Just as American Catholic bishops were volunteering to help President Obama—by handling the thousands of children from Central America who are entering the US illegally—the White House has announced that the President doesn’t want help from the Catholic Church.
How else should we interpret the peremptory executive order with which Obama cut off federal contracts for any organizations that discriminate against homosexual or “transgendered” persons. This executive order is not aimed solely at the Catholic Church; many others will lose federal contracts. But perhaps the “unprecedented and extreme” presidential action will help awaken the American hierarchy to the fact that this administration is not—to put it mildly—a reliable partner.
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