Nebraska Bishops, inlcuding Bruskewitz, Want to Extort Money from Taxpayers too

It's one thing to use your moral authority to exhort people to help care for people down on their luck, even if they break the law and come here illegally, but it's another thing entirely to use that influence to encourage lawmakers to pass laws to help extort the money from taxpayers and crow about how charitable you're being, and ironically, how uncharitable others are being who oppose your designs. Maybe these Bishops don't get it, but government isn't a solution.

Again, perhaps if Bishops were as concerned about real justice, real charities and doing their jobs, which is saving souls, perhaps more people might be moved to act charitably?

In any event, Bishops like Gumbleton and Wuerl advocate for this non-sense, so it's surprising to see apparently conservative Bishops engage in this shakedown routine as well.

LINCOLN — Nebraska's Catholic bishops are turning up the heat on Gov. Dave Heineman to reverse his opposition to government-funded prenatal care for low-income, illegal immigrants.

In a letter Wednesday to the governor, Omaha Archbishop George Lucas, Lincoln Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz and Grand Island Bishop Thomas Dendinger expressed their “high level of concern and disappointment” with Heineman's position.

“This is an important and urgent pro-life matter,” the letter stated. “Denying prenatal coverage care in these circumstances of family poverty is an affront to human dignity and pro-life principles.”

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