Last week the Obama administration staged an Obamacare rally in the Rose Garden of the White House. The president and his team celebrated a mysterious “7.1 million” sign-ups, or registrants, or enrollees, or something or other. The precise make up of these individuals and how exactly they found themselves among this number is an arcane unknown. Nonetheless, right on cue, the partisan crowd rounded up for the ceremony roared in applause when the president sounded the magic number: 7.1 million.
What should Catholics make of this? The Little Sisters of the Poor, no doubt, find no comfort or saving grace in the exalted “7.1 million.” They’re still being forced to support services they will not use, that violate their conscience, and that their Church deems intrinsically evil.
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