Stephen Baldwin Hits Obama on Contraception Mandate, Praises Santorum
Appearing as a guest on Saturday's Fox and Friends, actor and conservative talk radio host Stephen Baldwin criticized President Obama for daring to second guess Catholic Church doctrine in trying to force Catholic employers to provide contraceptive coverage for their employees. As he was preparing to speak at the CPAC convention in Washington, D.C., he also talked up GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum who has enjoyed a recent string of electoral victories. (Video below)
After being asked about the contraception mandate, Baldwin went after Obama:
The first thought that comes to mind to me is, if you're an American and you're a Roman Catholic, is this what you voted for when you voted for Barack Obama, people? Because, for Barack Obama to try to force and impose on the Roman Catholic faith in particular this type of questioning of oneself about what is right or wrong, or really if you're a Roman Catholic, now, this is something that should be off the table because this type of conversation is sin, according to the faith.
He concluded:
So now Barack Obama is trying to dictate what in his opinion is right and wrong, and what is or isn't correct, according to that faith. That's serious stuff, guys.
When asked about his views on the Republican presidential candidates, he had positive words about Santorum:
I think a lot of eyeballs now - not just because he won these last three states in a row - I think a lot of people are really waking up and smelling the coffee about Santorum right now. He's been in the background. He's played this whole process very well. It's going to be very interesting to see - regardless of Romney and his money and all of that power - it's going to be very interesting to see now how Santorum can take this momentum and really get his message out there and let the American people know who he is.
Below is video of the relevant portion of the Saturday, February 11, Fox and Friends on FNC:
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⇒ Short Attention Spanland
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 10:04am.
A few more sweeps around the green screen and that bogey drops off. No more Catholics jumping on the bed.
Did you hear Whitney Houston died?
That's so 37 seconds ago...
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 11:04am.
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My fav Baldwin brother!!!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 10:48am.
Because Adam's not a real brother.
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Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 11:03am.
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The real issue is lost in the debate.
Submitted by JohnMcGrew on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 11:29am.
How about the whole concept of "free"? There is no such thing! So the church will no longer have to pay, but their insurance company will? Who pays the insurance company? There is no difference!!!
How about the constitutionality of "mandating" that a private company be forced to pay for something that the buyer (the Church, in this case) does not want to buy?
Exactly where in the Constitution does it say that?
It doesn't, of course
Submitted by jon_torlin on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 11:38am.
But you know what the WH will say about that? They'll say they were given the authority by Congress (before their ouster) by way of ObamaCare.
Our only hope is the SCOTUS overturning ObamaCare and I don't even have faith that they will.
-Jon
Unfortunately...
Submitted by JohnMcGrew on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 11:52am.
...a few more Supreme Court nominees will likely see to it that that will not happen for several generations, when it will be too late...
Postmodern USA's sadly typical historical & Biblical illiteracy
Submitted by russedav on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:44pm.
I love Steve Baldwin, but as he and nearly all "conservatives" foolishly focus on "the catholic church" they fail to comprehend just what that entity really is, not just regarding history, but most especially regarding how it is in God's sight, HIS story, especially what the Bible they never read really says about it.
The oxymoronic "Roman Catholic" (Roman+Universal?) "church" is largely a gnostic authoritarian heresy holding to
synergist (man must help God out with his alleged "free will" to be saved, contrary to what the Bible says) and
marion (Mary is effectively if not actually not just part of the Godhead but sometimes even more important in actual practice)
dogmas it once declared heresy contrary to "the one true catholic faith" but now embraced as dogma without which it is said one cannot be saved, the typical 180 flip of Dems when it suits them, not that the GOP doesn't also try hard.
Contrary to the abandonment by most professing "protestants" of the true Biblical faith, mostly embracing soteriological (=regarding salvation) views very similar to the Vatican's, the real "one true catholic faith" is the original founding position and view of most Reformation groups recovered from Augustine God raised up (e.g. especially that of true followers of the Augustinian monk Luther & of Calvin(note I didn't say "lutherans" and "calvinists" considering how few of them truly follow their founders if you read what followers vs founder actually say) as a reformation of His Church with great spiritual versus temporal power, unlike Vatican hegemony that is and seeks the reverse, great temporal versus spiritual power, which is why most martyrs have not been papists and why the true Christians in the Vatican system don't realize that their faith is really a heresy according to official "Roman Catholic" teaching/doctrine. .
What, pray tell, does
Submitted by lotr on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 1:08pm.
What, pray tell, does this sectarian diatribe have to do with religious liberty in the United States?
Take your
Submitted by action on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 2:28pm.
anti Catholic rant and bigotry to another site.
Baldwin
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 5:19pm.
Turns out the ONLY Baldwin I ever found attractive is also the only one who has a brain - who'd a thunk it?
Ronald Reagan