Obama Postpones Forcing Catholic Institutions To Buy Birth Control Until After Election Day

Business Insider ^ | Jan. 20, 2012 | Michael Brendan Dougherty

[george76]

The Obama Administration has decided to allow one more year for religious groups to comply with a regulation that forces them to make an impossible choice: either provide health-insurance that includes coverage of birth control and some abortion-inducing drugs to their employees, or provide no health-insurance and face stiff and escalating fines from the government.

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Belmont Abbey College, has sued the Obama administration, and its president, Bill Thierfelder ... has said that he will close the school before he complies with the Obama administration's requirement that purchase health-insurance for its employees inclusive of contraception.

“This is a shameless attempt to kick the can down the road in an election year

[Nachum]

GOSH! I have to self censor so many of my posts anymore by NOT posting at all. Obama brings out the worst of me.

Join the club :)

[Maryhere]

European countries do not have the freedom we have had in the USA because of our constitution giving us freedom of religion. BO is tampering with our freedom of religion which is guaranteed in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. That’s the difference between us and Europe and the rest of the world.

[Maryhere]

European countries do not have the freedom we have had in the USA because of our constitution giving us freedom of religion. BO is tampering with our freedom of religion which is guaranteed in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. That’s the difference between us and Europe and the rest of the world.

[Maryhere]

European countries do not have the freedom we have had in the USA because of our constitution giving us freedom of religion. BO is tampering with our freedom of religion which is guaranteed in our Bill of Rights and Constitution. That’s the difference between us and Europe and the rest of the world.

[Category Four]

Apparently no one ever told this Empty Suit the folly of telegraphing one’s punches. 11 6 12 ... learn it. Live it. Love it.

[Monorprise]

Obama does not care that many religions including including the Major religion of Catholicism explicitly and expressly condemn contraception.

Forcing them to provide contraception is forcing them to abandon & betray their faith. I wholeheartedly agree that it better to close down or be subjected to even brutal penlites then to give up faith.

Christians have been persecuted like this before by lawless goverment. Let us hope that we can show the same devoted defiance in defense of our faith that our for-bearers did.

[Monorprise]

“”Every single action taken by the POSOTUS in made with an eye on the election.”

Is this “leadership” or “job security panic”?”

It has got to be blind ideology. As the catholic church has already noted, your not a Catholic if you vote for men who impose such things upon your countrymen.

A large share of Obama’s base is made up of Catholics. This naked attack upon the established doctrine of the Faith, Forcing Catholics to go against their own Faith cannot go unnoticed. It deserved the STRONGEST condemnation by all American Constitutionalists & Catholics alike!

Something is very wrong with Obama if he doesn’t realize this.

[AliVeritas]

Do you have a link for that... from him?

[Mears]

bfl

[Tullius]

Do you have a link for that... from him?

From whom? Obama? Benedikt? I doubt any of them runs his personal blog.

Let me put it differently: Basically, in a mandated health care system the type and quality of health care is regulated by and accounted to the government. The Church can consider it like any other kind of tax it has to pay for its employees.

The Church's main focus in such things is asking if they interfere with its primary mission: the pronouncement and propagation of the faith. If it does (like, say, the involvement of its social services in some countries in mandatory abortion counseling) then it gets pretty hash pretty fast.

But paying a fraction of its employee's salaries into this or that state mandated institution doesn't rise to that level. In the end it's not so much different from any other tax. Render unto Caesar - you know the drill.