I understand why the Nun's are for the health care bill

[shraby]

and the Priests, Bishops and the rest of the male side of the church are not.
Nuns do the actual hands on care of people by nursing people in hospitals..Priests, and the other males in the church only hold the patient's and family's hands and pray over and with them.
The Nuns know the nitty gritty of no health coverage.

[PeaceNikki]

1. The nun's what are for health care?

Oh, you means the nuns are for health care.

[sandnsea]

2. Hospitals are usually "Sisters of"

Providence, Mercy, Peace, whatever. They stand to gain as much as the insurance companies and will be able to expand, actually. They do not provide abortions, except to save the actual life of the mother. It makes sense for them, all the way around, to back this health care bill.

[DailyGrind51]

3. The nuns actually work with patients and their families, the bishops are too busy with cover-ups.

[SoxFan]

4. Inaccurate characterization

It's not a male/female split. Most male Catholic clergy and religious support the health care bill. It's the relatively small but noisy group of conservative bishops (Chaput in particular) that have hijacked the machinery of the USCCB in recent years. It's the ecclesiastical equivalent of the Beltway vs. grassroots.

[undeterred]

5. Some nuns are staying in the Catholic Church to change it.

They are highly educated, compassionate, feminists and... a dying breed. I know a nun in her sixties who is a professor and a breast cancer survivor. Her religious order has been self-insured for decades- even with so many nuns being older, it is cheaper for them to simply pay their medical bills than to buy health insurance...and they figured this out in the seventies.

I give them a lot of credit for standing up to the good old boys in an institution which has done everything it can to marginalize women and exclude them from leadership.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Futurama nails it again:

Fry: "Is there anything religion can do to help me find my friend?"
Pastor: "Well, we could join together in prayer."
Fry: "Uh huh, but is there anything useful we can do?"
Pastor: "No."

[jwirr]

7. So do I. My daughter works in a Catholic Hospital and there is no

question that the hospitals understand the need. Their emergency rooms are as busy as any other hospital with people who do not have health care.

[EFerrari]

8. It's likely that the lower you go on the power structure

the more support you find for this bill among what amounts to the working class of the Catholic Church.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

9. Spot on.