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Georgia is one of the states that has had this same law since 1999. A good editorial comment on the faux outrage:

Yes, the law was originally passed back in 1999, four years before Republicans gained control of Georgia’s government. But Republicans have had ten years in which to change the law if they thought there was a problem with it; yet, it has remained intact through ten Republican-controlled legislative sessions.

And with no stated exceptions, this law applies to mega-employer Saint Joseph’s Hospital, a 410-bed acute care facility in Atlanta with several subsidiaries including an employed physician’s group and research facilities, with a total of 3,000 employees. And the law also applies to Saint Mary’s Hospital, a 196-bed acute care hospital in Athens, GA.

Both hospitals are members of the Catholic Health East system.

Yet not once have we heard a pastor, preacher, priest or politician utter one peep of an objection to the law.

No pronouncement from Newt Gingrich that Governor Nathan Deal or the Georgia legislature has “declared war on religion.”

No one-woman crusade by Georgia Diva Karen Handel to reverse this law during the three years from 2007 to 2010 that she served as Secretary of State under the gold dome with the Republican-controlled legislature.

No fit-pitching about “attacks on our religious freedoms” by Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory.

Nothing. Nada.

Quite as a church mouse.

Until President Obama does the same thing.

And quite frankly, I would be much more impressed with the Catholic Church’s conscientious objection to Catholic employers having to provide an insurance policy which covers contraception, if the Catholic Church had collectively been this upset; expended this much energy; expended these many resources; and focused this much attention on rooting out and ending pedophilia among the priesthood. There are countless thousands of lives which have been irreparably destroyed because the Vatican and church leadership in America chose to protect, hide and cover-up instead of immediately rooting out this evil from the Church. They were more concerned with the Church’s image and trying to do damage control than they were with the many thousands of lives which have been destroyed.

So when they let evil like that fester in the Church and then go all out on a massive campaign to castigate President Obama based on a gnat-straining notion that regulating a woman’s ovulation cycle is murder while raising no objection to policies paying for erection-giving man drugs, I have no sympathy whatsoever for their argument.

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