Catholics and Jews Beware

The Obama administration has been chock full of all sorts of hidden nuggets which are aimed at sowing seeds contrary to understood American principles, but none is more egregious than his treatment of Catholics and Jews. It is disgraceful, and those few voices in the wilderness that are attempting to call him out on what he is doing are either ignored or scoffed. The media seems blind to the obvious which leads me to believe they either approve or are driving an agenda based on success of the first black President rather than good government.

Americans still don’t understand how Obamacare works. Its dictates are stringent, and will cause substantial pain to employees, employers and those in groups who enjoy good health care benefits. Included in those folks are groups that are Obama supporters. In order to placate these groups who will be unhappy with Obamacare once implemented, Obama has reserved the power to exempt these groups, particularly his friends, from compliance with Obamacare. When it was being shoved through Congress, he garnered support from the Catholic Church by promising it would receive exemptions for heatlh care policies offered by its outreach organizations such as Catholic schools, hospitals, and charities as relates to insurance paid abortions and contraception, both sins in the eyes of the church.

This past year, he reneged on his promise. His HHS Secretary redefined religion by saying that unless a religious organization is run by members, for members, primarily employing only members of that religion, then that part of the religious organization does not get religious rights freedoms and must comply with Obamacare dictates. Then he refused to give the Catholic Church the promised exemption. He stuck it to them. The Catholic Church is now required to provide health care insurance that includes abortions and contraception to employees of its hospitals, schools, and charities. He lied to them to get what he wanted. Anyone who minces words or attempts to justify what the President and his minions did is a fool.

If this definition of religion is allowed to stand, you will see other problems not only in terms of health care, but right into the very core of religious operations outside of regular worship. This applies not only to Catholics, but to any religious based organization if it employs or services folks outside of that religion. This is dangerous. Catholics who believe in the operation of Catholic schools and hospitals and nursing home and charities and universities should beware.  The very essence of their operations is at stake. 

The Jews have another issue. Notwithstanding whatever religion President Obama happens to be, he has a different world view than we are used to. As in all things Obama, don’t look at what he says, look at what he does. His actions show that he is downgrading the relationship between Israel and the United States. He has made the fundamental determination that there are infinitely more Muslims in the world than Jews, and America hitched its wagon to the wrong Mideast country over the past fifty-sixty years. No matter what he says about the strong relationship between the United States and Israel, his actions indicate something else is going on, and it has yet to be determined what that is.

This is not a new concept in American foreign relations. There have always been a small number of foreign policy experts who have said that the American relationship with the Islamic world is much more important than with Israel. The benefit to the United States was small from the Israeli alliance. During the cold war, however, it gave the United States a strong military base of operation in the Mediterranean against the Soviets. That need is now gone.

The problem is that Obama’s policy of appeasement and apology to the Islamic nations is falling on deaf ears as the radicals in these countries used the United States to ascend to power, and now are doing to Obama what he did to the Catholics. Sorry Charlie. Talk to you later. This is dangerous stuff. Apologizing and indicating weakness to dictators is the path to stumbling into war. A misinterpreted signal of weakness from the United States government can spark consequences. Just ask Kuwait.

Iran says it wants to blow Israel off the face of the earth. It is rapidly developing nuclear weapons. Pakistan already has them. It is a tinder box. One misstep, Israel is gone. If they think even for one second that the United States would not react with equal force in retaliation, the radicals will act and deal with “sanctions” later. After Obama’s appearance at the United Nations and his brushing off the Israeli Prime Minister…the signals are mixed and dangerous.

This election, Catholics…be aware of your principles of faith and conscience. Jews…just be careful.  President Obama has an engaging smile and easy manner. This election look behind it.  There are obviously other issues that also influence your vote.  Maybe priorities need to be rearranged this time.