More on the Catholic health Association

I apologize for filling my blog up with boring news, but this is being ignored in the mainstream media, and has huge implications for freedom of religion for the US.

Whispers in the Loggia Blog on why the CHA "changed it's mind" after reading the small print of the Obamacare orders.

"The exemption in the final rule is narrower than any conscience clause ever enacted in federal law and reflects an unacceptable change in federal policy regarding religious beliefs."

The Anchoress has more on the political manipulation that tried to use the CHA to appear to "back the compromise before anyone in that organization had read or studied the document. Well, they members have read it and forced the PC nun in charge to admit the organization didn't agree with her.

Recall that Sister Keehan’s initial approval of the “accommodation”, like Dionne’s, was released via the White House religion press portal almost simultaneously with the WH announcement; it gave enormous political cover to the president, and helped him to divide a church that had — quickly and uncharacteristically — united against the HHS Mandate. Now, she’s walking it back.
That’s why this is a big deal. CHA represents over 600 Catholic hospitals and hundreds of nursing and rehab facilities; that’s a lot of Catholic energy to be out of agreement with the US Bishops. Perhaps they considered the recent (largely media-ignored) lawsuits filed against the Obama administration in 12 jurisdictions by 43 Catholic entities (including Notre Dame University), and began to consider the HHS enterprise a loser. Hard to tell.

I suspect a similar result would come if all the nuns whose "leaders" are dissing the Vatican could vote on it too.