Obama promises robust conscience protection
Tim Drake reports in the National Catholic Register: “‘The most noteworthy thing during the meeting was his dispelling of what you might call the expectation of the worst regarding conscience clauses,’ said Father Kearns [NCR editor and publisher]. ‘ . . . He said that in Illinois he was a supporter of a robust conscience clause, something he reiterated in his Notre Dame speech. He added that the government has received hundreds of thousands of public comments, and he promised that there would be a robust conscience-clause protection in place, and that it would not be weaker than the one that was already in place before President Bush’s change. Still, he added, it won’t please everybody.’”
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So why change it?
As I recall, President Obama called for a “reasonable” conscience clause. He did not define what he meant by “reasonable.”