NEW YORK (AP) — New York Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan is suing the Obama administration, but he’s inviting President Barack Obama to dinner anyway.
Dolan has asked both Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney to attend the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation charity dinner on Oct. 18, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York said Tuesday.
Romney has accepted. The Obama campaign hasn’t said publicly whether the president will attend, but Dolan’s spokesman, Joseph Zwilling, said Obama has accepted, too.
The Archdiocese of New York is among more than 40 Catholic organizations, charities and schools that are suing over Obama’s mandate that employers provide health insurance that covers birth control. Evangelical, Jewish and other religious leaders have joined U.S. bishops in pressing for a broader religious exemption, including for faith-affiliated hospitals, colleges and social service groups.
As the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Dolan has said the White House policy is “strangling” the church. Obama has offered an accommodation, but Catholic leaders and others have said the changes don’t go far enough.
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Obama is a lie
Why is Cardinal Dolan inviting the worst enemy of this nation and of Jesus Christ/Catholic Church to a dinner? Kathleen Sebelius, the head of the Health and Human Services, is the one who told obozo to send the mandate to the Catholic Bishops in America ordering them to pay for child-killing. Now, Cardinal Dolan wants to invite the ‘enemy’ to a charity dinner. Isn’t this another way of playing footsies with the ‘enemy?’
Keep your friends close and your enemies Closer. The act of kindness throws an enemy off balance. Two things I have learned through life.
Great Advice!
Don’t waste time setting a place at the table for the dog “Broken-back Obama”. Set a dog-bowl on the ground, where he can eat his dog food comfortably.
This Cardinal is out of his mind. He is way out of his league. Romney has no business sitting down with this imposter in the WH. Would you sit down to dinner with a viper? Why has this Cardinal decided to do this? I think he has lost his mind. If Romney accepts this invitation to a provocation, then he is out of his mind also.
Dictator Obama or no one else has the rights to force a REAL Church to violate it’s lawful rules!
Yep. After quitting time we’re just a bunch of pals. This is utter nonsense. Dolan is, excuse my Latin, an asshole.
jhmdeuce, let me explain your mistake to U! When U formed your opinion of Cardinal Dolan you were looking at yourself in a Mirror! It’s ASS HOLES like you that never look or want to try to help with a problem and it’s Idiots who think like you that help get Obama elected,U ASS HOLE! Oh and I don’t need Latin to describe an ASS HOLE like U!