Evidence Emerges That We Are Winning the Mandate Fight (So Keep At It!)

By Thomas Peters
American Papist

Tim Carney and John McCormack are doing a great job reporting on new polling which suggests that President Obama’s attempt to set Catholics against each other (and women against the Catholic Chruch) is failing.

Why is that?

One reason I would suggest first: women, and Catholics, and especially Catholic women are smart and are seeing through the false pro-mandate “arguments.”

I hesitate to even call these pro-mandate positions “arguments” because all they really amount to is propaganda aimed at confusing us and diverting the conversation away from the real issues.

E. J. Dionne’s latest article in the Washington Post (surprise!) is a good example of this, where he attempts to bring in a comparison to the Tea Party (of all things) to distract us.

George Weigel points out how the pro-mandate forces have been forced to abandon any actual arguments for the mandate because there is simply no good case to be made for it:

One of the most maddening aspects of this otherwise bracing debate has been the refusal of those who support either the HHS mandate or the bogus administration accommodation to debate honestly, in terms of the facts, and fairly, in terms of the rhetoric. This leads one to the suspicion that the administration’s defenders know that they have a losing case.

Charles Cooke makes a similar observation:

We are dealing here with a non-issue: Women are not suffering in America because they have to pay for their own birth control. It is this stubborn fact that has pushed the advocates of the mandate to resort so quickly to hyperbole.

Indeed, the more this debate goes on, the more evident the pro-mandate crowd’s fixation on contraception (and sterilization and abortion causing drugs) becomes. Especially when clever op-ed writers began to point out that, under the pro-mandate crowd’s absurd logic, the Administration could begin mandating everything from coffee to salad bars, and from food to guns.

I also have to give a shout-out to the amazing Catholic women such as Kalley Yanta and Gloria Purvis who have been making the case against the mandate on YouTube and other media outlets.

So don’t believe what the media tells you to believe: that this “war on women” is helping Obama on his way to re-election. The media and pro-mandate forces are being forced to rely on propaganda tactics to survive.

If we keep making the truthful case with force and passion, we win. It’s as simple as that.

So keep speaking the truth about this mandate — our freedom depends on it!