including abortion. And taking the lives of God's children before they are even conceived.

We who do have access to the all-power of God through Christ - and I do NOT believe these fallen ones have such access - God took it from them when they rebelled against Him, so they work to dupe us into giving them our allegiance and our power - we must stand up to them, in a legal and peaceful manner, stop giving them our power, and not allow them to control us and take away our liberties. The more we sit by and allow this the more they will do so, and a requirement like this one is a prelude to forcing baby killing and euthanasia.

BO is a manipulator.

Ed Feulner is out of touch and clueless if he thinks working for the Federal Government doesn't have it's difficulties that are NOT a part of the private sector. We receive what should be considered fair compensation for the additional "issues" we face by working for the Feds. He and poeple like him are envious of government jobs and pay as if they didn't/don't have the same opportunity to WORK towards a career in Civil Service.

I think that if the Catholic Church and it's "Free" clinics are forced to provide abortion and contraceptive services, then the Muslims who have rested on US soil should be forced to eat Pork. I can't see a real difference between the two, because both are a direct violation of that religeous group's beliefs. By the way, aren't the Muslims and their holidays constantly Protected in this country under the premise of "Freedom of Religeon" if I'm not mistaken? Why then are Catholics and Protestants alike continually attacked and victimized? Kinda seems like a double standard the way I see it.

Food for thought.

Obama is pro-death and anti-freedom forever and he is a collectivist and an elitist. He sees no other room for religion but manipulation. Hence, rescinding his foolishness is not going to change anything and he will continue looking for ways to destroy life, killing babies and to make freedom or life, gifts of government and not from they truly are, gifts from God.

I think Republicans must take the Senate as well as the house, and Obama frog-marched down the Capitol steps to impeacment. The sooner the better!

Bulltwinkies

This seems a reasonable compromise, however, the insurance companies will charge this cost to general overhead as a part of doing business and spread it over their total number of insured. Te cost will be shared by all regardless of their use of contraception, catho;ic or not.

Compromise? Who is he kidding? WHY would insurance company PAY for services if they are not building it into premium? How about a compromise that insurance companies, church etc don't pay, any cost will be paid by obama and the DNC PERSONALLY!

More significant than the church and state issue however is establishing a benefit that THE INDIVIDUAL pays NOTHING FOR! Have we learned NOTHING per the mess the cpuntry's finances are in? There is no such thing as a FREE benefit!

As a Christian, I am not surprised! He continues to get away with making his own laws, openly and deceitfully and the media continues to let him get away with it. If the media would only print half of what Obama is about - thousands of people who voted for him the first time, would NOT vote for him again.

B.O. was not surprised by the firestorm. He has calculated that more voters hate the Catholic church than comprehend the bill of rights. He thinks he will increase his popularity overall by sticking it to those disgusting Catholics.

The man doesn't know the meaning of the word compromise - as far as he is concerned, there is only one way and one thought: his. Everyone else is completely wrong unless they march in complete lockstep like good little robots.

I'm trusting that the Bible is truly God's Word as it does say ".........and this too shall pass". I'm praying that it is SOONER rather than LATER~ Don't know if we can stand much more of our POTUS's "compromises" and blatant disregard for our Constitution.

It's more of the same "double speak" he is so handy with and I don't believe he means it anyway.

This is a trial balloon. If he gets away with this and is reflected the Second Amendment will be his next target. Be very afraid my fellow Americans.

I certainly don't look for issues to argue over with you, I'm an ardent support of all things "Patriot Post," but I must take issue with your invoking Jefferson's extra-constitutional "wall-of-separation" concept when discussing the present conflict over birth-control under "Obamacare" and Catholic hospitals. This one "doctrine," erroneously identified as constitutional, has done more harm to the public expression of religion, specifically Christianity, than anything in our 200+ history.

I THINK OBAMA BIT OFF MORE THAN HE CAN CHEW. WHAT BUSINESS IS OUR RELIGION TO THE GOVERNMENT? IT'S NONE OF THEIR CONCERN! THEY HAVE ALREADY PROVEN THAT THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO TAKE CARE OF THE CONCERNS OF THE GOVERNMENT,(INDEBTEDNESS) THAT THEY WERE HIRED TO DO. MUCH LESS THE PRIVATE AFFAIRS OF THE POPULAS OF THE COUNTRY. I'M WAITING FOR NOVEMBER, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF HIS SOCIALISM TO LAST A LIFE TIME. I ALREADY FEEL LIKE I'M LIVING IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, INSTEAD OF AMERICA, "THE LAND OF THE FREE",,,This is just My Opinion.

Looks like the Church's backing of democrats,has backfired.

A President dictating what insurance companies must cover ! We should all be very, very scared.

In regard to the "Culture" section of the 02/13/2012 issue of The Patriot, I would like to add comments about the 'singing' of the National Anthem priot to the game. I wrote the following message to the NFL Commissioner, but have had no response at this writing.

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officeofcommissioner@nfl.com

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Dear Commissioner Goodell:

While the world is up in arms about the quality & judgement of what is entertainment over the unsociable display of vulgarity during the half time, I must to add my cheers to the commotion over the act.

However, and in addition to the above, and as a veteran, I add to that, comments concerning the singing of our national anthem. I am sick and tired of these so called stars murdering & mutilating the words, history, meaning and sentiment, of the Star Spangled Banner, which I deeply cherish, love, and hold in the greatest esteem and meaning.

Those words penned by Francis Scott Key, while under arrest, held prisoner aboard ship, and as he watched the British shelling and pounding the Fort, have a deep and sincere sense of hope, but also a responsibility. They were not created casually, and are not to be trashed into some sort of swinging, rock style arrangement! If the performer does not have the ability to sing it correctly, as created, get another performer!!!

Al Christensen

San Jose, California

Barack Obama does not compromise--he contradicts and lies! He'll say anything to get re-elected, and if that happens we will be living under a dictatorship! He has no regard for anything or anyone but himself. We can sit back like the Germans did and allow this Hitler to continue to gain power or we can do something about it while there is still time. I have never been so afraid for my country, but I'm not afraid to fight for it if it comes to that!

Obama is following the key rule of Communist negotiation: Two steps forward, one step backward; two steps forward, one step backward; etc. That is not responsible negotiation that is followed by a government based on the US Constitution - it is comtempt for a free system of government.

Whether or not Obama's contraception regulations compromise the rights of the Catholic Church or of other religious institutions is irrelevant. Those are side issues of secondary importance. The important question is does any government have a right to deny me my God-given right to think and believe whatever I want to think and believe.

This is an 'In-Your-Face' assault on religion in general and Christianity specifically. The liberals in this Country (some of whom are Rinos) do not get that they are killing actual human beings while getting outraged over damaging the environment. They have totally lost their minds and are, as Rush Limbaugh calls them, "Mind-numbed Robots" for the liberal establishment. This president has trampled on every freedom we enjoy and has to be stopped. I only pray we make it to the 2012 elections before he declares himself emperor and does away with our Constitution completely. Rise up, America!!

Why should my insurance company be required to pay for contrceptives which I will ultimately be required to pay for. I'm 75 and don't use contrrceptives but I will be required to pay for others this is what America is coming to WOW what a power grab!

I'm an evangelical Christian but I stand tall with the Catholic church on this issue. NO to the government mandates.

We have seen the show and Obo must go!!! I for on of many am sure there is a place for him...somewhere, anywhere else then here. When the jury trials start and they will for this most corrupt of all of administrations it will be harmful both to our country and people all because no politician is above the law but rather subject to the will of our people as expressed by our founding documents!

What a group of socialist anti God bureaucrats that King Obama has surrounded himself with to cover His lack of leadership abilities. He is a puppet with so many strings attached he has no idea why they are being pulled. God the Creator of the heavens and earth is and will be forever the only King. Sorry Obama for the false teaching you have accepted.

Obama's so-called "compromise" is no compromise at all. It's the same thing all over again disguised as itself. We are getting used to this ploy and wising up.

Ooh, I love to dance the little sidestep / Now they see me, now they don't / I've come and gone / And ooh, I love to sweep around a wide step / Cut a little swath / And lead the people on!

Forget about the whole religion/contraception issue...why do I, as a participant in a private health insurance plan, have to pay for someone else's contraceptives?

The last time I checked, pregnancy was not a disease or an illness.

The last time I check, having sex was a private, consensual, and voluntary activity (when it’s not, they call it rape).

And the last time I checked, a woman’s “fertility window” was about 7 days long, thus she doesn’t’ even need a contraceptive about 75% of the time.

Obama is forcing me, regardless of my religious beliefs, to pay for something that is a completely voluntary and non-health related activity. Perhaps the government should also force me to pay so that women can have free pantyhose and makeup too?

no surprise here, obongo backtracked to save his election. How many gullible idiots will believe he did it becasue it was the right thing to do? It's so easy to fool the multitudes of idiots. Black people don't care, they'll vote for him because he's one of them and welfare recipients will vote for him because they don't want to work and be a productive member of society.

obfuscation is one of the guideposts of this administration. In my opinion, this is also one of the primary reasons the Church will never accept a maneuver such as proposed by the President but instead will opt to close those Catholic Institutions entirely rather than bow down to an edict that is totally anathema to their beliefs and to the Constitutional Authority which is not vested in this Administrations actions nor most of the other actions to date.

My take on Obama's phony compromise should be obvious. What stuns me is seeing that idiot RINO Peggy Noonan's pap in today's Opinion In Brief section.

The government's action goes beyond the question of contraceptives and abortions. The illegal action on the part of Obama is just another attack on the basic freedoms and protections provided by our Constitution. His criminal actions clearly violate the restrictions on "State or government interference in the pursuit of religous practices,worship or mission"!

Obama's "shift in position" is really nothing more than a "shift in semantics". The results are the same and I don't know why people cannot see that. Frustrating

Let me understand this. Obama's "compromise" is that I no longer have to provide contraceptives to my staff, but now I have to pay someone else to do it for me? On that basis, murder by proxy should be legalized.

This pretender will not change. It's been obvious from day one that this is a Marxist in the White House.

Obama is a liar, cheat and a thief!!! He lies to the American people. He cheats the American people out of their Constitutional rights. He steals the American people out of their hard earned money by illegal taxation. This latest attempt at the willful destruction of the U.S. Constitution is just part of his intention to destroy the country that he hates.

Obama's new "compromise" is totally fraudulent. If the institution must provide medical insurance, it must pay for it. If the insurance co. must provide "contraceptive" benefits, then the institution is paying for the insurance that is providing the benefits, therefore is providing the benefits.

John W. La Celle, M.D.

Folks, it is not just the Catholics who are against this mandate! I am a strong, if you must use adjectives to describe Christians, Protestant Christian who takes the Bible at its word and Do Not believe in abortion. Mr. 0bama claims to be a Christian but with his early Muslim upbringing, I do question his claims. Maybe it is his pro-choice wife.

Obama is a professional liar. When he opens his mouth he has demonstrated his inability to tell the truth. look at his record.

Obama's quick turnaround was certainly his way to save catholic votes. I pray that all catholics see him for what he is and not vote for him in november.

OBUMMER CAN KISS MY AXX , DICTATORS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED,, ITS TREASONOUS, IN MY BOOK

This entire topic constantly clogging our news is not only diversive--It is disgusting. It has nothing to do with religious beliefs but all to do with the bottom line of drug compamies who make this stuff and the salaries of those who run the abortion clinics. If indeed a woman has a "right" to these things why in Heaven's name must someone else pay for it? Do men who use Viagra ask others to pay? I take many vitamins . Should others and not I pay?

If his lips are moving he is lying or otherwise attemping to manipulate the truth to somehow further his political standing and keep his ever present liberal agenda moving forward. He is implementing his plan to destroy America.

After having read several news columns and op-eds by various women espousing Obama's proposal and literally saying: "There is nothing wrong with it.", several things come to mind. 1. Morality: Something most people do not even understand or care to know about in the U.S. today; 2. Conscience: Usually limited today to "How much can I get away with."; 3. Ethics: A totally unknown quantity today, ignored by most colleges and universities and certainly by most, if not all politicians; 4. Depth and Comprehensiveness of Education: A missing link that is overwhelming us; 5. Understanding of Basic Constitutional Rights: If the Constitution and its attendant Bill of Rights are not taught in a universal curriculum and understood at an early age and reinforced by behavior that acknowledges its existence and what it means to be an American, guys like Obama will continually get away with the truly anti-American behavior and legislation with which they are trying to overwhelm this country with.

Oblunder doesn't even know the meaning of the word 'compromise'. To him, a compromise is something that allows his will to be done, no matter what. It can be simple semantics, or even changes to the wording of statutes or regulations, but the end result is always the same-that in the end Oblunder's will be done. It's that same old Cloward-Piven strategy that he's used since day one. ANY means or lies or corruptions are A-OK as long as Oblunder's ideas rule the day-and so long as he can continue to reduce the freedom that Americans enjoy, all in order to re-make this country in HIS image. Oblunder embodies the exact clinical definition of a true narcissist in every sense of the term. He truly believes that he is smarter than everyone else, and his followers are, for the most part, rabid to the point of being completely senseless-unable to be swayed by clear, objective facts. Democrats in general are very hostile to anyone who doesn't go along with their way of thinking. Even though facts are stubborn things, they will demonstrate willful and wanton adherence to the party line, no matter what the facts expose. They truly exhibit the epitome of the phrase "If you're not with us, you're against us". Anyone who dares to question the Oblunder line, anyone who dares to point out the myriad lies and flip flops that he has employed is instantly derided as 'backward' or 'old-fashioned'. These people are truly hostile to ANY dissent from the party line. Just ask any die-hard union member. They'll gladly give you an earful of the dem party line, with all the fervent desire of a tent revival, as long as you're willing to fill the plate when it's passed around. I've never met any group of people in my life who demonstrate such a willful and wanton aversion to clear, objective facts. If a desire to maintain personal freedom and belief in liberty and our Constitution is old-fashioned, then I'll gladly vow to remain old-fashioned for the rest of my life, and I don't mind being shown the factual information about anything.

I'm sick and tired of our Government passing all of these laws just to gain more control over all US citizens and the World! Babies who are aborted have a right to live...the people who abort need to be responsible and stop this killing field of innocent little babies! There are many ways to not have to have an abortion and it's about time our society stops relying on abortion for their contraceptives, it's morally wrong! The poor have so many ways already to get FREE birth control so they need to grow up and stop killing! Obama is a huge liar and I am so very sick of his Progressive, socialist, Marxists ways! America is NOT FOR SALE and STOP killing these precious babies! If everyone would see on film how this procedure is done they would change their minds...maybe that is what these young girls should see in High School Health class and they might change their minds and think about Morals!

The NWO does not care if Osama Obama cannot get re-elected because they own the Republican nominee who will win in a landslide. Check your history book and look at the Jimmy Carter re-election results. Same stuff different day.

Our kids and grandkids will wake up one morning and find that Hitler has returned. Obama must be stopped from trampling on the Constitution of the United States of America which he has violated numerous times. Why isn't there an outcry for his impeechment

I think each health insurance policy should state what it covers. Then people can buy what they want (and not what they don't want). If an organization offers health insurance, then a prospective employee can use that data to value her job-worth. I.e., keep the government out of the fine print.

this jerk is so full of crap and lies he cant do anything without a teleprompter..IMPEACHMENT SOON PLEASE...

We must have moral integrity in our nations people and elected officials. Moral fiber is different from secular man made rule of law. We can not legislate morals, no one can. Nor can we say that freedom means no law or morals.

Concerning Obama's "Compromise", I first heard of it and said that's good. Then I read what had been declared from upon high and knew that Obama had once again proven that you need to keep an eye on both hands because while you're watching the right hand, he is stabbing you with his left.

Obama's "Compromise" is anything but! Catholich and others with the same concerns re sanctity of life, are STILL required by Obama Care to provide insurance which includes birth control in it's entirety. Also, those who are self-insured, as are many Catholic entities, are still req

On January 22, 1973 America surrendered its conscience. With Roe v Wade, seven individuals decided for all of America that it is “legal” to mutilate millions of unborn babies, human beings with untold potential. Sadly, millions of Americans blindly accepted the opinion of these seven individuals and willingly subjugated their conscience to the facade of “freedom of choice”. We have therefore given the tyrants the courage to embezzle our very own beliefs. Will Americans surrender once again, or will we fight for our God given right??

I am confused. This provision for the religious institutions having to pay for "women's health care" is included in the "Obama Health Skare Bill." My understanding per the Constitution is that there is a separation of powers of the three branches of gov't. If, in fact, this is in the bill, does not this have to go back to Congress for amendment? If it is not in the bill, how does the Executive Branch create the case for religious groups to be compelled to participate. Can you see my confusion now? If either scenario is correct, was not the Constitution compromised? To me this seems like a case of "Constitutional Pornography."

God Help us all.

I am confused. This provision for the religious institutions having to pay for "women's health care" is included in the "Obama Health Skare Bill." My understanding per the Constitution is that there is a separation of powers of the three branches of gov't. If, in fact, this is in the bill, does not this have to go back to Congress for amendment? If it is not in the bill, how does the Executive Branch create the case for religious groups to be compelled to participate. Can you see my confusion now? If either scenario is correct, was not the Constitution compromised? To me this seems like a case of "Constitutional Pornography."

God Help us all.

I believe it is against God's will for me to kill another human being. I believe it is against God's will for me to HIRE someone to kill another human being for me. If that person is walking under his own power, the US Government would imprison me for either act. What makes Obama think that his "compromise" would in any way be acceptable to a person of faith and concience? For me to pay for an abortion either directly or indirectly goes against my faith.

Obama believes that his is the high law of the land.

I pray, (until he tells me I can't pray.)that he is gone soon, before he destroys everything this country has stood foor.

I am confused. This provision for the religious institutions having to pay for "women's health care" is included in the "Obama Health Skare Bill." My understanding per the Constitution is that there is a separation of powers of the three branches of gov't. If, in fact, this is in the bill, does not this have to go back to Congress for amendment? If it is not in the bill, how does the Executive Branch create the case for religious groups to be compelled to participate. Can you see my confusion now? If either scenario is correct, was not the Constitution compromised? To me this seems like a case of "Constitutional Pornography."

God Help us all.

Between 1532 and the end of the seventeenth century, mankind was provided with enough examples of what is glaringly wrong with Sebelius' HHS departments' declaration.

This is as clear an example of state interference with church matters as America has ever seen rise from her own. This administration should replace her immediately in order to protect what good may be left of its image. Failure to do so can only hurt them - and the rest of us.

My "take" on Obama's "compromise," is that obviously it's a meaningless word, as he uses it.

If you dictate that I must ride on your train or be taxed and possibly jailed, and I protest because I cannot in good conscience ride on your train; then you dictate, "You must ride on it, but I'll make your neighbor buy your ticket," in what way have you compromised, if I yet must ride on your train?

My take on the left's long term position on Jefferson's letter, his use of the analogy of "a wall between church and state," is that what the left has accomplished unconstitutionally, they've done by missinterpreting with a purpose everything they read, in order to twist a basic principle into serving the reverse of its intention.

'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,'

This clearly refers to government in relation to each of us. Nowhere in our Constitution is it written that "religious institutions" are all that is hands off federal jurisdiction. Since that "wall" applies to each and every citizen of good conscience, anywhere, at all times, the federal government has no legal right to dictate or force any citizen's conscientious objection to tax sponsored abortion, any more than it has a legal right to tax us for inhaling and exhaling.

It Sucks. It isn't a compromise it is a delay to gain support and strenght in his position and then he will drop the bomb when it is too late to fight back.

Just another "branch" sprouting from the most far reaching and dangerous (to our liberties) piece of legislation ever pass by the Congress of the United States. There are many more of these coming in the next 12 - 24 months unless Obama and the Congress is stopped and this aberration is repealed !!

Incremental, put something out then chip away when someone takes a stand so at the end of the day, you end up with what you really wanted to begin with. This guy is a master of deception.

I agree that what Obama has announced as a compromise only shifts the mandate to the insurance companies. He's still dictating to us! In his SOTU speech, he said that everyone must play by the same rules... HIS rules!

As a relatively new resident of New Hampshire, I was appalled to read in the New Hampshire Sunday News that NH already has such a requirement and that it has been in place since January 1, 2000!!

Check it for yourself at unionleader.com

'Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment,' Melinda Henneberger of the Washington Post offered to Chris Matthews on MSNBC

Actually, they were right in including the requirement that Congress would pass no law because the founders were quite aware of what a state religion could do. For example, the Church of England which persecuted those who didn't believe as they demanded drove the Pilgims to this continent.

The headlines read, Obama “Accommodates”, or Obama “Capitulates”, over the HHS mandate for Religious institutions to offer all employees birth control prescriptions, the so called morning after pill, sometimes called chemical abortion, and a sterilization procedure, tubal ligation, at absolutely no cost to employees. The Administration’s goal is to dampen down the unexpected outrage of the Catholic Bishops Priests and parishioners, and others of religious and moral beliefs, who object to paying for such goodies on the basis of fundamental religious beliefs.

The solution offered by this accommodation or capitulation is a transfer of the burden of offering these reproductive health benefits to insurers with the restrictions that those insurers may not pass on the costs of such benefits specifically to that employer. If anyone believes that insurers will simply absorb those costs as a gesture of goodwill to Obama and mankind, retain a belief in the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny. Of course these will be added to everyone’s health care premiums, just try to find it. Actuaries are not actuaries because they are benevolent; it is because they are hard headed mathematicians and business people.

Such mandates imposed by the accommodation of Obama are nothing more than obfuscation of the truth; forcing a person, private company, public corporation or religious based institution to pay for, directly or indirectly, a medication or procedure that is in conflict with moral principles, is simply reprehensible. Is the President so bold that the Constitution is irrelevant? I guess so! It is also a slippery slope. If a government can mandate free, to the insured, coverage for birth control medication, tubal ligation form of sterilization and chemical abortive morning after pills, other procedures so fundamentally conflicting to certain religious beliefs, are not far away. Surgical abortions, condoms, male sterilization would be easy, and to the liberals, logical targets for mandates. One hopes the liberal Bishops who fell for the original Obamacare trap, do not once again fall for this ruse.

Incidentally and to set the record straight, it is not the availability of such items mandated by HHS over which this flap is about, it is the demand that they be paid for by those who object to them on deep and established principles of their faith.

State mandated health insurance coverage features are actually the root cause of variables in health care insurance costs from state to state, and precisely the reason interstate commerce for private health care insurance is banned by states with those mandates. In other words, if someone in Illinois does not like or need the health care coverage provisions specified by Illinois, that individual is not permitted to buy a more cost and feature appealing plan from one offered in say Indiana or Mississippi. It is also true that clear thinking solutions to solve our present high cost health care insurance, includes, among many ideas, free interstate commerce for such insurance between states, resulting in free market competition and inevitably lower overall costs.

The insidious aspect of Obamacare is the mandate itself, which surely leads to arbitrary and Czar like dictates that are offensive to segments of the population and grow cost. As the argument goes, a government that can mandate health insurance, can mandate anything, odious as it may be, and without the application of checks and balances aspects of separate but equal branches of government, the genius of the Constitution and its framers. It is for this reason that the entire Obamacare mess is headed to the Supreme Court. Elections have consequences as we have been reminded by Mr. Obama. Rather than roll the dice on the Supremes, let’s just change administrations in November and throw out the monstrosity of Obamacare!

Al Boese Lake Bluff, IL

Can the Patriot Post organization make and sell a poster of the "Right-Wing Extremists"?.

This president is a foreigner and a self-proclaimed Muslim who consistently demonstrates no respect for our Judeo-Christian heritage, our constitution, the family, free market economics and the integrity of our borders. His policies are essentially Marxist. He views religion and the constitution as obstacles that must be weakened, if not eliminated, in order to achieve his statist agenda.

One can only hope that this latest Obama debacle will make the people wise-up to this criminal assault on our freedoms.

JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF BHO VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION & TRYING TO BAN ALL RELIGIONS EXCEPT MUSLIM. THE MAN IS A DISGRACE: HE HAS NO MORAL SENSE

& IS DETERMINED TO TURN THE USA INTO A SOCIALIST, GODLESS STATE.

I REPEAT, WHY HASN'T THIS MENACE TO THE USA BEEN IMPEACHED?

"Compromise?" It's a variation on the Brezhnev doctrine. "What's ours is ours. What's yours is yours only if you can keep it."

I am confused. This provision for the religious institutions having to pay for "women's health care" is included in the "Obama Health Skare Bill." My understanding per the Constitution is that there is a separation of powers of the three branches of gov't. If, in fact, this is in the bill, does not this have to go back to Congress for amendment? If it is not in the bill, how does the Executive Branch create the case for religious groups to be compelled to participate. Can you see my confusion now? If either scenario is correct, was not the Constitution compromised? To me this seems like a case of "Constitutional Pornography."

God Help us all.

Krauthammer's comments re Obama and healthcare were perfect. Isn't America great! We have seen in the past week Southern Baptists in Houston laying on hands and praying for the success of Yankee Roman Catholic Rick Santorum.. I am compelled to remember JFK speaking with Southern Baptists in Houston in the early 60's. Then Charles Krauthammer and our good friends at the Patriot Post (I've been a reader for 9 years)sharply identify the real issues here. What is a church if its doctrines can be forcibly denied by government?. Likewise what is a government that would do such a thing.

Two concerns" 1) will the Catholic Church respond in keeping with its friends in the conservative movement (Patriot Post yeaah!)and bring to the table its deep and wide base of resources or 2) will the RCC cave to Sebelius (Catholic), Pelosi (Catholic), Biden (Catholic) et al. Cardinal-elect Dolan of the "capital city of the world" (JPII quote) needs to bring his Irish game face and open a can of wh-p-s on the Obama-ites. For this, this Catholic prays. Amen

The Obama supporters claim that many Catholic women use contraceptives so it shouldn't be a big deal for the Catholic Church to accept Obama's mandate and pay for contraceptives. It is a fact that all Catholics and all people sin some way or another. So, could that fact allow Obama to mandate that the Church change it's views on sin and force the Church to approve of or sanction all that is sin and evil . . . because many people commit those sins??? Wouldn't need any churches then . . . if it feels good and one wants to do it, it should be their "right" to do it. That would be a wild world . . . all the perverts and scum would love it.

His "compromise" is not being accepted by the Bishops at this time.

I believe he just LOST THE ELECTION. THANK YOU GOD.

Who cares about the "compromise". It's clear where he wants to go--that's enough for me. A "compromise" is nothing more than a rest--the hammer chipping away at our freedoms will swing again soon, with more caution. He underestimated the opposition and will find ways to further his agenda.

There is really no doubt that the decisions of this man are the decisions of the god he serves. He is attacking virtue and honor, which are foreign to him. The stand the people take, is one of cohesion. First, with our own honor and virtue, and sense of right, then spreading to our family, our neighbors, our communities, and our country as a whole, to create a structure he can't break. We cannot back down, or keep silent.

Obama was not appointed King of America, He has we defined and limited powers. He can only do what he is doing because we allow it, our represenative are negligent in not enforcing the constitutional limits on the POTUS. This whole thing stinks from top to bottom. What do those pretenders in our government think we will all do, just lay down and lick the boots that are treading upon us, our Freedom and GOD given rights?

"Well defined and limited"

Let us be clear on one fact, this is a Constitutional issue and all the ancilary statements(contraception, abortion et.al)are totaly non relevant.What the "community organizer" has done here is that he has stepped over the boundaries of RELIGIOUS FREEDOM that is GUARANTEED by the Constitution and he and his commissar sebelius have the gall to tell The Catholic Church what it MUST do even if the dictats go contrary to its'(the Catholic Church's) doctrine.

As far as this "compromise" is concerned, he insults my intelligence by even mentioning it, a response by that of a typical lying Chicago democrat.

Shoot the B@$T@RD.

How have we convinced this President that we have no ability to think, or see through his repeated attempts to turn this country on it's head? Maybe because enough of us did no thinking or investigating BEFORE ELECTING him President!

Will we move past the snappy suits, smiles, charm and singing, come November?; or are we doomed to another ruinous 4yrs ?. This crucial election will not be A NIGHT AT THE OSCARS allowing ourselves to be swept away by theatrics. This is our FUTURE. Our decisions need to be informed by hard FACTS.

That's the Muslim way. According to the Koran's teachings, A Muslim can deceive for the cause of their beleifs. Uh, Mr. Obama, most Americans are on to you bud.

I thought that a legislative act, if found wanting, was then referred back to the legislative body. I have not read Obama Care, and therefore, do not wish to say what he did is not allowed. However, my feeling is that he is again acting illeagally.

This is socialism at its best. Any way to go against the Constitution is acceptable to them. I hope the church doesn't fall for this ploy. Once you give him an inch he will want a mile.

As far as the Super Bowl half-time show disgrace, if the networks and NFL has two brains, they would have musical talent that can be trusted to put on a decent show, say country singers, etc. They deserve what they allow!! The rest of us just go get a snack and return when the "show" is over. That's what I did!!

Like everything else that he does, he has double talked, masked the real meaning of the mandate and hopes we all go along with it. Not anymore - I hope everyone realizes that he either can't or won't show his true colors.

I am confused. This provision for the religious institutions having to pay for "women's health care" is included in the "Obama Health Skare Bill." My understanding per the Constitution is that there is a separation of powers of the three branches of gov't. If, in fact, this is in the bill, does not this have to go back to Congress for amendment? If it is not in the bill, how does the Executive Branch create the case for religious groups to be compelled to participate. Can you see my confusion now? If either scenario is correct, was not the Constitution compromised? To me this seems like a case of "Constitutional Pornography."

God Help us all.

sirs,would you please look into a commercial that i viewed a week or so ago,it was for chantix a stop smoking ad.the first 10 or so seconds spoke the words obama support and then the commercial began i cant find it anymore nor can i find anything about it.i told my brother in n.y. last week and it was on down there.if you didnt listen closely it would slip by.im wondering how many ads like this are happening.

thank you jim savage maine

Obama ended up "compromised" with his abortion compromise. He is by far the least intelligent president we've ever had. His mind is filled with "isms", leaving no room for thought.

I'm making a new poster for my lawn: "Ignore reality - Vote Democrat"

Just Like ALL of OBAMA's so called "compromises". There is no compromise, only attacks, bullying and race baiting. Just like the 950 days without a budget from this so called genius. Then his cronies lie to deflect criticism. I do not want my tax dollars spent for free abortion, free contraceptives, free cell phones for deadbeats, Aid to Pakistan, bank bailouts, etc.! But what the heck, I am just a racist, according to my President and his men!

I do beleive that Kathleen Sebilus has sold her soul to the devil. I would like to know what power this man has over people? Can not all of you in government see what he is doing to our country? And you're letting him get away with it? Congress just handed him the purse strings, and are shirking their duties, plus, giving him authority to detain American citizens without a jury or trial indefinatly. I can tell you right now, We the people have awakened to all the lies and deception from all most of you in Washington and we will throw you out of office in November! I think that Obama should be impeached for his actions.

If our administration as well as ALL of us would cease to think of pregnancy as a "sickness" or "disease" we would not have the present problem. Pregnancy is the due process of givibg LIFE, not death.

This thought did not originate with me - but when I heard it I knew it was true. Let all of us begin to fear God and honor those who give life and welcome those who will be born.

Obama is not compromising. Mr. Obama evidently thinks Americans are stupid. Obama thinks we're all stupid. Who do you think pays for the insurance poicies that provide 'free' birth control, sterilizations and abortifacients to employeees? Why the very religious organizations doctrinakkt prohibited from paying these services in the first place. This is another game played by Mr. Obama's attack on the First Amendment continues.

Enough is enough. Obama should be gone and sooner than later.

President Obama's "compromise" is without merit. He and his administration just want to look as if they are being reasonable, while the church leaders are not. There is not truth or honor in him or what he's trying to do. It is all unconscienable and unconstitutional.

I am confused. This provision for the religious institutions having to pay for "women's health care" is included in the "Obama Health Skare Bill." My understanding per the Constitution is that there is a separation of powers of the three branches of gov't. If, in fact, this is in the bill, does not this have to go back to Congress for amendment? If it is not in the bill, how does the Executive Branch create the case for religious groups to be compelled to participate. Can you see my confusion now? If either scenario is correct, was not the Constitution compromised? To me this seems like a case of "Constitutional Pornography."

God Help us all.

He knew what he was doing with the contraceptive thing. He talks down to people, but what he doesn't realize he's the only moron in the room. He is an empty suited talker. All image, rhetoric and absolutely no substance. Your slick BS has worn thin Obama. Like the old saying, "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with B.S.

I believe that the insurance companies will just pass these additional costs back to the religious organizations through increased insurance costs, basically meaning that there really is no change in the President's original directive that religious organizations must pay for these things

OBOMA IS A MUSLIM..................IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK AND QUACKS LIKE A DUCK...........IT PROBABLY IS...................ONE MORE TERM AND WE'LL ALL BE HURTING..................I CAN'T UNDERSTAND PEOPLE WHO THINK HE IS GREAT.........HE'S SOCILST AND COMMIE..................THATS ALL

I am not a Roman Catholic, but my take on Obama's so-called compromise is the same as it is for everything else he tries to pull off: "Liar, liar, pants on fire." Just who the hell does he and his flunkie Sibelius think they are kidding? We have had his number from the get-go, and he and all his minions are frauds.

I am flabbergasted at the number of people that don't see the obvious violation of the freedom of religion clause and how similar things are to Hitler's rise... It was the Jews then. Now it is Catholics and soon all Religions. Too many can't see his absolute brilliance in his methods. Too many won't see until we are fighting in the streets what he has accomplished through his subversiveness and "czars" appointed without Senate approval.

Sadly enough, some people will be fooled by Obama's smoke and mirrors. I truly believe that HE believes that he can fool everyone with his bold face lies. Thanks to the Patriot Post and the many great Patriots out there spreading the truth (in a civil and dignified manner), the American people are going to see this regime crumble. And when it does I believe the true face of Obama will finally be seen by all!

As I see it, the main issue, by far, is with the very providing of the services, not simply that religious institutions (or their insurance companies, if one would suspend disbelief and accept Obama's dichotomy) be required to pay for them on behalf of their employees. In other words, whether these services are to be "free" of charge to the religious institutions is very secondary, at best.

There was no compromise. The requirement was rephrased to make it appear there was no mandate. More smoke and mirrors is all the Feds can come up with.

I still cannot believe the arrogance of our president!! He is without a doubt the most committed self important jerk we have ever had as our president. Everything he does and every decision he makes is against my conservative outlook and my values. I am 78 years old and have never in my life seen a man in this job such as this. I hope I live to see his defeat in Novermber 2012. He has broken most every promise he ever made and his statements in the past and the present, bear no resemblance to his actions.

I listened to obama when he was campaigning and didn't like his agenda. If everyone else had done the same, they would know that he never could be trusted.

Didn't the majority of polled Catholics vote FOR The Obamanation? If so, the Catholics helped vote him in, maybe they'll help vote him OUT. Catholic or not, we, as a nation, are sleeping in the bed we have made. Fourth Cycle of Discipline, coming up! Leviticus Ch 26

The rule that created the uproar has not changed at all, but was finalized as is. Friday evening, after a day of touting meaningful changes in the mandate, HHS issued a regulation finalizing the rule first issued in August 2011, “without change.” So religious employers dedicated to serving people of other faiths are still not exempt as “religious employers.” Indeed, the rule describes them as “non-exempt.”

Americans must be strong. This president is just wrong.

The whole concept is unconstitutional. The government has no business providing at our expense, or making us pay for, anybody's birth control. They need to work on the deficit!!!!!

It's a first. He kind of said he was wrong.

Tell Him To Shove It.

I just don't understand why the pretense of 'president' is still being played here, with this edict/compromise he's all but declared himself emperor of America, it's like his financial policies his so called 'jobs acts', why the charade? Call them for what they are, reparations, at what point do We the People stand up to this tyrant and his criminal enterprise known as the Democrat party and have his bony arse impeached?

Is the following a true video and if so, should it not be seen by every American?

this is hard to believe.

WILL THE REAL RACIST PLEASE STAND UP. MAYBE WE NEED TO START: "WHITE AMERICA TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY".

This should make your blood boil.

Subject: Obama Launches African Americans For Obama

If we were to announce the launching of Caucasian Americans for Anybody But Obama, I would be called a racist.

http://youtu.be/BdjoHA5ocwU

DID THE PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS SPEAK ONLY TO THE WhITE PEOPLE?

THIS GUY WANTS TO START A REVOLUTION IF HE ISN'T RE-ELECTED>

'Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone stands around re-loading.'

-- Thos. Jefferson

This is no compomise. His "dictate" to the insurance companies is a non-productive, go-no-where desperate act of stupidity. When the first insurance company stands up to him and Sebelius and tells them to go to hell, that they are not going to provide for his free health care at their expense, the whole house of cards will collapse. That will show this entire obamacare health insurance gimmick is unconstitutional. And there is nothing the government can do about it.

Regardless of what thinks he can or cannot do, he does not have the authority to tell a private organization or someone else to pay for something he wants. That just ain't going to happen. If he had that kind of authority, then we would call that government a dictatorship, kind of like Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. Didn't hear about anything like that on the news recently.

Indeed H.D. Obama is the classic narcissus. All thunder no lightening, all rhetorical and image and no substance. He's a half white moron. Finally found a way to express by contempt without being called a racist.

I strongly resent your extremely slanted presentation of the Republican presidential candidates. You have a right to push Rick Santorum if you wish. However, be aware that your unbalanced coverage will surely adversely affect your readership and the amount of financial support you receive in the future from those many of us who back Mitt Romney (or Newt Gingrich, for that matter).

A slightly-humorous illustration of this situation is contained in a "Fable" here:

http://liberty-morality-faith.blogspot.com/

I quoted from the Friday Digest, with credit and your link.

What's Next? Is he planning on making the insurance a branch of the federal government?

Is he planning on making the insurance industry a branch of the federal government? He acts like he owns them now!

WHEN A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CIRCUMVENTS THE CONSTITUTION FOR HIS PERSONAL AGENDA, HE NO LONGER DESERVES THE OFFICE OR RESPECT TH OFFICE DESERVES! IN MY EYES, MR OBAMA, SWORE AN OATH TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION AN HE LIED. I BELIEVE, IN HIS HEART, HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN, DOESN'T CARE TO BE ONE. HE SHOULD BE IMPEACHED AND SENT INTO EXILE, AND SENT OUT TO LIVE IN SOME SANDY OASIES IN THE MIDDLE OR FAR EAST!

As usual, President Obama has paid lip service based on public outcry, without ever changing his basic mandate. I've been a registered Democrat for my entire voting life and have never been so disgusted with the direction this party has taken this country.

We are missing the point in allowing the discussion to go down this track. It is not about whether the organization is characterized as "religious". Rather, it is whether the objection to the mandate is grounded in a religious belief. Constitutionally, the owner of Bob's Farm and Fleet in Brewton, Alabama has as legitimate an objection as a Southern Baptist as does the St.Francis Parish Day School in Boston, MA.

The Constitution protects religious beliefs of all Americans, whether held at the institutional or individual level. We should not let our government re-characterize our Constitutional rights for its political convenience.

This is not only a Catholic issue, it is an American issue. It is one that rightly deserves the outrage of all Americans, even the atheists, whose beliefs would be equally put at risk by this imperious administration.

God willing, it is through this lens of Constitutional review, if properly focused, that Obamacare and its mandates will fail.

Have you ever read "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen? – Three steps forward, one step back; then

watch the crowd gloat over the one or two steps back. That is Communist strategy.

I think the whole thing was planned to work exactly as it did. They've gotten what whey wanted, and Obama is now a hero instead of a heel. By this action, he didn't lose votes, likely he gained, especially preserving Roman Catholics as his avid supporters. I understand it is over 90%.

Despicable and disgusting are words that come to mind.

Mr. Obama is nothing more than a puppet of the special interest groups that animate and manipulate the Democrat Party. He is all about artfully contrived expedients, about the use of deceptive reasoning to support tactics that are roundly criticized when they are employed by others. Tactics that have been used by purveyors of tyranny throughout the ages. It’s either sing the company song, or stop singing altogether.

Justice may be blind, but it should not also be deaf and dumb. Justice is not served when the rule of law is shattered and the process used to shatter it is defended with plausible but fallacious reasoning and argumentation. But this seems to be the modus operandi of this regime. You know, it’s all about fairness.

What is really difficult to endure is Mr. Obama’s perpetual preening about what he WILL accomplish if he is rightfully reelected to serve as president. He can’t tout his accomplishments because they are widely disliked for their pernicious effects on our economy and well-being. His abysmal record leaves him with no reelection tactics save attacks on the Republicans’ failure to govern. Never mind that Democrats in the U.S. Senate have prevented any “progress” by the Republican House of Representatives while at the same time blaming them for this result.

Hope and Change indeed! I find myself hoping for change and praying it comes before our Constitution, and the limited-government it brought into existence, is totally destroyed.

Catholics! You are not the first to be thrown under the bus by this fraud of a "Christian"! No, first, he did the Jews by pressuring Israel to pull back to 1967 borders which are indefensible, and guarantees their eventual destruction, sooner as opposed to later. Even that, as bad as it was, does not compare to this latest attack. His "mandate" seeks to virtually kill the 1st Amendment of the Constitution, then after the firestorm, he tried to feed us more pablum puke under the guise of a compromise. It was no compromise! It was a feeble attempt at smoke and mirrors, and Americans need to reject it completely! The Catholic charity's simply need to say, "WE AIN'T DOING IT", PERIOD! This charlatin, snake oil commnist just needs to go away. He ABSOLUTELY CANNOT ASSUME ROOM TEMPERATURE SOON ENOUGH FOR ME". If something should happen to Obama, hey, I'm having a victory party. He is the poster child of evil! The devil's son! 666 !

There is no "moderate" intersection. The acts of this man in the People's House regarding the infliction of sanction for failure to comply with his edicts is contrary, in every respect, to the principles of those precious writings, the Constitution and allied documents. "Willing to compromise"? No, he is not. He is totally in error! The entire comment, act, whatever, is contrary to the precepts of this Republic. Along with most of what is perpetrated by the Socialist Democrats. When will it be "enough"?! Eighty plus years of Democrat Socialist antics must be stopped! November is too late, it should happen much sooner! Let's not impeach, lets arrest and imprison! There are plenty of grounds! Theft of public money would be a starter. He is using the People's money to continue his ceaseless electioneering. Nouveau riche, (no italics available) and there is a more pejorative term in the English lexicon.

Mr. obama thinks he is smarter than us, he knows whats best for us common people. We have a Godless man in the white house.

If this wannabe dictator were as smart as he thinks he is he would not have to issue a mandate then back down on it. Hopefully the rest of these United States will follow Georgia and remove him from the ballot for 2012.

There is no compromise, nothing changed. The insurance company pays claims before and after the so called compromise. It is simply a play on words, nothing changed, there was and is no compromise.

Obama is openly showing us how stupid he thinks the American people are, I hope we prove him wrong in November.

Obama's compromise is a reflection of the person. Flat, condescending, perfunctory, and pulls the wool over the eyes of the kool-aid drinkers. Just one more glaring example of his 'I am smarter than you' attitude. To anyone with an ounce of deducting capability his action is so transparent as to be laughable. This man, time and again, proves he is an American in name only. His actions, which are really what count, show his deep affection for socialist government and his total commitment to that end.

Hussein O. is a natural born tyrant from Kenya. He swore to uphold the Constitution but every step he takes is designed to tear it down. Why is he not impeached for breakingn the oath of office?

There is no compromise in BHO. What appears to be compromise is just smoke and mirrors to achieve his goals without appearing to be what he truly is, an idealogue.

Tragically, many cannot see this and will applaud his sensitivity. We are half-way down the slippery slope and accelerating by the day.

Backing into this so called compromise is Obama's attempt to quell a firestorm of protest. It will not work. This administration is simply tyrannical, there is no other word for it, and anyone who denies that fact is seriously delusional.

I cannot decide if he is really this dumb, or if he's just trying too hard to push his Islam beliefs and trying to overthrow our government. Even if the Catholic church does not have to pay for abortions and birth control; it will still violate their beliefs by providing the services. And, why load this on the backs of the insurance companies?

There is no "compromise" by Obama on the issue health care coverage for abortion and / or the prevention of pregnancy. He is still trying to dictate a treatment plan.

He has stepped far beyond the constitutional authority of the president to think that he can unilaterally dictate what type health care coverage employers or health insurnace companies must provide.

"I was feeling very sick about the direction the Republican nomination process was headed. Now with Rick Santorum rising, there is a chance we will have a real choice between an establishment Republican and a real conservative." --Ron

I agree with RON. If the Republicans force me to hold my nose in November and vote for the lesser of the evils, be advised that you can not be certain that I will pick romney over obama. Actually romney is starting to make obama look much better everyday. "DUMP the ROMP in 2012"

He continues to show his contempt for our Constituition and Bill of Rights and his egotism that his way is the only way. I believe this time he's bitten off more than he can chew..

Although Rick Santorum seems to be an honest delegate for the office of POUS there must have been a reason Pennsylvania voters voted him out of office after just one term. My hope is that we make Obama a one term president like we did with Carter.

My take is that the Catholic church has no room to talk about sex issues. I read somewhere that half of Catholics use contraceptives.

What is wrong with the use of contraceptives? There are more good reasons for their use than not.

What Compromise

Just Smoke and mirrors, and the assumption that

We The People are STUPID

Not a compromise it is A INSULT

Finally, Mr Obama has reached too far in his evasions of the Constition which he swore to defend and is now on the horns of a dilemma. He has two choices: refute the mandates or continue to hold his untenable position and lose the election. Many of those of all persuasions who voted for him 2008 will surely abandon him on this issue if he persists. They may have been misled then but now see him for what he is, a statist of the worst kind.

I pray this makes all those catholics that voted for Obama, wake up.

Terry Lee M.-- The issue at hand is not about the "use of contraceptives". It is about someone being forced to dispense and pay for them whose religious beliefs are opposed to this practice. Contraceptives are always readily available to anyone, and no one is opposing this. Learn what the issues are about!!

Hitlerian

Obama and his crowd fail on all fronts of morality, common sense and protecting our values. The twisting and lying to change our laws, distort our constitution and our traditional values never ends. The fool in his heart says there is no God. We have leadership that flies in the face of God's commandments, abortion, perversion and on an on. Psalm 9:15-17 sums it up. "THE HEATHEN ARE SUNK DOWN IN THE PIT THEY HAVE MADE, IN NET WHICH THEY HAD LAID, THEIR OWN FOOT TAKEN. THE LORD IS KNOWN BY THE JUDGEMENT HE EXCUTETH, THE WICKED SNARED BY THE WORK OF HIS OWN HANDS. THE WICKED WILL BE TURNED INTO HELL and ALL NATIONS THAT FORGET GOD." We the people are the cause of the destruction of our country by electing men and women that fit the description above, God is not to blame. By God's grace and our vote we can CHANGE our beloved country for another season. The acceptance of political correctness has held truth captive. Political correctness has perverted truth, God calls sin, sin and truth is still truth. His word still stands and is eternal. The path we are on leads to destruction, by turning back to the God of Israel and our Godly heritage we may have another season for our beloved country.

This is just more smoke and mirrors from obama. What happens if the churches and religious organizations decide to drop their insurance coverage? Who pays then? The answewr is simple, the taxpayer once again will be asked to pay for services that perhaps they don't approve of. The end to all of this will be when Roe V Wade is abolished which can't come soon enough.

II Chron. 7:14: If MY people, who are called by MY Name... It's not up to the government to change this country. It's up to us and OUR prayers and our turning from OUR wicked ways. God puts the people that he chooses in power. We need to just see to ourselves and not deserve these guys anymore.

WHAT OBAMA IS DOING IS WRONG. NO RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO VIOLATE ITS PRINCIPLES BY A LAW OR A PRESIDENT OR ANYONE ELSE.

Obama's not too bright, is he? His "concession" to the church is proof. Even if the hospitals, etc. won't have to pay for contraceptives, people with abiding belief in their church's tenets will be obligated to pay for them. So how will he now get around that?

Just another freedom erased from the Constitution... When are Americans going to wake up and REMOVE this imposter?

Compromise my foot...it's just more of his double talking, side-stepping, tongue wagging trickery. Just as with the whole of obamacare; it's filled with manure that no one wanted except for the mongrels that passed it. Recall the idiotic phrase; "We have to pass it to see what's in it."

What was in it was crap no moral, conscientous individual would put with...rationed care, end of life counseling/death panels, care to be given is reviewed by government bureau-crats-THEY decide what care an individual is to be given, if any, not the patient's doctor. This 'compromise' is NOT a compromise; as per usual with the occupyier of the Oval Office, it's a LIE. If his mouth is moving you know he's lying.

It is B.S.!

Lies lies, and more lies. This administration does not know how to tell the truth. They are only interested in tearing up our Beloved Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Obama, Holder, and every czar should be brought up on charges of tyranny.

There is no compromise when an electrocution is replaced with a firing squad.

The Democratic part is led by elites who believe all should come from the leaders ( them) and that we are all stupid. Obama truly believes that everyone will believe him as the msm does.

Will some please let him know "sir, you have no clothes"

Naked, and bereft of ideas that actually do work.

Obama's "compromise" to let the Church off the hook for having to provide "free" contraception is a sham. It isn't "free"; it costs the manufacturer to manufacture and distribute the product. Then it must be purchased by the supplier (Church). But now Obama thinks that it's OK to put the responsibility on the Church's insurance company. In the end, the insurance company will pass the cost on to the Church in higher premiums. And the Church still pays the premiums which means the Church still pays for the contraceptive. Obama must be STUPID to think that Americans are that stupid.

How about all of the other religions that have church owned hospitals that are opposed to any form of contraception?

You don't suppose Adolph Obama chose to only mention the Catholics because they represent the largest block of voters do you?

What compromise?

All I have heard or seen is so much smoke and mirrors. Just what to expect from this current administration.

Why hasn't our Congress done it's job and impeached this Marxist. Never in a million years did I think I would ever see a man show as much criminal arrogance and contempt for the rule of law and our Constitution. Not once or twice but now it has gotten to be on a daily basic. He isn't president, he's a Marxist dictator.

Congress by either supporting his lawlessness or turning a cowardly blind eye have become his enablers. Speaker of the House publicly spoke out asking the courts to stop his abuse of power. That tells me the Speaker of the House don't know squat of the Constitution.

I sent out letters to both my Senators listing 25 impeachable offenses by this Marxist each item also gave the law broken or the article of the Constitution violated. Jon Kyl wrote me back saying the list was only my opinion. MY OPINION!? Has this nation gone mad. I wrote him back telling him to do his job and stand up.

That was 2 months ago and I have yet to hear back. I and my family have quit the Republican Party over this none action by the party I once respected.

There are 73 Congressmen that are members of the American Socialist Party. Yet when running against these Socialist not once has the Republican Party made public these Socialist treason. The two parties are like two hands. One slaps you around and the other gives you a cheap band-aid that fall off as soon as you put it on. So you cheer and support the hand with the band-aid. But both hands are of the same mind.

When any elected official violates his oath we as Americans have the right and the duty to pull these traitors from office and appoint citizen groups to act as jury and try them for their crimes.

Still believing in the documents that founded this nation and speaking out on it's demise puts you on a list as a home grown radical terrorist. Or what some would term a patriot. Our Constitution, with it's Bill of Rights has been made null and void. That's not the blurred visions of a radical terrorist. It a cold hard fact.

If we allow this to stand, how long will it be before other First Amendment rights and other freedoms will be weakened or obliterated. NOW is the time for all, regardless of religious beliefs, to stand firmly against and further blatant and unconstitutional government intrusions into our lives - - now, before it's too late.

As with all the atrocities this president has committed this one too will be ignored and forgotten and will not hurt his chances for re-election one bit. The women sitting in church on Sunday might shake their fists in the air and condemn Obama for his insensitivity to their religion and the first ammendment but when they're alone in the voting booth they will pull the lever for the man who paid for the birth control pills in their purse.

Can you expect anything less from the man who sees himself as the supreme ruler? In order to achieve that lofty role he MUST destroy religion.

Obama - Compromise, really and being used in the same sentence, someone needs to stop drinking the kool-aide because those two words just don't go together. LOL 2012 HE MUST GO...

This is a power play from the President. He is not "retreating from", he is "advancing to" his stated goal! He is not "walking back" but "running toward" his complete governmental take-over of our minds and principles.

This is certainly no 'compromise'. Effectively it allow government to determine what services can be considered religious and what is not. This sort of stunt was used in Quebec in the 1960's and 1970's to bring about state run healthcare. This only open the door to federally administered hospitals.

Obama's compromise?

Sorry, but I don't have a "take" on Obama's compromise. I don't at all care what it is because I object to making any compromise.

As I've said before in this column, as a matter of principle, if you repeatedly compromise with a crook, you will become crooked. Other commenters herein have chimed in by stating the old axiom that if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.

My "crook and crooked" comment doesn't mean that I'm calling Obama a crook. I don't have to do that, for he speaks for himself. Anyone remember Reagan railing about the federal tax code and slamming a giant, representative stack of tax forms down onto a table? I bet that if some group of dedicated persons set about to compile a list, with details, of all the crooked transgressions committed by Obama and the Democrats, say, beginning back when Pelosi and Reid came to power for the last two years of Bush's term, that list would rival our tax code in size. Like I said, Obama speaks for himself with all his skulduggery.

I object to compromise with Liberals. Compromise is not success, and it's not progress. Here's a short list of what Liberals stand for:

1. high taxes.

2. government regulation of the private sector economy.

3. government control of education, and now health care.

4. government support of union membership and dues mandates, to the detriment of the free-market-based private sector.

5. and now, evidently, the intent for government to regulate religion.

That's enough of a list to illustrate the point. None of these liberal schemes promote freedom and progress. They are ulterior motives designed to codify everyone's behavior and to usurp freedom. To compromise with those who push for these schemes, is to adopt portions of these schemes and codify those portions into society. Each time we compromise like this, we accept more of the deleterious characteristics of these destructive and immoral liberal schemes.

Compromise with liberalism should not be considered an objective, rather, it indicates our failure.

I think we have the most hypocritical,untruthful,misleading, narcissistic person one can possibly imagine occupying the highest office of our land, who must be removed! Does he really think we believe anything he says, especially that he is protecting the religious rights of the Catholics and ALL Bible believing American??

Jean

Deception and lies are his calling. Depriving the citizens of freedom and liberty in order that they exist as he sees fit is his goal. A great shame to all.

I find it hard to believe that the President and his advisors are not smart enough to predict public opinion relating to their dictates. We the people are smart enough to see through these dicta and are able to mount a concerted effort to prevent enforcement. If you really want to be re-elected, then listen to the concerns of "we the people".

WE HAVE TO GET RID OF THAT SATAN ANTICHRIST BULLY ARROGANT STUPID SELFISH FAT-HEADED MISFIT ASAP THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS HERE LONG---- BEFORE HIM & WILL BE LONG AFTER HE GAVE A FEW HUNDRED $'S TO CHARITY WHO DOES HE THINK WILL PICK UP THE TAB IF THE CHURCH GIVES UP ALL ITS CHARITIES I SEE HE HADS ALREADY "PUNISHED" THE BISHOP BY WITHHOLDING A GRANT FROM THEM DOES THE BIRDBRAINED NUT NOT REMEMBER JUST WHO PAYS LARGE AMOUNTS IN TAXES-INCLUDING HIS UNWORTHY SALARY GET RID OF HIM ASAP - LIKE NOW THIS IS A CHRISTIAN NATION SO GOD BLESS AMERICA & OUR MILITARY WHO ARE PROTECTING THIS A--

Mr. Obama's attempt to foist upon us (I refer to all of the People, not just to members of the church of Rome in the United States) a "compromise" in the contraceptive mandate debacle only underscores the moral nescience of his administration. It is not possible to sidestep a moral principle with an accounting gimmick.

Obama does not know Thomas Jefferson. And he is ignorant of the natural law and moral good or evil

I'm a staunch, PRACTICING Catholic and if ANYBODY claims they're Catholic and don't believe every form of contraception is wrong then they are a moron and NOT Catholic. It's a basic tenet of faith. Quit giving Catholism a bad name. Also, the Church should shut down every hospital, clinic, charity, and orphanage for a week and put a sign up on the doors saying, "Compliments of Mr. Obama."

I'm sure, as I know every other True, Traditional, Patriotic, Christian, American citizen is, that we ALL wish Obama's mother would have had Birthcontrol pills or access to an abortion clinic when she was stagnate with this spawn from Hell! Late Term Abortion would have been the correct procedure for this bum!

P.S.

I'm sorry if I Sugar Coat my true feelings about this Incompetent shill, but I'm trying to do better.

J.J.B.Jr.(USN.RET.)

Maryland.

And where the Hell is Our Pope???

How about you speak up about this your Popeyness???

And quit hiding behind those robes!!!

J.J.B.Jr.(USN.RET.)

Most of us in America know that nothing is free from an insurnace company. Every single cost doen to the Staples, rubber band and toilet tissue at the insurance companies is spread across its customer Base....aka US.....ha preamble to USA

I am stunned by all of the attention that MIA is getting over her "finger malfunction" when the real issue is the continued push of sexualization of women, idol worship, and a whole show filled with symbolism of the occult. The presentation of the Lombardi Trophy after the game was just as sick a spectacle. Those men literally bowed down and worshipped the "golden calf" in that trophy.

A little middle finger incident, not the big story here.

It would be a dire mistake to underestimate the intelligence of this president and his "associates" The are smart; they know exactly what they are doing; their plans have long been in place, and they are totally committed to their purposes, which is to bring down America from its excetional status and transform it into a communist-socialist-marxist state - under sharia law comes later.

Our president is arrogantly confident of his success because he is counting 1)on more than half of Americans to be kept uninformed and gullible through left controlled media; and 2) in such an ignorant state, American's have lost their will to fight against them.

Joining their game of name-calling only furthers their cause. Being informed and stepping up, standing up to be counted, and speaking out the truth is this president's worst enemy.

Indeed, long may Freedom reign in America! If we want to keep it, masses of Americans must be willing to fight for it and show up in force unabashedly armed with the truth!

I'm with the editors note. Brilliant, check and mate.

This brings up an unsavory question. Rick Santorum has repeatedly stated all birth control is wrong. Now he is placing his religious values on me. This is where I draw the line. We can say one is bad as in Obama but in reality, which is worse?

RE: Hamilton, I'm with you

The Obama Administration is overtly and agressively anti-Christian. Make no mistake, they view Christians - "clinging to their Bibles" - as their enemy, and this is not new.

Recent history clearly shows the terrible affect that the weakening of Christianity has had on our society. Compare our society in the 1950s to today. There is more divorce, less marriage, lower morals, more crime, more drug abuse, more alcohol abuse, more fatherless households, more poverty, less effective schools, more gangs, more men in prison, etc. This list barely scratches the surface. This is merely the earthly toll and the far greater toll is the savaging of souls.

It is time for Revival- the story is timeless and ageless - for it is only through repentance and seeking Christ that we have hope.

Doe's Obama really think the majority of Americans are really that stupid!

Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact they Obama does not have the authority to make either of these requirements.

Some of my ancestors were French Hugenots, who came here to escape religious persecution, and to be able to worship freely without government intervention.... and here we are, with a president who swore to protect the Constitution of the United States of America during his inauguration. How did we get to this point?

More of the same from the imposter-in-chief. Maybe he's right about one thing. The takers love everything he says, even if he tramples on the constitution. Nothing has changed except the wording of the mandate.

There is a fine weekly blog called American News Commentary that is superbly written from a reliably conservative Christian, i.e. evangelical, perspective:American_news_2008@yahoo.com. This is one that deserves a wider audience and I thought you might like to know about it and either comment on it or include it as a "must read" item. Please take a look at the blog. I know the editor would deeply appreciate having greater exposure and in my judgment ANC is a truly worthwhile publication that complements your own work. I am a longtime friend of the editor and an avid, appreciative reader of ANC. Thanks for your consideration.

Yes, Bryan, I believe Obama is counting on that many Americans being uninformed, misled and, some, stupid! However, one-to-one contacts across the nation, informing the uninformed can have powerful results!

This is Obama's first step to ethnic cleansing ..

diminshing the births of caucasians.

Unfortunately, sufficient numbers of Americans really ARE that stupid. That's how the man got elected in the first place.

To quote an expression often used in math textbooks "It is intuitively obvious to the casual observer" that in this case the benevolence of the insurance companies will not prevail and the costs will indeed be paid by the policy holders or their would be no insurance company or policy holders.

Everything Obama does is political.He backed off because of how people he angered.Many times the people of this country have short memories concerning what politicians do. i doubt that 65 million Roman Catholics will forget the President's agenda by election day.