Pretty much split along party lines—not religion.

Thank you—I was just looking for this.

All Catholics who voted Yea should be excommunicated by their bishops or at least denied Holy Communion.

Boooo, unacceptable.

My heart just breaks for this country and for the Catholic church in this country and around the world. In a short 3 years, when our population was only 20% radical Leftists, we now find that there are not true Catholic Democrats or true old Democrats to be found in Congress anymore! I pray every night for God to turn those away who represent us and whose hearts have turned to stone against the Catholic church and freedoms we have so long enjoyed! it is critical that we go to the pols and vote these people out and donate to the campaigns of these people who voted to table this initiative if we can’t go out ourselves to work against their campaigns! Our church is in crisis and no one , not even the so called Catholics who represent us in Congress,seem to be on the side of justice served! God help us all! And Pray!! Pray that these evil people will be thrown out!

Didn’t even have to check the list…yup, two NJ Senators voted “yea”... so very frustrating.

Add the two Md Senators to the NJ list, no surprise!

no surprise how the Md senators voted, always for abortion.

Anthony B, agree with you about the excommunication for the Catholic senators that voted Yea.  My Texas senators voted Nay - lucky to live in a conservative state.

Looks like alot of democrates are in danger of hell fire. God have mercy on them.

Hey Luke in “Catholic Md”,  how perverse and they are also voting for gay marriage!  Gee,  I live in Florida.

Amazingly enough,  I am very suspicious that they did all this on both sides at last minute,  just as the US Pres was political about moving jobs back from China, land of abortion.  There are more people in China using the pill than there are people in the USA.  And where do they get the money?

Why, at WalMart honey?!!!!!!!!  Made in China. Keep on buying. I have tried not to buy anything new but Pres Papa I am Christian Bush and Bush Jr. did this in the early 90s when all the 30 somethings were in their kimbee PjS AND IN DIAPERS. 

Go wider on coverage of this. What do they do in Europe?  They still have hospitals there.  Go ahead you chicken reporters,  do something.  Ask another mentor audience.  The USCCB should get on the phone with those Vat Cardinales and find out what they would do. 

Yes, we are pro-life, but why can’t we have a dialogue?  We also have to think about how this law is written in a way that will keep us out of court.  Lawyers on the other sides of this love a good law that will get their clients money due to a hefty lawsuit. 

Also, why can’t so called good Catholics have seminars on how to have good relationships where people don’t just jump into bed with everyone? Start at those nightclubs you all and those Baptists won’t go in. BTW, our Cath hospital is run by an ecumencial council here.  We had to do that because they were loosing money here in the Tampa area.

This was a stupid amendment and received the correct vote.  It would allow any employer to choose to exclude any items he wanted from healthcare insurance. 

As long as healthcare insurance is tied to employment, we will have a flawed healthcare insurance system.  Unemployed, underemployed, early retirees, and self-employed have a very hard time buying insurance.  It is very, very expensive if you can even get it without being excluded for pre-existing conditions.

Glad it went the way it did. Should be a none issue!

I expected the 2 NJ Democratic Senators to vote along their party lines. I contacted them by e-mail prior to the vote anyway. Lautenberg loves abortions and abortionists. He is an evil, evil man. Menendez is up for re-election and I pray that he is defeated. Every day I say the prayer to St. Michael. I wish the die-hard Democratic voters would wake up and realize that this is no longer the Democratic Party of their fathers or grandfathers. The Democratic Party is the Party of Death. God help our Mother Church and our country.

Defend Religious Liberty. Sign the Manhattan Declaration.
http://www.manhattandeclaration.org

No surprise with MI Senators either.

Anyone who thinks the US govt should be forced to follow the rules of a church should have their citizenship revoked and be sent to live in Iran. If you want to live in a theocracy, get out of the USA!!!

Makes me sick. My so called representatives NEVER vote in a way that represents me. Makes me want to consider leaving the state of CT.

What is it that the Senators that voted to table this amendment are getting out of the Obama contraception mandate?  What promises were made to them?  What threats were made against them?  Why would they give up the religious liberties of our great nation’s citizens?  This would include themselves and their families.  If they follow a lie wouldn’t they realize that somehow and someday they will also be made a fool?  For those Catholic Senators that did not stand up for our religious freedoms, they must be held accountable by their respective Bishops and those citizens they supposedly represent.  Pray and fast America.  May God have mercy on us.
I would really like to start hearing about all this from the parish pulpit.  I myself have heard very little from our parish Priest on this matter.  Though our Bishop has made a strong statement for them to share.  Now that our Bishops are shepherding their flock, it’s time that the Priests do so as well in obedience to their Bishops.  We can no longer stick our heads in the sand.  We MUST stand while we have the CHOICE to do so.

Proud that both of my state’s reps voted nay. Wasn’t suprised to see a Rockefeller voted yea considering the family’s history. These people will have so much to answer for when they come before the Lord. I hope that wasn’t the end of it. I thought I heard about another one too to be voted on.

The Catholic senators who voted yay should seriously consider leaving the Church. Really what since does it make to worship in a faith when you don’t agree with it’s teachings and beliefs? Perhaps they should all go and worship at the altar of Barrack Obama. He is obviously way more important to them than Jesus Christ has ever been. I pray for their sake that one day that will change.

This vote proves a point:  the Democrat Party isn’t a friend of the Catholic Church. When will Notre Dame University revoke the honorary doctorate that they gave to Obama? He treated it like Hitler treated the Concordat with Pope Pius XI—a license to throttle the Catholic Church. When will the Church use its power of excommunication? This is a war for the very survival of the Church, so no holds should be barred.

Hey, writer “NF”, why don’t you get an education on the meaning of “religious freedom” and “theocracy”. Better yet, take the free online course from Hillsdale College on The Constitution. It’s ignorant citizens like you who are leading this nations tail spin into the ground. And for the rest of us Catholics and other Christians who get it, I think this is a wake up call to Pray and Fast for the future of this country! Even Jesus said that was necessary to accomplish some things. Let’s get going! Once a week everybody!

This mandate is only the tip of the hellsburg (forget ice-burg) and until we get rid of Obama and his obamacare and his OMBAMANISM, we and the rest of the world will be in great danger. Obama studied Hitler and his evil ways and he is faithfully following his dangerous paths of destruction. Let us all pray that Cardinal Burke will come back to the U.s. and meet with ALL OF THE BISHOPS and teach them about Canon Law 915 and MAKE them to start using it on these “catholic” politicians. Salvation is the key-word here for their souls (Bishops and politicians) and our freedom is at stake. For those few blind people that are happy that the Democrats failed them, even if they are too stupid to know it, this is about dictatorship and destruction of our country, not just the freedom of being in sexual sin, which is a one-way ticket to hell.  +JMJ+

AHG! Both of the NY senators voted Yea, no suppise there. But I still can’t believe I used to live there. I am proud of the PA senators though!

Thank you for this info.

I agree with Ken.  Why are these so-called Democratic Catholics even in the Catholic Church anymore?  They obviously don’t believe and follow the teachings of the Church.  Time for us Catholics to wake up and vote these bums out of office.  They don’t represent us.

And both my Minnesota senators voted with no conscience.

Sad to see that Michigan, the state I recently moved from voted 2 yea’s but glad to see Texas, where I moved to, were both nay’s.

Is there such a thing as a Roman Catholic pink slip from a bishop to a lay person?  Mass excommunications are in order.

If Catholic elected representatives can’t be removed from office, at least they should get the word they ought not show up for Communion at Mass.  Really.  It is a responsibility for these people to know, in clear terms, they are 100% wrong to put government over God.  It’s disobedience.

Edward Kennedy had President Obama deliver a letter to Pope Benedict, when he was towards the end of his life.  As if that would do any good.  What was he expecting to happen?  God giving him a pass?  It doesn’t work that way.

As a conservative and a convert, I continue to be amazed and deeply saddened by the number of “Catholics” who vote for Democrats (i.e. people who are determined to destroy our Church). Perhaps during the coming election cycle we must start treating voter “education” in our parishes as an addiction problem rather than an educational one.

A Catholic priest speaks out about Obama’s broken promises

http://youtu.be/ltTd81XpDnc