Posted on 02/10/2012 10:28:01 AM PST by unique1
WASHINGTON, February 10, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The White House announced today that, instead of forcing religious employers to pay for birth control, it will force insurance companies to offer the drugs free of charge to all women, no matter where they work.
The plan, touted as a concession to freedom of religion and conscience, was immediately denounced by pro-life Rep. Chris Smith. The so-called new policy is the discredited old policy, dressed up to look like something else,. said Smith. .It remains a serious violation of religious freedom. Only the most naï or gullible would accept this as a change in policy.
The White House Fact Sheet is riddled with doublespeak and contradiction, Smith continued. It states, for example, that religious employers will not have to pay for abortion pills, sterilization and contraception, but their insurance companies will. Who pays for the insurance policy? The religious employer.
Since you have raised the church and state separation issue, you need to answer the question why does a hospital, although catholic, which serves the general public have a right to question someone who wishes to get free contraception provided by their insurance company?
I think the statement was 99% of women will/have? use(d) contraception some time during their adult life.
Soon.
What do you mean, and what is its relevance?
People have been noticing this for years. There are days when his lips and eyelids are literally extremely blue where even makeup won’t cover them.
They ought to be screaming to high heaven for this Anti-Christ's impeachment.
They do not have a right to question them. But they do have a right to decline to provide a service which is against their religious beliefs.
To steal a few lines from Krauthammer's latest column:
Catholic soup kitchens do not demand religious IDs from either the hungry they feed or the custodians they employ. Catholic charities and hospitals even Catholic schools do not turn away Hindu or Jew.
Just like Muslims restaurants don't serve pork and Hindu restaurants don't serve beef, Catholic organizations don't provide contraception or abortions.
when the time is right, there will be civil unrest
I don’t know if you truly are incapable of “getting it”, or you’re a DU plant, or what?
Regardless of who raised which issue, the broader, deeper issue is this:
Obama claimed the RIGHT, under Obamacare, to tell Catholic hospitals and similar institutions that they must provide contraceptives and morning after pills...meaning abortion by pill...etc, free of charge to their workers.
When that was massively opposed, Obama then claimed the RIGHT, under Obamacare, to tell insurance providers that they must provide contraceptives and morning after pills etc, free of charge to the workers at Catholic hospitals and similar institutions.
What is stopping a janitor at the hospital from getting his or her own stuff?
Why is Obama free to mandate that everyone in AMerica be given free stuff, of this nature or any other.
Why is he trampling on religious freedom and business freedom.
Where is the Constitutional authority?
WHen you answer that question...and answer why you don’t seem to care about it...maybe you’ll get an attempt to answer your IRRELEVANT one.
That pic was lifted from here http://apps.facebook.com/conservativeappb/pages/69-prochoice
“I think that the insurance companies agreed to this because it costs a lot less to provide free contraception than it does to pay for maternity care, delivery, and family medical care after a child is born.”
First, if that’s not coercion, I don’t know what is. Second, it’s abominable social policy. Third, we haven’t actually heard from the health care insurance industry on this—not that they’ll have any say in what the uberadministrators decide.
“I have a serious problem with any man/religion that says I cannot plan when I will bear children . . . “
Who’s forcing you to obey Catholic Church teachings? This isn’t about the issue of birth-control; it’s about forcing any religion, despite the protection of the first amendment, to subvert its own teachings to the whims of government. Don’t forget, a government that can coerce a religion to offer birth-control can also coerce it to offer abortion. Or to cut off the birth-control subsidies and triple the birth-subsidies.
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Natural family planning is pretty neat.
You’re so right! These figures are from ether. Darn straight the polls aren’t accurate. More to the point, the citers of these polls are either clueless or lying.
Yet Czar Kathleen tossed them off in her press conference as if they mattered and never qualified them.
We don’t go to Jewish delis to buy bacon. And we don’t expect Disneyworld to offer X-rated movies. Branding’s okay and reliable only when it has nothing to do with religion?
It certainly is. And if Sebelius is including this method among her “99% of Catholics use it” statement, she’s as intellectually dishonest as she is amoral.
The devil has been trying this trick ever since the Garden.
The devil has been trying this trick ever since the Garden.
Now, that's very insightful with the devil in this case thinking that we are all complete fools, except those that actually think that there is a free lunch.
The beauty of this is dictator Obama has now ruled what he will allow and what he will not. All of the idiots that voted for his hope and change bullshit see him for what he is. Sorry Obama, Valerie has thrown you under the bus.
Good Job Val. You couldn’t have made it any clearer.
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