Romney ad: Obama waging ‘war on religion’

[cbayer]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/romney-obama-waging-war-on-religion/2012/08/09/192c4e02-e213-11e1-a25e-15067bb31849_blog.html

Posted by Rachel Weiner at 08:04 AM ET, 08/09/2012

Mitt Romney makes an appeal to the Catholic vote with his latest ad, moving away from the economy to talk about health care and contraception.

President Obama has touted newly expanded contraception coverage in ads aimed at women. Now Romney is using the expanded coverage to say the president declared a “war on religion.”

The presumptive Republican nominee’s ad features both former Polish president Lech Walesa and Pope John Paul II — a clear play for the Catholic (and Polish) vote.

“Who shares your values?” the narrator asks. “President Obama used his health care plan to declare war on religion, forcing religious institutions to go against their faith.”

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[Blue Meany]

1. Now that he has raised the issue of religion, we are free to talk about his Mormon beliefs and his

role in the church (he was a Bishop, after all) and how they will affect his leadership.

[cbayer]

2. The Obama campaign said early on that they were not going to do that.

I'm not sure where they will go with it now, but I think they are better off taking the high road on this.

[democrat_patriot]

3. Agreed. Religious companies should not have the right to deny anything. Let the people choose.

More like Romney's War On Freedom.

[HockeyMom]

5. Keep hammering Republican War on Women

Everything I have read lately shows Obama with very significant lead among women, including in the swing states.

Religion? How many Catholic women use contraceptives? The church last their battle on that 40 years ago.

[cbayer]

7. Agree. Romney seems to be working for us these days.

[Lucy Goosey]

4. So I guess Romneycare was a war on religion, too?

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/08/09/663091/was-romneycare-a-war-on-religion/

Was Romneycare A War On Religion?
As governor, Romney greatly expanded access publicly-financed contraception through his 2006 health care reform law. The state’s Commonwealth Care, established under Romneycare, offers subsidized, low or no-cost insurance to low-income residents and provides primary and preventive care that includes “family planning services” and prescription contraceptives. In 2005, Romney also “signed a bill that could expand the number of people who get family-planning services, including the morning-after pill” and asked the Department of Health and Human Services to require Catholic hospitals to issue the morning after pill to rape victims.

In fact, the Obamacare rule Romney is now characterizing as an affront to religious liberties is very similar to a 2002 state law he tacitly supported. Like more than two dozen states across the country, Massachusetts required insurers that provide outpatient benefits to cover hormone replacement therapy and all FDA-approved contraceptive methods — well before Obamacare became law. The Massachusetts rule exempts “an employer that is a church or qualified church-controlled organization” from the mandate, but prohibits institutions such as hospitals, universities, and nursing homes from deny their employees birth control coverage.

I'm shocked (shocked!) to discover that Mitt is a lying hypocrite on this issue.

[cbayer]

6. Oh, Lucy. Everyone knows that anything Romney did

er, yesterday.....

does not count today!

[pinto]

8. Don't let facts get in the way of a soundbite Mitt...