Occupy the pews
by digby
As you may know, I've been doing some posts for Kevin Drum over at MoJo while he's on vacation this week.
It looks like it's going to be a long hot summer. The Christian News Service reports:
Having organized 43 plaintiffs—including the archdioceses of New York and Washington and the University of Notre Dame—to file 12 different lawsuits against the Obama administration last Monday alleging the administration is violating the religious freedom of Catholics, the Catholic bishops of the United States are now preparing Catholics for what may be the most massive campaign of civil disobedience in this country since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and early 1960s.
"Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified," the bishops state in a document developed to be inserted into church bulletins in Catholic parishes around the country in June…
The bulletin insert reminds Catholic parishioners that the bishops have called for "A Fortnight of Freedom"—which they have described as "a special period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action"—to take place from June 21 to July 4.
Read on to see just how unlikely it is that they'll be able to get Catholics to join this crusade. (But they may have some more tricks up their sleeves.) This war n contraception is escalating.
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