I heard the quote on the Roger Hedgecock show yesterday. I don’t really think the woman meant to imply she thought freedom of religion was a bad thing. More like, “like it or not, freedom of religion was guaranteed by the founders.” There are plenty of real causes for outrage in the obamacare mandate business, but I don’t think this WaPo-ette’s commentary is one of them.
This is a must read in the WSJ today:
WSJ
WONDER LAND
FEBRUARY 9, 2012, 9:51 A.M. ET By DANIEL HENNINGER
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204136404577211280758375336.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
Transformers
The Catholic church learns the true meaning of Obama’s ‘transformative’ presidency. ...
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Why are we surprised? The world is not our friend.
“Maybe the Founders were wrong to guarantee free exercise of religion in the First Amendment but that is what they did and I don’t think we have to choose here.”
Henneberger was the scribe that was defending the Catholic Church, you should have heard mellisa {the other airhead} she wanted to bring back boiling oil for the Bishops.
One of the things that’s lost in this debate is that religious organizations are called by their missions to create charities that house and feed the poor, that heal the sick, that educate the young, that support wholesome recreational activities, and so on. The administration and IRS seek to deny that such activities are religious in nature. The IRS only exempts church expenses. The administration seeks to make a distinction between maintaining the aspect of the church that relates to the building and the sermons. A church is much more than that, and so long as it is not a commercial, for profit enterprise, there is no basis to exempt the church but not the hospital. They are all part of the same religious expression.
Wow. this editor and Justice Ginsberg and Obama and the left pretty much openly hate Christianity. At least in the old days these types pretended otherwise.