Posted on 05/17/2016 5:43:50 PM PDT by Lorianne
The Little Sisters of the Poor is a large Roman Catholic religious order for women, founded 177 years ago to care for the impoverished elderly as they approach their final rest. The Little Sisters make vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and hospitality. They view their physical care of the elderly as a spiritual calling. They serve in 31 countries and they are awesome.
They won a major religious battle yesterday. The Obama administration wanted to fine them $70 million per year for their religious objection to taking part in a government scheme to distribute birth control. Nine times the government rewrote regulations that would force the nuns to take part in the plan or be fined out of existence, each time claiming that the present version of regulations was as far as they could go to accommodate religious belief. Each time the sisters remained steadfast. Their story never changed. They didn’t weigh in on the government’s birth control plan except to say they wanted no part in it, due to their long-standing, sincerely held religious beliefs.
Yesterday the court ruled against the fines and vacated lower court rulings against the sisters. Since the Obama administration had already admitted to the court that it could find another way to accomplish its goals, the court simply asked lower courts to give them time to do just that.
It’s a big religious liberty win, even if the court didn’t weigh in on the question of whether the federal government could force the Little Sisters of the Poor to violate their consciences if there were no other way to accomplish the regulatory goals of the unpopular Obamacare legislation.
It’s not just the Washington Post that is hiding the name and story of the Little Sisters of the Poor. A reader noticed that David G. Savage of the Tribune News Service also hid their name. His piece, very sympathetic to the bureaucracy that seeks to limit religious freedom, waited until deep in the story to even mention the Little Sisters. Seriously, the piece reads like a press release from HHS if HHS had its press releases written by the savvy public relations teams funded by Planned Parenthood. He finally mentions the sisters in the 13th paragraph because he’s forced to put in a quote from their attorney and their attorney had the decency to name them.
Bammy and his buddies want to eliminate the Catholic Church and are willing to use the full coercive power of the federal government to do it.
Little Sisters of the Poor is a wonderful organization. They’re set up in the cafeteria at work once a month for donations and have info available about their work. I believe the Knights of Columbus assists with their legal fees. They did not waiver on this issue!
The ongoing persecution of Christians has only just begun. We won this skirmish, but the war wages and can be expected to heat up especially if the she devil gets in the White House.
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The top story in the print version of today’s Washington Post carries this headline: “Justices Return Contraceptive Case to Lower Courts.”
In the six and a half paragraphs explaining the decision on the front page, the plaintiff’s name goes unmentioned. When you flip to the jump, you’ve got to read down another five paragraphs to learn this is the case brought by the Little Sisters of the Poor.
The name of this order of nuns is perfectly pitched to make liberals/progressives squirm. Just as the Left used every possible locution to avoid using the term “partial-birth abortion” — the editors of the Post and others go to some considerable trouble to bury the name “Little Sisters of the Poor.”
A very special prize goes out to Adam Liptak of the New York Times. We can call it the Linda Greenhouse Award for Supreme Court Advocacy Presented As Reporting.
Liptak’s 22-paragraph, 1283-word story manages to mention the Little Sisters of the Poor not once. Not in the headline. Not in the lede. Not in any paragraph or sentence. Not in the captions, even though the captions had to work really hard to avoid mentioning them.
Our media hacks’ silence and covering-up on behalf of the regime is telling.
Bammy and his puppeteers want to eliminate all of Western Civilization.
Mollie Hemingway nails it again!
Read some of the comments...pretty shocking
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