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On ‘Compromise’

Lawyer Ed Mechmann writes:

We’re talking now with the Administration and their mandate that all employers, including Catholic institutions, will be forced to offer their employees health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraception — free of charge.

Having inadvertently dragged the Church into electoral year politics, the Administration has now started talking about “compromise” to take some of the heat off.  To most normal people, the word “compromise” means that people sit down, talk to each other as equals, and try to work out something that will respect each other’s beliefs and values.  An online dictionary defines it as “a settlement of differences by mutual concessions”.

But the Administration seems to think that the word means “surrender your values, be quiet, and do what we tell you”.

There is much more detail here — it is worth reading and passing on. 

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purusha.
   02/09/12 15:57

It's funny how Republicans can't figure out if Obama is too stupid to have graduated from high school, or a scheming conspirator craftily controlling the world.

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SDN
   02/09/12 17:56

K-Lo, Obama learned about this kind of compromise in Indonesia as a boy. Muslims refer to it as a hudna: an agreement with unbelievers that will only be kept until the Dar al-Islam shall find it convenient to break it.

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