 Wall Street favorite, Elizabeth Warren, has doubled down on the time honored tradition of demagogues; trying to win an election by stoking the popular hostilities of a particular religious minority. While I am sure the message plays well in her native Cambridge, I surely hope that kind of demagoguery doesn't take foot in America.
Warren, has now attacked Senator Brown for trying to implement Ted Kennedy-supported conscience protection clauses for the Catholic Church and indeed for all people of faith. Warren has taken the predictably hyperbolic (if not entirely explicable) line that Scott Brown will immediately cause every day Americans to completely lose all of their healthcare coverage: "It opens the door to outright discrimination. It would let insurance companies and corporations cut off pregnant women, overweight guys, older Americans, or anyone - because some executive claims it's part of his moral code. Maybe that wouldn't happen, but I don't want to take the chance."
While I'm not sure how that is entirely even remotely possible, you can tell from her tone that the idea of someone having a "moral code" (can't you just see her eyes rolling with a statement like this?) causes her to just completely seethe. Still more aggravating, is the idea that others wouldn't agree that Americans are Constitutionally entitled to and endowed by their Creator with the positive rights of condoms and abortifacients.
The MassDems under Saint Bridget's alumni and Roman Catholic, John Walsh, went so far during the disastrous Coakley campaign to accuse Senator Brown of trying to turning rape victims away from hospitals. The voters saw right through it, and their appreciation of religious liberty won the day. If Elizabeth Warren wasn't busy raising most of her campaign donations out of state, perhaps she'd realize that Catholicism is the cradle faith of many in Massachusetts, and even if it doesn't hold the prestige it had in the past, politicians shouldn't attack that faith or any other. |
