Lilies That Fester | National Catholic Reporter

Lilies That Fester | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: This is not the only "God related" mistake convention organizers made - recall the platform change that was inserted without enough comment to know that the President was behind it, which had people booing the process, not God.  However, the Democrats have nothing on the GOP, who went out of their way to alienate and embarrass the Ron Paul supporters on the first day of the convention.  As for the other issues, the writer is simply wrong on whether Obama and the Democrats are working with the Church.  While they may differ on how the Catholic Church goes along with making abortion an issue (it isn't until the pro-life side offers a real bill) and on marriage equality (and for a while, Obama was bending over backwards to not offend both black and Catholic pastors by endorsing what should be obvious), on issues of delivering health care and social services, by and large the Obama White House has worked closely with the Catholic Health Association and Catholic Charities USA.  Indeed both had members and the CCUSA staff get contraceptive coverage since December 2000 - if not before - since it was fairly standard to include in many policies and has been for decades.  If anything, the Obama White House should be upset at the Catholic Church for allowing the promulgation of lies on what was in health care reform regarding abortion in order to derail largely pro-life Democrats from being re-elected, when the Susan B. Anthony fund lied about what was in the bill in order to give us a GOP majority.