Well, thank goodness I'm not a Catholic, or she'd have me out of a job.
From this source:
How can a Massachusetts Senate candidate possibly offend 39 percent of voters in her state? If it's Democrat Attorney General Martha Coakley, she would tell devout Catholics not to bother working in an emergency room (H/T Jim Hoft - Big Government). In the audio clip below, Ms. Coakley chokes on a question from radio host Ken Pittman referring to the conscience clause. Under the conscience clause, workers in health-care environments ranging from doctors to maintenance men can refuse to offer services, information, or advice to patients on issues like contraception, blood transfusions, etc..if the workers are morally against it. Here is how Ms. Coakley handled the matter. (audio and transcript below):
Ken Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin. ah you don’t want to do that.
Martha Coakley: No we have a separation of church and state Ken, lets be clear.
Ken Pittman: In the emergency room you still have your religious freedom.
Martha Coakley: (……uh, eh…um..) The law says that people are allowed to have that. You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.
Here is the audio from the link above.
Keep it up, leftards. You're going to had that seat over on a silver platter.
16 comments:
I saw this and obviously it caught my attention.
Funny that it's religious freedom they are always wiling to sacrifice first.
Under the conscience clause we would not be required to participate in an abortion. It would never dawn on them to take away woman's right to an abortion but they would not hesitate to trample on my right to abstain from it in the name of religious freedom.
This woman actually seems just enough of an idiot to be right at home in the current Senate.
Don't count your chickens until they're in the fryer.
LOL! You can have ALL the religious freedom you want, just so long as you NEVER exercise it in public!
I'm not sure that's what the "free exercise" clause of the Constitution says, but who am I to argue with an august member of an elite Congressional body like Ms. Croakley? I'm only a mere citizen of what was once a republic...
Yeah and Brown is a knuckle dragger. It all comes out in the wash.
This vote is about the health care bill, pure and simple. Massachusetts has a system that insures citizens in the state and provides a public option.
Now we are also expected to pay for fly over country slackers in Nebraska. Folks here are really steamed and want this bill stopped. Obama is being seen as the stealth corporatists that many knew he was.
The abortion talk is standard in any Massachusetts campaign and sways nobody.
I know that if they pass this healthcare bill without a conscience clause that we're going to be in even BIGGER trouble when it comes to finding medical care. The Catholics will NOT do abortions in their hospitals. They'll close down. Many doctors will walk away as well and refuse to do ER care.
I read an article about this several months ago.
Just to clarify, it won't just be Catholics that will walk. I know several Jewish and Christian doctors will also walk, along with some non-religious who just feel it's wrong.
Chuck: I could not participate in one. If I were compelled, I would quit on the spot.
You are correct; it is the religious aspect that must go first.
Beamish: No, I wouldn't do that, but if the left keeps this up, I don't see how they win unless the senile "I've been a Democrat since JFK" vote turns out in force.
FJ: EXACTLY. Unless you are a Muslim, you don't dare show your faith in public!
Ducky: We shall see...
Krystal: Interesting point. I used to work in a Catholic hospital, and I hadn't even considered that.
You are right, plenty would walk, and not just docs.
heard this on talk radio Brooke..can u believe this!!!
I love it when politicians show themselves to be the idiots that they are.
She sure is. This clause is in the Federal "health care" bill which is just another reason to defeat it.
Jen, and they're showing it more and more often...
It is time to employ the beamish method - time for all of U.S. to become Amish.
LOL Nanc.
But then, I couldn't use the world's most advanced information retrieval system to find out Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
Well, the Democratic Party screwed up supporting Joe Biden Jr. in this election.
Coakley cant open her mouth without stuffing her foot in it...
Fauntleroy? Really...?
Until yesterday I used to refer to them as Massholes. Today I have a new found respect.
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