Connie Mack Rips Bill Nelson for Birth-Control Amendment
Republican Senate hopeful U.S. Rep. Connie Mack took aim at Democrat U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson for voting against the Blunt amendment that would have permitted employers to refuse to cover health-care costs contrary to their religious beliefs -- mainly birth-control and abortion-inducing drugs. The amendment went down on a 51-48 vote.
“Liberal Senator Bill Nelson is at it again,” Mack said. “Just a few weeks ago, he told the people of Florida that ‘church-affiliated organizations should be exempt’ from the massive overreach of Obamacare’s contraception mandate. But, as he’s done so many times before, after telling the people of Florida one thing, he’s now done the opposite and voted in lockstep with President Obama and other Washington liberals to block an amendment that would allow church organizations an exemption from this mandate that violates Americans' First Amendment rights. That's wrong. The people of Florida have had more than enough of Senator Nelson’s doublespeak. When I am sworn as our state’s next U.S. senator, Floridians will be able to rely on two consistent conservatives voting on their behalf in Washington.”
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8:36AM MAR 2ND 2012
While Mr Mack's statement was good on this yesterday. Unlike Bill Nelson, Mack IV is a Catholic, and has consistently (4 times) voted against the teaching of the Catholic Church and 5th commandment, "Thou shalt not kill," by voting for embryonic stem cell research in Congress. President George Bush only had 2 vetos in 8 years. Both vetos were to reject human embryo destruction with taxpayer money. Mack IV not only voted for it, but to override Bush's veto. ESCR does not even work, never has. So, not only is it morally indefensible and against the teaching of the Church, but Mack IV has not done his homework on the issue. The Florida Seante deserves a senator who undestands that the Right to life is endowed by our Creator, and it is not to be usurped by a politician in WA, D.C.; and obligate taxpayers unwillingly, to the slaughter of human embryos with their monies. While Connie Mack IV defended the Church and taxpayers from funding contraception and aborticfacients, his other votes which commited taxpayer's money to deliberately destroy human life are far worse.
