Positions/Legislation advocated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Pennsylvania Catholic ConferenceThe USCCB urges us to advocate, so that our legislators in Washington....
- Support/Co-Sponsor the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (i.e., HR 7 / S 946 (and S1848)),
- Support/Co-Sponsor the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (i.e., HR 940 /
S 1204;
the Pa Catholic Conf also facilitates action on the Health Care Conscience Rights Act .), - Support/Co-Sponsor the Marriage Protection Amendment (i.e., HJ Res 51),
- Support/Co-Sponsor the Marriage and Religious Freedom Act (i.e., HR 3133 / S 1808),
- Support/Co-Sponsor the State Marriage Defense Act (i.e., HR 3829 / S 2024),
- Support/Co-Sponsor the Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act (i.e., HR 5285 / S 2706),
- Support/Co-Sponsor the Second Chance Act (i.e., HR 3465/S 1690),
- Support/Co-Sponsor the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act (i.e., HR 4653).
- Support "just and compassionate immigration reform" (The Pa Catholic Conference also facilitates support for immigration reform.)
- Opposition to the misleadingly named Employment Non-Discrimination Act (i.e., S 815/ HR 1755, HRES 639, HRES 678).
- Oppose the so-called so-called Protect Women's Health from Corporate Interference Act (i.e., HR 5051/S2578) .
- Supports Marriage (This forms a message of encouragement to Theresa Gaffney, Clerk of the Orphan's Court of Schuylkill County, who is trying to defend marriage in Pa. It would seem that sponsors of HB 1349. also merit our encouragement.),
- Supports equal education funding.
The Pa Catholic Conference urges us to
- Oppose HB 162 (NOTE: While ostensibly about giving adoptees full access to info about their birth parents, this blogger has noticed that HB 162 says NOTHING about access to info, when one biological parent was a so-called "egg donor" or a so-called "sperm donor." Privacy rights of biological parents who chose life could be overridden, while those playing God continue to have absolute protection!),
- Oppose the death penalty,
- Oppose HB300/SB300 (The Pa Catholic Conference describes this legislation as "intolerant and prejudiced against people of faith." Governor Corbett (a Catholic) supports this legislation (cf., Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/19/13). Scandalously, both HB 300 and SB 300 count Catholics among their co-sponsors!).
(Click for an interactive chart
on how public officials representing the Archdiocese are doing
in D.C. and how public officials representing Bucks County are
doing in Harrisburg, regarding these positions/legislation.)
Other Positions/ Legislation of Great Concern:
Oppose HB2303/SB1456, Pa's anti-life, anti-woman and misleadingly named "Patient Trust Act." As per Maria Gallagher of Pa Pro Life, "Women deserve to know the facts. We cannot turn back the clock to the days when women did not receive vital information before making life-altering medical decisions."
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