Obama Mandate 'Compromise'

Obama's statement on the alleged compromise to allegedly exempt religious employers from paying for treatments against their principles was truly an embarrassment.

Obama, as he stood at the podium and read his remarks off paper rather than his teleprompters, could not have looked more untrustworthy. He was a case study in "how to spot a liar."

The tyrant Obama stood there, allegedly granting dispensation.

Bottom line: The alleged compromise is a joke. Even Obama's Leftist media mouthpieces admit that the alleged exemption is no exemption at all. His accounting games are so sleazy.

Obama had the audacity to claim he was respecting Catholics and the Church in his statement to the American people.

He pandered. He scolded. He lied.

His alleged retreat is really no compromise.

Tyrant Obama has ruled the religious employer won't have to pay for contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients. Instead, he will force the evil insurance companies to pay the bill.

Really?

And... how will that keep religious employers from funding what they find morally objectionable?

Rep. Chris Smith nails it:

The plan, touted as a concession to freedom of religion and conscience, was immediately denounced by pro-life Rep. Chris Smith. “The so-called new policy is the discredited old policy, dressed up to look like something else,. said Smith. .It remains a serious violation of religious freedom. Only the most naï or gullible would accept this as a change in policy.”

“The White House Fact Sheet is riddled with doublespeak and contradiction,” Smith continued. “It states, for example, that religious employers ‘will not’ have to pay for abortion pills, sterilization and contraception, but their ‘insurance companies’ will. Who pays for the insurance policy? The religious employer.”

Bill Wilson writes:

"The White House merely wants the religious institutions to pretend with them they are not funding this coverage, when the reality is they will be. This is unconscionable. Now the President is attempting to get religious institutions to be complicit in this lie, forcing his rule and will upon them. This is wrong and it must be rescinded immediately.

"The White House is claiming it will be paid for by the insurance companies themselves. But since the employees will not have to pay an additional premium for that coverage nor the religious-affiliated employers given a discount on their premiums to offset the costs, and the monies under the plans are fungible, the net effect will be that the religious institutions that are paying the premiums will still be paying for the contraceptives.

"As a result, it remains a violation of the First Amendment and an affront to religious liberty."

Obama's grand scheme of this alleged retreat is an insult to people of faith. It's an insult to all Americans.