Palin: Obama Actions 'Un-American'...'We're Rising Up'

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Well, there's trouble growing tonight for President Obama's contraception rule. The top U.S. Catholic bishop, who, incidentally, is four days from becoming a cardinal, now vowing to take on the president and fight the mandate through Congress, as well as the courts. Today, Archbishop Timothy Dolan, speaking from Rome, where he will be elevated to cardinal on Saturday -- he's announcing he is rejecting President Obama's so-called "compromise." The President said religious groups wouldn't have to pay for birth control for the workers. Instead, under the president's latest idea, the "accommodation," the insurance companies would have to provide it themselves free of charge.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin joins us. Good evening, Governor.

SARAH PALIN, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR/FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: Good evening, Greta. How are you?

VAN SUSTEREN: Very well. So that's going over like a lead balloon with the Catholic church, the accommodation. Why?

PALIN: Well, I think they're realizing that this is "ObamaCare." Welcome to government-mandated health care and the stripping of our liberties and choices with this takeover of about one sixth of our economy, by the way.

And more power to the bishop for not going wobbly on this one saying, no, that this compromise really is no compromise because the controversy that ensued was based upon the fact that this is an assault on religious liberties. It's government telling a faith-based institution what it must provide, though it does absolutely violate the conscience of that institution. And this bishop is saying it's not going to work.

VAN SUSTEREN: And it's sort of interesting because President Obama is hoping that -- or what he thought on Friday with his accommodation was that insurance companies would make the payments and not the Catholic church. But the thing is that many of these Catholic -- Catholic hospitals are self-insured, so that they would have pay for it themselves.

I mean, so -- I don't know -- I'm sort of stunned at how poorly this was thought out by the Obama administration. They didn't think that one step ahead.

PALIN: Yes, very poor politics that they would choose such a battle. One, to pick a fight with faith-filled Americans. You know, we will fight -- as the father had said earlier on the "Hannity" show, we'll fight to the death for our freedom of religion and for the rights that are protected by our United States Constitution.

This is an un-American act of our president. Anything that would so blatantly violate an amendment within the United States Constitution is un-American. And Barack Obama needs to rethink what he has just done to the people of America because we're rising up on this one. We're not going to back off and we're not going to say OK, it is all right that such a violation of conscience, such a violation of those things that our Founders fought and died for -- we're just going sit back and let it happen to us. Not this time!