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Catholic TV Network Forced to Comply With HHS Mandate
Townhall ^ | June 18, 2014 | Christine Rousselle

Posted on 06/18/2014 12:04:12 PM PDT by lilyramone

EWTN: Global Catholic Television Network (EWTN), a Catholic-themed television network founded in 1980 in a garage studio by a nun, has been denied protection from the HHS contraception mandate following a decision yesterday by Mobile, Ala. District Judge Callie V. Granade. A statement posted on EWTN's website and Facebook page by CEO Michael P. Warsaw expressed his disappointment with the decision and said that EWTN will seek an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: catholic; contraceptionmandate; ewtn; hhsmandate; obamacare
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The "Notion of Scandal" is not knowingly leading another to sin....why is this not protected for Catholics but EVERYTHING is protected for Muslims?!
1 posted on 06/18/2014 12:04:12 PM PDT by lilyramone
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To: lilyramone

Catholics keep voting for Rats who put people like this in power.

Elections have consequences.


2 posted on 06/18/2014 12:09:06 PM PDT by Regulator
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The "Notion of Scandal" is not knowingly leading another to sin....why is this not protected for Catholics but EVERYTHING is protected for Muslims?!

These sorts of rulings are payback for all the Church's involvement in government and overblown fears of a Christian Theocracy.

Muslims haven't yet had an influence.

If they ever become large enough a group, though, they won't take it like Christians.

3 posted on 06/18/2014 12:13:44 PM PDT by freerepublicchat
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To: lilyramone
Global Catholic Television Network (EWTN), a Catholic-themed television network founded in 1980 in a garage studio by a nun, has been denied protection from the HHS contraception mandate following a decision yesterday by Mobile, Ala. District Judge Callie V. Granade. A statement posted on EWTN's website and Facebook page by CEO Michael P. Warsaw expressed his disappointment with the decision and said that EWTN will seek an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

The US Catholic bishops wanted the law passed. They got 90% of what they wanted.

4 posted on 06/18/2014 12:18:39 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: lilyramone

I hope EWTN has the decency to either shut down or move out of the United States if their appeals fail. They cannot comply with this demand for complicity in a grave evil:

http://www.catholic.com/tracts/abortion

“The Catholic Church has always condemned abortion as a grave evil. Christian writers from the first-century author of the Didache to Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae (”The Gospel of Life”) have maintained that the Bible forbids abortion, just as it forbids murder. This tract will provide some examples of this consistent witness from the writings of the Fathers of the Church . . .”


5 posted on 06/18/2014 12:18:40 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: NYer; Salvation

Judge says EWTN must obey Obamacare pro-abortion HHS laws.


6 posted on 06/18/2014 12:31:38 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: lilyramone

Naturally. But which major “religion” was exempted from 0bamacare? Hint. It’s the one that hates Jews and Christians, and slices living heads off living bodies.


7 posted on 06/18/2014 12:34:35 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: lilyramone

I believe they are going to appeal again.


8 posted on 06/18/2014 12:38:51 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Regulator

Please don’t put all Catholics into one voting bucket. It doesn’t happen that way at all.


9 posted on 06/18/2014 12:39:32 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: GreyFriar

Discrimination against a Catholic corporation is what this is.


10 posted on 06/18/2014 12:40:33 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Regulator

If our rights depend on elections, they aren’t rights.


11 posted on 06/18/2014 12:44:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th. Article V.)
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To: Regulator
Catholics keep voting for Rats who put people like this in power.

The type of faithful Catholics that watch EWTN don't vote for Liberals.

12 posted on 06/18/2014 12:49:21 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Regulator

They were all for it until they didn’t get their exemption, too.


13 posted on 06/18/2014 12:50:24 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Regulator

Amen and in a nutshell.


14 posted on 06/18/2014 12:52:21 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: fidelis

Oh really,have you talked to some,I have.


15 posted on 06/18/2014 12:54:18 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Regulator
Catholics keep voting for Rats who put people like this in power.

Yep. Our clergy would not denounce them from the pulpit in 2012, even after they had declared war on us.


16 posted on 06/18/2014 12:54:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lilyramone

Fwiw..

Judge is 2001 GW BUsh appointee


17 posted on 06/18/2014 12:54:39 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: lilyramone

Sr. Angelica will not let the network she created (with some American Bishop even trying to shut her down)be used for evil.


18 posted on 06/18/2014 1:00:24 PM PDT by mware
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To: lilyramone

Callie Virginia Smith “Ginny” Granade (born 1950) is a District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. She joined the court in 2002 after being nominated by President George W. Bush in 2001.

On the recommendation of Senators Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby, Granade was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama by President George W. Bush on September 4. 2001 to a seat vacated Alex T. Howard, Jr. retired from Federal Judicial Service in senior status. Granade was confirmed by the Senate on February 4, and received her commission on February 12, 2002.


19 posted on 06/18/2014 1:02:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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They were all for it until they didn’t get their exemption, too

Please post here ANY evidence that EWTN ever endorsed Obamacare, or any similar proposal. I think you can't, because AFAIK it doesn't exist.

NB: EWTN is not controlled by the USCCB, nor the reverse. They're an independent corporate entity.

20 posted on 06/18/2014 1:17:56 PM PDT by Campion
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