Tuesday, November 22, 2011
"They have this conscience thing"
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, chatting with the Post's "Lifestyle" section, on Catholics and abortion:
Catholic health-care providers in particular have long said they’d have to go out of business without the conscience protections that Pelosi says amount to letting hospitals “say to a woman, ‘I’m sorry you could die’ if you don’t get an abortion.” Those who dispute that characterization “may not like the language,’’ she said, “but the truth is what I said. I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it . . . but they have this conscience thing’’ that she insists put women at physical risk, although Catholic providers strongly disagree.
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2011/11/they-have-this-conscience-thing.html
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Mr Winters' history is somewhat inexact. At precisely the time when the Puritans of New England were hanging Catholic priests (and their sponsor Cromwell was slaughtering whole towns), Cecil Lord Calvert decreed a law of religious toleration for his Maryland Colony. The document is contained in the marvelous historical resource, Documents of American History, by Henry Steele Commager (Appleton, Century, Crofts, 6th ed, 1958). This is the first such act that I am aware of anywhere. It was repeated in Dublin, in the brief spring of the Jacobite government in 1689. When the Williamite forces retook Ireland later that year after the disaster at the Boyne, all trace of toleration were expunged from the books.