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Pat Buchanan: ‘Obama is trampling on God’s turf’ [VIDEO]

Jeff Poor Media Reporter
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According to Pat Buchanan, the Obama administration’s decision to revise its mandate that religious institutions must offer “access” to conception, despite the mandate violating Church doctrine, still falls short.

On this weekend’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” Buchanan criticized the Obama administration Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, describing her as a “nominal Catholic” and questioning the administration’s political judgment.

“Trinity girl, nominal Catholic,” Buchanan said of Sebelius. “When they antagonize and enrage and get the bishops of the Catholic Church — a lot of whom grew up in Democratic families and are not hostile toward Obama — fighting him, is a religious war for two weeks, he’s been badly damaged.”

Buchanan alluded to Sebelius’ stance on abortion as the basis of his critique of her.

“I think she’s pro-choice on abortion,” he said. “How can you be that and be a traditionalist Catholic?”

Ultimately, Buchanan said, Obama should absolve his administration from any entanglements with Catholic institutions.

“His problem is — this time Obama is trampling on Gods’s turf,” Buchanan said. “You just saw it. That is a partial capitulation, which is not enough … Get him out of our Catholic institutions is what the demand is.”

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