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"  currently wearing my eyeballs, the Clan Of The Red Beanie has decided that the latest concession by the administration on the matter of contraceptive coverage is not sufficient to answer its demands that the Presbyterian charpeople in its employ be held to a cockeyed doctrine that most Catholics have been ignoring since 1965. By now, please god, even E.J. Dionne, as goodhearted and humane a person as we have in our pundit class, must be ready to nail his next column -- and the laptop that contains it -- to the cathedral door. Enough. Seriously, enough, Mr. President. No more compromises. In fact, the compromises already agreed to are off the table. The original mandate is back in place. If the Clan wants to ignore it, the Clan can get fined for whatever it&amp;#039;s got left after it settles all the lawsuits. If the Clan wants to conduct exercises in civil disobedience, its members can do so and then go to jail, where a considerable number of them belong, anyway. You can obey the law -- the whole law -- or you can pay the penalty. And, by the way, I&amp;#039;m throwing the Department Of Justice behind any survivors of sexual abuse who want to pry documents out of any archive between here and the Chair Of Peter. Don&amp;#039;t like it? Tough. You have exhausted any reasonable facsimile of patience. How do I know this? Check out the latest response to the president&amp;#039;s offer of a deal.  He listed three key areas of concern: the narrow understanding of a religious ministry; compelling church ministries to fund and facilitate services such as contraceptives, including abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization that violate Catholic teaching; and disregard of the conscience rights of for-profit business owners. These are the same concerns articulated by the USCCB Administrative Committee in its March 2012 statement, United for Religious Freedom.  Now, they want the Hobby Lobby loophole, too. This is coming from Dolan, the clown in New York who has a more-than-cameo role in Alex Gibney&amp;#039;s new HBO movie about the horrendous abuse scandal that took place at a school for the deaf in Milwaukee. There is no point to it any more. Enact the law and let the chips fall. You are attempting to compromise with people who simply do not want anyone to have access to birth control. You are attempting to compromise with people who do not accept your right to demand anything of them in return. It is time to be a secular political leader again and not give a damn. The Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States has become a form of putrescence in the body politic. Long before its current meddling, it made a mockery of the civil law in ways that are grotesque and genuinely evil. It betrayed both the faith of its laity -- including me -- and its responsibilities as an institution of civil society. It abandoned its obligations to its fellow citizens, whether they are Catholic or not. It is in no position to demand anything from them. It should be ridiculed, and then ignored. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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