Cardinal Timothy Dolan: ‘Horror’ of Obama exemption

By TIM MAK
5/22/12

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who’s suing the Obama administration over the birth control mandate, said Tuesday that President Barack Obama doesn’t understand the “horror” that the Catholic Church feels over a “strangling” religious exemption to the mandate.

“I worry that members of [Obama’s] administration might not particularly understand our horror at the restricted nature of the exemption that they’re giving us, that for the first time we can remember, a bureau of the federal government seems to be radically intruding on what the term of a church is,” Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, said on CBS’s “This Morning.” the rest

“This is about religious freedom, it’s not about contraception,” Dolan said. “What we’re worried about now is the exemption given to the churches is so strangling, and so narrow and it’s also presumptuous that a bureau of the federal government is attempting to define for the church the extent of its ministry and ministers.”

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