Posted on 05/21/2012 8:40:18 AM PDT by JesseWatters
The University of Notre Dame filed a lawsuit Monday (May 21) challenging the constitutionality of a federal regulation that requires religious organizations to provide, pay for, and/or facilitate insurance coverage for services that violate the teachings of the Catholic Church. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, the lawsuit names as defendants Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and their respective departments. The federal mandate requires Notre Dame and similar religious organizations to provide in their insurance plans abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilization procedures, which are contrary to Catholic teaching. It also authorizes the government to determine which organizations are sufficiently “religious” to warrant an exemption from the requirement.
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Why is it not ever pointed out that today’s progressiver movement holds still the same stance that they did back in the days when they revived and championed the KKK? The KKK was heavily anti-Catholic back in the days when the progressive movement championed them. Hugo Black who institutionalized ‘Separation of Church and State’ was a progressive (appointed by progressive icon FDR) and also a KKK lawyer.
The media loved trying to tar the TEA party with the tag of racism but fail to point out that the progressive movement is still targeting the same groups that it did back when it championed the KKK. The KKK was anti-Catholic and anti-Traditional values and todays progressive democrat is no different today.
Let’s see the SOTUS tackle this invasion of freedom of religion by the oppressive state.
But say God in a public school....and you will find yourself expelled.
As long as he holds an Honorary degree from them, Notre Dame will be a joke.
But in this instance I say:
Win one for the Gipper!
Guess fund raising among the alumni must have dried up. Time for damage control.
On top of all the awful things here, we now have the government determining who is "religious enough"?
This is not socialism, it is communism. pure and simple.
Obama has no honorary degree from Baylor. Maybe thats why ND got stomped,,
Notre Dame a catholic institution, who knew?
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