Got Monks? Get the Monks!

Townhall.com ^ | 10/29/2009 | Ken Blackwell

[Servant of the Cross]

President Obama’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) seems determined to go after a small Catholic college in North Carolina. Readers of First Things, the thoughtful journal founded by Rev. Richard Neuhaus, are familiar with the funny ads regularly run by Belmont Abbey. “Got Monks?” reads the white-on-black ad that encourages serious young Catholics to consider a college where the Benedictine monks seek God and where the students seek truth.

But Obama’s EEOC obviously reads that ad as an invitation to “get the monks.” The EEOC’s district office in Charlotte, N.C., is demanding that Belmont Abbey cease and desist violating Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. If you thought that act was about ending racial and sex discrimination, you would be right. If you thought that unelected bureaucrats could not use that law as a sledgehammer to threaten religious schools, you would be naïve.

What the EEOC is complaining of is Belmont Abbey’s practice of not providing abortion-inducing contraceptives to their employees in their health insurance plan.

But Belmont Abbey is a Catholic institution, one that prides itself on its adherence to Catholic teaching. The college maintains that it cannot be guilty of discriminating against female employees since it does not provide any form of contraceptives to its all-male body of monks, or to its lay male employees. How can this be sex discrimination? (snip) ...

[Servant of the Cross]

First Amendment of the Constitution of The United States of America

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Only the beginning. This administration is doing all it can to reward the fanatical man-haters who helped get it into office. The Catholic Church is the target.

[freekitty]

Obama needs to go.

[Tax-chick]

The title is cute, but it’s really the lay president of Belmont Abbey College who’s responsible for the change in policy. He’s a terrific man.

My youngest daughter wants to go to Belmont; good thing she’s only 9, so we have years to save up the tuition and drill her on the SAT!

[6SJ7]

Belmont Abbey’s slogan; “Got Monks?”

Obama Administration slogan; “Got Thugs?”

[livius]

I’m just waiting now for Bambi and the radical leftists to use the new “anti-gay hate crimes” law (which they sneaked through as a rider to the defense bill) to prevent the Catholic Church and other orthodox Christian churches from speaking against homosexuality or attempting to get homosexuals out of teaching or other jobs in their institutions.

[Servant of the Cross]

Belmont Abbey College: That In All Things God May Be Glorified

Dr. William K. Thierfelder, President, has declared that he would prefer to close the school rather than go against the Catholic Church’s most fundamental beliefs.

[Oratam]

If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

[LonePalm]

May the Lord Bless and Keep Barack 0bama... far away from us.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Tax-chick]

Thanks, I couldn’t remember how to spell his name!

[Servant of the Cross]

Good one!

Attorney General Eric Holder unilaterally pardoned Philadelphia New Black Panthers that the DOJ had won default judgments against.

[Prospero]

That joker better not station his self between me and my voting booth, if he knows what’s good for him. One of us will be scared for life, and it won’t be me.