GOP Rep Stands By Birth Control Mandate Equals 9/11, Pearl Harbor

That comes from this post in The Huffington Post. Excerpt:

Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) isn’t backing down from a controversial comparison he made on Wednesday, likening the requirement that private insurance plans provide contraception coverage to Pearl Harbor and 9/11. …

“The HHS mandate is an undeniable and unprecedented attack on Americans’ First Amendment rights,” his spokesman told Newsmax.com.

“Our freedoms and way of life have been under attack before, from both internal and external threats,” he said. “If we fail to defend our constitutional rights, we risk losing the freedoms that so many brave men and women have given their lives to defend throughout the course of our nation’s history.”

—Chad Blair

Photo of 9/11 Memorial courtesy Tom Hannigan.