https://freerepublic.com/tag/excommunicatenow/ en-us Sat, 1 Dec 2012 21:04:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2964753/posts House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is Catholic, indicated on Friday that she supports forcing St. Mary’s Medical Center, the oldest continuously operating hospital in her San Francisco-based congressional district, to provide health plans to its workers that cover sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs free of charge even though the Catholic faith says this Catholic hospital may not do so because these things are intrinsically immoral. “We are committed to furthering the healing ministry of Jesus,” says the hospital's mission statement. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius—who, like Pelosi, is Catholic—issued the sterilization-contraception-abortifacient mandate as a regulation under... Cybercast News Service https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2964753/posts#comment Sat, 1 Dec 2012 21:04:33 GMT