Not just "research grants"....think MediCare and MediCaid.
Since when does a payer determine what services a company provides? It’s like going to a steak house and demanding tofu. You want tofu, fine, go somewhere else, we don’t sell it.
Accepting federal money is the rope by which it hangs public schools, construction, religious hospitals - even entire states. I think churches, too, are going to have to jettison their tax exempt status if they want to continue their theological independence.
The tentacles of the federal government are long and strong once we accept the money. States, businesses, and churches need to cut their monetary ties to the feds.
there's the kicker huh?
Will they close down then?
THAT’s why you want the federal government out of EVERYTHING
First they give you money, then they threaten to take it away if you dont do what they say.
Its a mob protection racket on steroids
Also keep an eye open for young christian teenage women being required to do the community service in abortion clinics.......
One thing the left knows without a doubt, conservatives are cowards and will do absolutely nothing to stop what is going on, all you hear is outrage, I said outrage at what is happening.
Let me tell you what Indira Ghandi said when a company that was being financed by the government refused to do what the government directed; “IF I’M FEEDING THE BIRD, THAT BIRD IS GOING TO SING MY SONG”. This is what happens when any company takes “GOVERNMENT” money. You cannot choose which rule you will obey and which ones you will not. Who did they think they are, OBAMA? Only Obama can pick and choose which law or rule he will follow and which ones he will not. You cannot make a deal with “EVIL”, anytime and any place. “EVIL” will always win. They have 2 choices,these Catholic hospitals, either not take government money, and live by their own rules, or take government money and do as the government directed.
Easy solution.
Tell the feds to shove their “funds” up their collective smelly Obamas.
Sooner or later, we’ve just got to dump the federal government.
It is beyond corrupt, and is current manned and womaned by inept sleazebags with the collective IQ of a CNN reporter.
First...do no harm!
Once again....
THANK YOU CATHOLIC BISHOPS for your gutless equivocating during the 2012 Presidential Election.
Deny any abortions at any stage at their hospitals. If those docs can’t perform abortions for any reason at any stage then the same thing is accomplished. I’m no legal expert so someo ne correct me if I’m wrong.
I imagine that there are a large amount of religious based hospitals - the government needs them as much as they need the government. Imagine if these faith based hospitals were all to announce their closure due to their religious liberties being violated.
If you fail to use the leverage you have then they fail themselves!
Would seem to be quite simple if we were still operating under a Constitution. The “First Amendment” supersedes a mere Federal law. Period!
And by the way, seeing as the mythical “right to abortion” was simply a “right to privacy” the Feds have stepped on their own dicks with all the unconstitutional, 4th amendment violating, anti-privacy spying.
When will we develop the spine to hit the reset button on this government?
They are forcing people to choose between their job and their religion.
But they have a different standard for the death cult. All death cultists can enjoy jobs, exemption from obamacare, and practice their uncivilized religion all the while showering hate on Christians and Jews.
You can’t serve two masters. The Catholic church will have to choose sooner or later. This is just the first round; eventually the government will coerce churches to perform homosexual “weddings” and Christian hospitals to perform abortions.
Sadly, J. B. Van Hollen is proving himself to be no friend of conservatives. He is just an empty suit.
I don’t get this at all