They should post this in all of their Hospitals, Soup Kitchens, etc that because of President Obama, this is what we have to do starting on this date. These places serve many people, and I bet Obama would back track immediately.
But the church won't, because they don't want to be seen as uncaring or not compassionate, which I completely understand. But it's time to play hardball, Catholic church, my church, because the POTUS is using your caring nature against you to force you to give up your religious conscience and fund Abortion. Call his bluff.
And if anyone thinks I'm telling my church to lie, because they'd never close their hospitals or stop helping the poor, maybe I am. But I'd rather lie then fund abortion because Obama says so.
I believe the Obama thing will be shot down by the SC on all manner of grounds, and am thankful that in this case sit five Catholics on the Court, four who get the picture on EXACTLY what is going on here with regard to the impact on Catholic Dogma, Doctrine, Tradition and Practice.
With that said, the mandate is patently unconstitutional by any reading of the Constitution and a reader would not even have to be religious to see that.
I believe you are right and the Church, with eyes wide open, is set to encourage if necessary, civil disobedience if the measures that affect religious liberty are not addressed and overturned. We received that directive in our church bulletin at Mass two Sundays ago.
FORTNIGHT begins June 21 through July Fourth. Prayer & Fasting & meetings and gatherings throughout all diocesees.
The Church will will not give an inch and see forced closings rather than elective closings of hospitals and schools and colleges. Surely, the government will back off, rather than round up and arrest a million Catholics who will neither close nor pay fines in hundreds of thousands PER DAY.
GOD, be with us.