Ping!
Bishop Zubic of Pittsburgh wrote this letter in our diocesan paper
http://www.diopitt.org/hhs-delays-rule-contraceptive-coverage
I wrote this e-Mail reply
Dear Bishop Zubic,
Regarding your “To Hell with You” letter, you have advised us to contact our political representatives. I maintain that this is fruitless. They didn’t listen when they passed the Health Care Law and they won’t listen to us now.
So, instead, I am contacting you.
Use your authority as Bishop to EXCOMMUNICATE every Democrat Congress person who participated in the passage and/or support of this abominable legislation.
In particular, excommunicate our Pittsburgh Rep. Doyle. He was instrumental in convincing Bart Stupak and his “pro-life” group to support the law.
I am sorry to say, but until YOU use your authority to take the Church’s responsible action against these so-called “Catholic” (Democrat) Congressmen and women, your words will ring hollow and the evil legislation will become deeper and deeper ingrained into our society.
The article mentions that operations like Catholic charities and hospitals will be adversely affected by the new ruling—and might even have to shut down.
I would add that there are probably quite a few businesses of various kinds that are owned by Catholics. Why they hell should they be forced to violate their consciences and subsidize contraception and abortion—or go out of business.
It’s up to the owner to choose a health plan, and if the employees don’t like it, they can work somewhere else, with a health plan more to their liking. Mandating abortion as a “health benefit” is truly evil. Killing babies isn’t a health benefit.
Finally!
I wrote the same proposal here last week.
In the course of defying the rule, officials should invoke Obama’s own blatant refusal to obey federal law and the constitution.
The diocese as a legal institution and the parishes *might* be exempt under the law, but there's no way an exception for the schools will stand, unless they're entirely staffed by religious. One non-Catholic teacher who wants the "free" morning-after pill, tubal ligation, or vasectomy, and ZOT.
Good. Here's a bishop who cares for our salvation -- and his own.
Now, I am not a bishop, but in my humble opinion, a Catholic does not need a nod from his bishop to disobey a law written in the interest of death. Civil disobedience may yet restore this nation.