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“I don’t think we’ve seen in the history of this country the kind of attack on religious freedom we’ve seen in Barack Obama most recently requiring the Catholic Church to provide for its employees and its various enterprises health care insurance that would include birth control, sterilization and the morning after pill.  He tried to retreat from that, but he retreated in a way that was not appropriate, because these insurance companies have to provide these same things, and now the Catholic Church will have to pay for them.”

– Newt Gingrich at the GOP debate in Mesa, AZ, February 22

Fact check: the Catholic Church is exempt from Obama’s contraception mandate.

“Never again should we pay somebody 99 weeks for doing nothing.  In 99 weeks, you can earn an associate degree.  I mean, think about the total waste of human capability when you teach people to sit at home for 99 weeks.  It’s fundamentally wrong, and a violation of the Declaration of Independence commitment that we have the right to pursue happiness.”

– Newt Gingrich on unemployment insurance