It seems that our Christian president is going counter to everything Christian and all of Christianity to accommodate those promoting immorality. He is showing, once again, he is not on the side of morality, not on the side of God and standing with the spirit of antichrist. His fruits speak louder than his words.
It seems like they always announce things like this on a Friday when the weekend sort of kills any momentum for the story. Of course, I guess that didn’t work out well for them when they announced the HHS mandate initially.
And we have to ready to pay the price. The authorities in Jesus age crucified him. Should we expect better treatment? Obama is following in the steps of Pontius Pilate, wanting to wash his hand of the innocent blood he is spilling. He looks across the throng of feminists and liberals declaring that the blood of the children will be on their heads while he washes his hand in basin of Choice. It will avail him no more than it did his predecessor, Pilate.
And many of us fasted for days in this country while the healthcare bill was being readied to be shoved down our throats. Our prayers and sacrifices are offered to God, but we must remember that it is always in accordance with **His ** will and timing. There is something bigger at play here and God still hears our every prayer. We have become a stiff-necked people who have turned our back to Him with our idolatry, abortion and greed. He will act with us, just like He did the ancient Israelites (and remember He allowed their enemies to overcome them) but only for a time. When He says enough, it will BE enough. If anything, we should increase our prayers and penances.
Bumping this post in case anyone missed it! :tiphat:
Can we now see the danger of the new “social justice” whereby service to humanity, healthcare for all (as a “right” including abortion) and all the other nauseating kumbaya chants sound so nice, but do deadly harm in not looking to a godly fundamental truth, but only rely on human secular standards and agencies to do the job.And here’s what bothers me: the left-leaning Catholic Bishops and Sister Keehan from the Catholic Health Association will probably roll over if Obama gives them a broad-enough exemption, while leaving secular employers under Obamacare’s thumb. They did like the idea of Obamacare, they lobbied in favor of Obamacare, and they may yet betray the rest of us secular folks, if only they can get their special deal and special exemption under Obamacare. In other words, if I, L piperatus, a secular guy, happen to run a business (let’s say a pharmacy of my own, a restaurant, or similar small business) where I employ other people, Obamacare **will force me **to offer the very same immoral coverage (contraception, abortive drugs and devices, sterilization), free of charge, to my employees, that the Catholic universities, schools and hospitals will be exempted from.
And that, my friends, will be a most cynical betrayal of the rest of us, from our left-leaning Bishops and Catholic lobbyists (the secretariat at the USCCB, Sister Keehan, Catholic Healthcare Association, etc.) who did support Obamacare and will most probably support it again, as long as they get their own special exemption. How is this any better than Stalin’s special deal with Hitler, the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, which from the Russian part gave Hitler a free hand in attacking other countries in exchange for promising that he would leave Russia alone? Of course, in the end, Russia learned the hard way - Hitler did break his promise, and attacked Russia, after it attacked some other countries first. Our left-leaning Catholic bishops, the lobbyists at the USCCB, and others who supported Obamacare are also getting a lesson now about allying themselves with tyrants, just as the Russians got their lesson when Hitler attacked them. Still, I’m afraid, they haven’t learned their lesson, and will support Obamacare again, even at the expense of betraying the rest of us secular folks, if only they can get their special exemptions for their Catholic schools, hospitals, and charities…
This is my fear.
IF you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas. Never fails.
Keep in mind, also, that this so-called “accommodation” will consist of nothing less than yet another promise; the law and power will remain at the discretion of HHS. As quickly as Obama might pivot to accommodate, he can unprivot again later, just as he had before. What promise can a proven liar ever make that is sufficient?
The subject of the mandate is sterilization, abortion, contraceptives and the morning after pill. We would be forced to offer these things if we were to comply. It includes all of them. I’m pretty sure we’re not going to comply if it comes to that. This is what all the bishops’ statements say. Almost every single bishop in the country has come out with such a statement.
How the trivial accounting works is not the point. We know as well as they do that money is fungible.
Correct.
Yes, what I don’t understand is how the Obama accomodation really fixes this situation at all.
lifesitenews.com/news/white-house-religious-employers-wont-have-to-cover-birth-control-but-insura
Catechism of the Catholic Church:
It doesn’t, of course, but we are meant to think that it does. Or at least, they are hoping that enough Catholics will grasp this fig leaf so as to allow them to get back to more important things.
They didn’t change the mandate, they’re just fooling around with the language in the press to fool people. What a dishonest despicable trick they’re trying to pull.
It doesn’t fix anything. It’s a ruse, a trick. You’ll know when it’s fixed. They’ll come out with an actual change in the law and an apology like the Army did last week.