<p><img src="images/stories/newt.jpg" border="0" alt="Newt Gingrich" hspace="7" align="left" />On Wednesday Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was “waging war on the Catholic Church.” His statement was in reference to the new mandate that health plans will be regulated to provide sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs free of charge.</p>
<p>“This secretary of HHS is a radical. She is waging war on the Catholic Church. She’s adopted radical positions on a range of issues,” Gingrich said.</p>
<p>CNS News <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gingrich-sebelius-she-waging-war-catholic-church" target="_blank">reports</a>,</p>
<p>In its lawsuit against the HHS and Sebelius, the Archdiocese of New York cited similar comments made by Sebelius herself at a NARAL fundraising event. According to the lawsuit, Sebelius told NARAL “we are in a war” with institutions that, like the Catholic Church, believe both abortion and contraception are wrong.</p>
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<p>“Defendant Sebelius has long supported abortion rights and criticized Catholic teachings and beliefs regarding abortion and contraception,” the Catholic lawsuit states. “NARAL Pro-Choice America is a pro-abortion organization that likewise opposes many Catholic teachings. At that fundraiser, Defendant Sebelius said, ‘We are in a war,’ and criticized individuals and entities whose beliefs differed from those held by her and the other attendees of the NARAL Pro-Choice America fundraiser.”</p>
<p>“She added: ‘Wouldn’t you think that people who want to reduce the number of abortions would champion the cause of widely available, widely affordable contraceptive services? Not so much,’” reads the lawsuit.</p>
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<p>Gingrich was asked how HHS was defining “work” in its policy on “welfare-to-work”. He responded, “I think this is part of what confuses some people in the media about the intensity of our reaction. George Orwell wrote a great essay called ‘Politics In the English Language,’ in which he said you could tell when someone is truly a scoundrel by the language they use to hide being a scoundrel. This secretary of HHS is a radical. She is waging war on the Catholic Church. She’s adopted radical positions on a range of issues.”</p>
<p><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/08/gingrich-sebelius-is-waging-war-on-the-catholic-church/#ixzz230a6pz3Q" style="COLOR: #003399">http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/08/gingrich-sebelius-is-waging-war-on-the-catholic-church/#ixzz230a6pz3Q</a></p>