Catholics Need Not Apply

In reading the comments in the NY Times regarding the Administration accommodation to the HHS mandate, I am amazed by the near abject hatred on the part of those writing towards Catholics. I wonder if they ever read what they write. They make the Brits seem to be an accommodating and accepting group. We may all be safer with the Penal Laws, at least we knew where we stood.

This issue can be divided simply: (i) for the Individualists, the individual makes choices and Government should not mandate except when life and limb are at stake, ie murder, (ii) the Progressives, who firmly believe that there exists a select group to which they belong this group has been granted truth by some non-Kantian manner and that those not so endowed must obey them, since they lack the gift of truth. Fundamentally it is hubris, a group believes that they are correct and all must follow and the individual be damned.

This exercise was a brilliant move by the Administration, they feint to the left, then "accommodate" to the right, get what they want, and move on. A classic Russian chess move. But it has drawn out the vitriol of the left against Catholics. What group is next. Perhaps some of the left leaning bishops will see that they have been in error, so much for guitars in church!

As Camus and Dostoevsky said, we all die alone.