"We will soon learn," wrote Dr. Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, "just how much faith is left in faith-based institutions." Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's vicar on earth, has sportingly offered to maintain religious liberty for those institutions engaged in explicit religious instruction to a largely believing clientele. So we're not talking about mandatory condom dispensers next to the pulpit at St. Pat's not yet. But that is not what it means to be a Christian: The mission of a Catholic hospital is to minister to the sick. When a guy shows up in Emergency, bleeding all over the floor, the nurse does not first establish whether he is Episcopalian or Muslim; when an indigent is in line at the soup kitchen the volunteer does not pause the ladle until she has determined whether he is a card-carrying Papist. The government has redefined religion as equivalent to your Sunday best: You can take it out for an hour to go to church, but you gotta mothball it in the closet the rest of the week. So Catholic institutions cannot comply with Commissar Sebelius and still be in any meaningful sense Catholic.
To steal a line from Jethro Tull: "He's not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays."
That's the kind that Obama thinks defines religion and the first amendment.
Maybe his model isn't so much Henry VIII but Henry II. "Who will rid me of these turbulent priests?"
Steyn ping and read post 6 exerpt
Indeed. Thanks for the ping!
To quote Rev. Rick James,
She's not the kind of girl
That you take home to your muth-aaaa ...!
lol