Posted on 01/30/2012 3:24:20 PM PST by tobyhill
During church services on Sunday, Catholics around the country were read a blistering letter assailing the Obama administration for an "assault on religious liberty" in the form of a coming requirement that most church-linked organizations - among them hospitals, schools and universities - offer birth control coverage as part of their health care plans.
Despite strong lobbying from religious groups, the Health and Human Services Department announced earlier this month that most church-linked groups will not be exempt from the requirements - which also mandate that no co-pay be charged for contraceptive services - though they will have an extra year to comply beyond the August 1 deadline. Churches themselves (along with any other employer that is explicitly focused on offering a religious message, and which primarily employs those who believe in that message) are exempt from the requirement.
Religious groups were outraged by the decision - saying it forced employers at church-linked organizations to violate their conscience - and on Sunday Catholic leaders took their complaints directly to parishioners. As Business Insider reported, similar letters were read in churches around the country complaining that "the Obama Administration has cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation's first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty."
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But here is the bottom line. How many of these Catholics will vote once again for Barack Hussein Obama in 2012? True conviction would preclude any good Catholic from voting for this guy.
Obama was so arrogant that he didn’t get the age old message - Never, ever piss off the Pope.
Catholic leaders have been really dumb. They are trying to close the bard door, long after the horse has galloped away.
Yeah stuff I hear on the Borgia mini series on Showtime that Pope family almost Kill French King LOL!
Yeah stuff I hear on the Borgia mini series on Showtime that Pope family almost Kill French King LOL!
The Federal Government is just continuing its program of actively undermining the Bill of Rights.
Overheard at the White House: "How many divisions does the Pope have?"
Better late than never.
If you haven’t, check out the filthy comments that follow the column.
A not inconsiderable percentage of our countrymen would, if they could get away with it, happily send you, me, every freeper and every person of faith off to the labor camps.
What is your first language?
And 6 of 9 on the US Supreme Court which just handed Obama his as$ on a 9-0 ruling protecting First Amendment Rights for religious employers.
NOW their panties are in a bunch? After countless abortion supporting politicians sat in their pews and the church did essentially nothing!??
Wasn’t at our Mass on Sunday!!!! Wish it were!!
You know, it's NOT an "assault on religious liberty," it's an assault on the sanctity of life itself. Calling it merely a religious issue marginalizes it.
This is what happens when we do NOT have a constitutional government. It does what ever it wants and tells you to OBEY.
Then you obey or go to jail.
Be ready for more of the same if we do NOT fix the damage done by the Democrats the GOP-E and Obama. All of them are enemies of freedom.
about time
True, but it’s going to be much more painful now. Plus, they already taught many Catholic that loyalty to the Democrats is more important than loyalty to the Church.
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