Surprise! No, not really.
Via Washington Examiner:
Two days after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took steps to implement the contraception mandate, President Obama went with his wife and one daughter to a parish in the Episcopal Church, which supports the HHS mandate.
The president, Michelle, and Sasha Obama, who do not often attend church publicly, walked this morning to the nearby “St. John’s Church, which is Episcopalian,” the pool reporter noted. “The service was traditional Episcopal; at 11:57 a.m. the Obamas rose in turn with the other churchgoers and walked up to the altar where they all knelt together and received communion.”
St. John’s Church has been called “the Church of the Presidents” due to its proximity to the White House, but the parish — which the Obamas last attended in December — is part of a church body sympathetic to Obama’s contraception mandate, which many religious institutions and groups have opposed as an infringement of religious liberty.
The Episcopal Church has “endorsed” the mandate, according to Christian Newswire, and is a member organization of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights, which recently denounced the Roman Catholic bishops and others who oppose the mandate. “The Catholic hierarchy and some religious extremist groups have turned the inclusion of contraception coverage in the health care law into a public battle about their ‘religious freedom,’” said Reverend Alethea Smith-Withers of the RCRC Board of Directors. “The opposite is the case. They are using religion as a cover to discriminate against women.”
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Posted by ZIP on Sunday, March 18, 2012, at 9:10 pm
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