17 March 2012

Another B.O. blow to our religious liberty

From the NYT:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration took another step on Friday to enforce a federal mandate for health insurance coverage of contraceptives, announcing how the new requirement would apply to the many Roman Catholic hospitals, universities and social service agencies that insure themselves [. . .]

Some otherwise solid Catholics are claiming that this mandate is not a violation of religious liberty.  I can't follow the logic of their twisted arguments.  If you pay for it, you're complicit. 

What I do know is that progressive social engineering by our Self Anointed Betters is indeed progressive, or rather it is incremental.  If the mandate stands, other mandates will follow until the only thing we're allowed to practice is our choir voices and maybe the occasional baptism. . .using FDA approved luke-warm, organic bottled water, of course.  

That's what B.O.'s whole freedom of worship rhetoric is about--the exclusion of religious voices from the public square. Keep your religion confined to the church. Our Constitution categorically restrains any governmental intrusion in our faith lives, guaranteeing our freedom of religion and not only our freedom to worship as we see fit.

STAND UP for our religious liberty on March 23rd!  And do not buy the lie that this battle is about women's health, contraception, or the right to privacy.  That's just faux political posturing to frighten women and shore up support among secularists.
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:38 PM

    When Obama started using the term "Freedom of Worship" and people commented on it, I thought they were just being paranoid...even though I have never liked Obama. Obviously and sadly I was wrong. I am also saddened by all who don't see through this very scary thing the administration is doing.

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  2. Anonymous10:38 PM

    When Obama started using the term "Freedom of Worship" and people commented on it, I thought they were just being paranoid...even though I have never liked Obama. Obviously and sadly I was wrong. I am also saddened by all who don't see through this very scary thing the administration is doing.

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  3. Anonymous5:08 PM

    From the NYT article linked:
    " In a letter to the president of Georgetown University, John J. DeGioia, 66 members of the law school faculty said Friday that the university should address Ms. Fluke’s concerns and consider providing contraceptive coverage in the student health plan.

    “The current policy puts student health at risk,” said M. Gregg Bloche, a professor at the law school, “and with our Jesuit tradition, we should be concerned about that.”

    I guess the Jesuit Tradition doesn't include safeguarding the students' spiritual health.

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