Dear Editors of Commonweal, and America Pursuit of truth - www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com -Good Shepherd Sunday, April 29/12 Reference “Partisan Dangers” July 17, 2012 - Commonweal - Also, Bishop Lori responds to the editorial of “America.” (Mar. 24th) and Envisioning Religious Liberty - (Mar. 11th) As a subscriber to your magazines in a time of crisis, all Catholic label persons should stick together. Even if you don’t practice the Catholic faith. Remember the Faith of your parents and great grandparents. They built the schools and hospitals. They believed in the Magisterium, the Pope, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Think out of the box. Set aside your bias against bishops. Follow the leadership of Timothy Cardinal Dolan. The Obama Health and Human Service Mandate (HHSM) is a clear violation of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. If enforced, Catholics would become second-class citizens in America. I and others did not come to America to be second-class citizens. The Government has brought this issue to the forefront, not the U.S. Catholic Church. Note the bracketed sentences are from your editorial. “It urges Catholics to participate in a “Fortnight for Freedom” leading up to this year’s Fourth of July holiday, during which they are asked to study, pray, and take public action against what it describes as concentrated government efforts to deprive religious groups of their rights.” [You have a duty to inform your readers. Are they informed on why this is going on?] “Religious freedom “ought not to be a partisan issue,” the bishops declare. They are absolutely right.” [The Obama administration has made it a partisan issue.] “The bishops’ description of the various threats to religious conflates a number of disparate federal, state and judicial actions into an alleged unified and urgent peril. The argument is hyperbolic.” [Be fair now. It is not a an overstatement or exaggeration.] “It is not at all clear that the threat to religious liberty has suddenly become much greater.” [Where have you been January 2009 of the Obama administration?] “As religious objections to abortion and contemporary sexual mores have come to dictate Republican Party policy, many other Americans have reacted by becoming deeply suspicious of the role of religion in politics.” [Isn’t that what pro-life Democrats have tried to do within the Democratic Party? Have you supported or organized them? Why not?] “For their efforts to be effective, the bishops’ must be seen to be nonsectarian and independent of electoral politics. [That is hard to do when America has a two-faced, double-standard news media. You can help by being different and focusing on the truth.] “In their simplistic rhetoric, the bishops sound more like politicians than pastors.” [Timothy Cardinal Dolan is not using simplistic rhetoric. Have the backbone to support him. Please help the Church to strengthen pro-life and educate on true marriage. As Jesuits you have sworn an oath of loyalty to the Pope and to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Do not become an Obama Catholic. Support the true Catholic option for the poor. Remember the Social Justice programs of Bill Ayers and Sol Alinsky are diabolical.] George H. Kubeck