A noteworthy story from the Wall Street Journal on the weighty influence of the Catholic Church in America...and in a capital run by Democrats, of all people. Wonders never cease.
Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potential to upend a key piece of President Barack Obama's agenda.
Behind-the-scenes lobbying, coupled with a grassroots mobilization of Catholic churches across the country, led the House Saturday to pass an amendment to its health-care bill barring anyone who receives a new tax credit from enrolling in a plan that covers abortion, a once-unthinkable event in Democrat-dominated Washington...
The bishops' success served as a reminder that Democrats' strategy over the past two election cycles of recruiting more conservative candidates to run in competitive House and Senate seats can have unwelcome policy consequences for liberals among the party's base. About 40 House Democrats are opposed to abortion rights.
The Democrats, if we are to believe the rhetoric, represent the Party of openness and tolerance, the true blue big tent in American politics. Watch this increasingly bitter family feud over abortion tarnish that claim.
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