At Religion Dispatches, Sarah C. Moore discusses the religious right’s response to Tom Daschle’s appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services:
Tom Daschle’s appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services, yesterday, has once again brought his Catholic faith into question. Headlines from the blogs and news sites of the religious right read “Pro-Life Nightmare” and “Pro-Abortion Catholic to Head Department of Health and Human Services,” interpreting Daschle’s appointment as further proof that the Obama administration will promote a “radical anti-life and anti-family agenda.”
[…]It’s interesting that as far as gauging someone’s legitimacy as a Catholic, as a person of faith, the buck stops at one’s stance on abortion. Here is a man who is poised to reform health care so that the “least among us” can also be served. Nevertheless, the religious right turns a blind eye to how health care reform could reduce the need for abortion and continues to stand on their single-issue soapbox.
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