Archbishop: Obama Needs To Stop 'Intruding Into Internal Life Of Church'

JimG · Mar 20, 2012

I suppose it’s off-topic, but having seen the news about personnel changes in the NFL, I wondered if under the HHS mandate the NFL would have to provide free contraception coverage to all the players.

It would make as much sense as mandate free contraception coverage for an order of monastic nuns, but one size fits all for the HHS, it seems.

_Abyssinia · Mar 20, 2012

Catholic students from GWU protesting outside White House for Religious freedom

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Winning the Mandate Debate

ncregister.com/daily-news/winning-the-mandate-debate1
Notable Speakers to Address March 23 Rallies

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_Abyssinia · Mar 21, 2012

Washington, D.C. Joins with 128 Cities in Sponsoring Rallies to Support Religious Freedom and Stand Against President Obama’s Unjust and Immoral HHS Mandates on Faith Institutions

christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=19255
**Hoyer: ‘Free Sterilization? I Don’t Know Anything About Free Sterilization’ **

cnsnews.com/news/article/hoyer-free-sterilization-i-don-t-know-anything-about-free-sterilization
Catholics and Voting Pro-Life: Social Justice Begins in the Womb

Catholics make up about one quarter of the American electorate, and the majority of the Catholic vote has gone to the winner in every presidential election since 1972. With that said, conservatives — whether they like it or not — will have to engage the concept of “social justice” if they wish to earn the sizable Catholic vote in November 2012.

lifenews.com/2012/03/21/catholics-and-voting-pro-life-social-justice-begins-in-the-womb
HHS Mandate Debate Will Affect Top 2012 Senate Races

lifenews.com/2012/03/20/hhs-mandate-debate-will-affect-top-2012-senate-races
Obama HHS Mandate Not Just a Violation of Religious Liberty

lifenews.com/2012/03/21/obama-hhs-mandate-not-just-a-violation-of-religious-liberty

_Abyssinia · Mar 21, 2012

Catholic Colleges Upset by HHS Rule Requiring Student Health Plans to Comply With Mandate

ncregister.com/daily-news/catholic-colleges-upset-by-hhs-rule-requiring-student-health-plans-to-compl
Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers rebukes the purported War on women

youtube.com/watch?v=loYiqTIm5rA
Church-State Separation and the Obama Mandate

*A mistaken understanding of the separation of church and state has shaped the debate over the contraception mandate. *

catholicworldreport.com/Item/1211/churchstate_separation_and_the_obama_mandate.aspx
Hundreds to Attend Family Institute of Connecticut’s Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally March 23rd in Hartford

christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=19262

mabelm · Mar 22, 2012

Is it Pope Obama? He must think so.

qui_est_ce · Mar 22, 2012

mabelm said:
Is it Pope Obama? He must think so.

Welcome!

_Abyssinia · Mar 22, 2012

**Write Your Own HHS Slogan! **

ncregister.com/blog/matthew-archbold/write-your-own-hhs-slogan
State of Alabama Joins EWTN’s Legal Challenge Against HHS Mandate

ncregister.com/daily-news/state-of-alabama-joins-ewtns-legal-challenge-against-hhs-mandate
**State of Alabama Joins EWTN Lawsuit **

ncregister.com/blog/tim-drake/state-of-alabama-joins-ewtn-lawsuit
Issa requests docs from HHS on Obamacare grantees violating lobbying prohibitions

dailycaller.com/2012/03/21/issa-requests-docs-from-hhs-on-obamacare-grantees-violating-lobbying-prohibitions/#ixzz1priTcPUA
OBAMA’S CATHOLIC PROBLEM

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the findings of a new survey published by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life:

Only 35 percent of the American people think the Democratic Party is “friendly to religion,” while 54 percent say the Republicans are. When asked specifically about the Obama administration, 39 percent see it as “friendly,” and 23 percent see it as “unfriendly.” But in 2009, only 17 percent said the administration was “unfriendly to religion.”

The big problem for Obama is with Catholics, especially white Catholics. The percent of Catholics who say the administration is “unfriendly to religion” has jumped in the past three years from 15 percent to 25 percent. Among white Catholics, the percent who say the administration is “unfriendly” has gone from 17 percent to 31 percent.

It is not hard to fathom why the Obama administration is having a hard time with Catholics. After all, it is trying to force its secular agenda down their throat by making those who work in Catholic non-profit groups pay for abortion-inducing drugs in their insurance premiums.

Moreover, the administration recently denied funding to a Catholic social service agency that helps women and children merely because it is pro-life. Obama has appointed people such as Kathleen Sebelius to his cabinet, even though she has been at war with the Catholic Church for decades. He tried to get a big post for a woman who once worked on an ACLU lawsuit trying to strip the Catholic Church of its tax-exempt status. He hosted a forum for some of the biggest Catholic bashers in the nation when he welcomed the Secular Coalition for America in 2010. He has opposed school choice—vouchers for indigent parents to send their children to a parochial school—while funding the “choice” of aborting their babies. The list is endless.

Everyone knows that Protestants vote Republican and Jews vote Democrat. It’s Catholics who are up for grabs.

catholicleague.org/obamas-catholic-problem/
Pro-Life Women Doctors Respond to Pro-Abortion Sens on Mandate

lifenews.com/2012/03/22/pro-life-women-doctors-respond-to-pro-abortion-sens-on-mandate/
Women and Religious Liberty

The HHS mandate is a fundamental assault on our constitutional rights.

An NRO Interview

nationalreview.com/articles/294015/women-and-religious-liberty-interview
**The Religious Freedom Rally: My Predictions **

ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/the-religious-freedom-rally-my-predictions
Faith Organizations to Encircle Supreme Court Friday at Noon

christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=19273

_Abyssinia · Mar 22, 2012

Obamacare Forces Woman to Sacrifice Her Health

Stacy Molai is no stranger to suffering. She has suffered more than half of her life from Crohn’s disease—she was diagnosed at 13 and is now 31. She’s already had four surgeries and takes countless medications each month.

Now, she faces additional suffering, which she feels, is at the hands of the U.S. Government.

Molai, a registered nurse, now serving as a Catholic missionary, is vowing to risk her health—and quite possibly her life—if the HHS mandate is not overturned by the Supreme Court. That mandate requires all insurance companies to cover abortions, the morning-after pill and contraceptives.

thereveredreview.com/2012/trr-exclusive-obamacare-forces-woman-to-sacrifice-her-health/

_Abyssinia · Mar 22, 2012

Los Angeles Joins Nationwide Rally Against the HHS Mandate Friday, March 23rd

christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=19278
21 Catholic Bishops Speaking at Rallies Tomorrow

standupforreligiousfreedom.com/2012/bishops-2/#comments

JimG · Mar 22, 2012

“President Obama’s mandate will prove harmful to women’s health and to the practice of medicine. It must be rescinded immediately.

Maricela P. Moffitt, M.D., M.P.H., President, Catholic Medical Association Mary Keen, M.D., M.R.M. Rebecca Peck, M.D. Kathleen M. Raviele, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., Past President, Catholic Medical Association Laura G. Reilly, M.D., A.B.P.N.
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_Abyssinia · Mar 23, 2012

The thing that frightens our opponents most’ is ‘an evangelical-Catholic alliance’

Politicians usually calculate every action to maximize their popularity among future voters, especially during an election year. But a prominent leader of the nation’s second largest denomination says President Barack Obama’s HHS mandate has the potential to unite Catholics and Protestants into a coalition that will turn him out of office in November.

lifesitenews.com/news/the-thing-that-frightens-our-opponents-most-is-an-evangelical-catholic-alli
**Contraception vs. Blood Transfusions **

ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/cont/?utm_source=dlvr.it
**140 Cities Expected to See Religious Freedom Rallies Today **

ncregister.com/daily-news/citizens-prepare-to-rally-for-religious-freedom-across-the-u.s
Print out copies of Becket Fund petition for Religious freedom rally

becketfund.org/speakupmarch23

Tigg · Mar 23, 2012

_Abyssinia said:
**The Religious Freedom Rally: My Predictions **

ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/the-religious-freedom-rally-my-predictions

This one’s a scream:

But I won’t have to be there to know how it’ll go down.

There will be a huge crowd of attractive young women, dressed stylishly, with beaming, joyful faces, and holding signs with clever and incisive slogans showing that they don’t consider fertility to be a disease, that they are pro-choice when it comes to choosing whether to fund abortion, and that they have read the Bill of Rights recently.

There will also be one fat guy with greasy, grey hair and a scaly neck and his shirt buttoned wrong, kneeling on the sidewalk and wearing a sign that says “PRASERVE THE PATRIARCKY” on one side and “COMMUNION ON THE TONGUE” on the other side. The Huffington Post will take so many pictures of him, their camera batteries will fall out.

At some point, a fourteen-year-old girl will trip over her shoelaces, causing two of her friends to stumble slightly and giggle a little bit. This incident will occur within 1,000 feet of a Planned Parenthood facility. All three girls and their parents will be arrested and detained overnight for criminal threatening. Joy Behar will become hysterical on live TV will report that an anti-choice terrorist organization was discovered, and will use the girls’ mug shots as evidence that homeschooling should be illegal.

I do believe she’s right…after all, our pro-life group in front of PP is joined every Saturday by the OWS protestors and dubious others promoting the legalization of pot. (We hope the obvious signs of our rosaries tell passers-by just who’s who, but you just can never tell!!)

_Abyssinia · Mar 23, 2012

_Abyssinia · Mar 23, 2012

Thousands of Pro-Life Advocates Rally for Religious Freedom

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Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rallies Say Tyranny Won’t Stand

lifenews.com/2012/03/23/stand-up-for-religious-freedom-rallies-say-tyranny-wont-stand/
Catholic Diocese of Wichita photos from religious freedom rally

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PhotoPost: Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rallies Nationwide!

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Cardinal Dolon statement on HHS mandate and religious freedom rallies

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PHOTOS: ‘This is tyranny’: tens of thousands decry HHS mandate in 146 nationwide protests

lifesitenews.com/news/large-crowds-turn-out-to-protest-obama-mandate-in-150-rallies-across-u.s
**Americans Rally for Religious Freedom **

ncregister.com/daily-news/americans-rally-for-religious-freedom
Protests Against HHS Abortifacient Mandate in 140 Cities; Will Media Cover?

newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2012/03/23/protests-against-hhs-abortifacient-mandate-140-cities-will-media-cove

_Abyssinia · Mar 24, 2012

What’s Missing from Religious Liberty Polling

realclearreligion.org/articles/2012/03/21/whats_missing_from_religious_liberty_polling_106452.html
Some thoughts for John Breen from John O’Callaghan, Thomist, on “health”, etc.

mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2012/03/some-thoughts-for-john-breen-from-john-ocallaghan-thomist-on-health-etc.html
Mitt Romney on the Second Anniversary of Obamacare, HHS Mandate

catholicvote.org/discuss/index.php?p=28421
The 4 Best Legal Arguments Against ObamaCare

reason.com/archives/2012/03/24/4-best-legal-arguments-against-obamacare

_Abyssinia · Mar 24, 2012

Cardinal Dolan stresses Catholic commitment to women’s health care

ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/US.php?id=5102#ixzz1q4oKwVew

_Abyssinia · Mar 25, 2012

Faith and Pro-Life Organizations to ‘Encircle’ the Supreme Court in Prayer on the Eve of Historic Health Care Oral Arguments

christiannewswire.com/index.php?module=releases&task=view&releaseID=19286
Contraception mandate violates federal law, say legal experts

catholicnewsagency.com/news/contraception-mandate-violates-federal-law-say-legal-experts

Trader · Mar 25, 2012

_Abyssinia said:
Stand up for religious freedom Rally photos:

Fort Wayne, Indiana: facebook.com/photo.php?pid=9241184&l=7a6350a93d&id=34701792581

I attended the rally in Fort Wayne, and this picture is definitely not the Fort Wayne Rally. You might find a local editorial interesting and it has some actual pictures:

fortwayne.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120323/NEWS/320122480/1024/EDITORIAL

We had about 350 people in a light rain that turned heavy shortly after the rally ended. I have some random personal observations:

You meet some really nice people at pro-life rallies. I brought some extra umbrellas with me and gave them to two little old ladies at the rally. They thanked me and used them to keep their grandchildren dry, while they still got wet. I am not sure that would happen at a pro-choice rally.
Our rally was sponsored by Allen County Right to Life and our local Catholic Radio Station, Redeemer Radio, 1450 AM. They did a really good job of finding a diverse collections of speakers with many different reasons and styles to denounce the HHS mandate. Some of the more memorable moments included:

An elderly African-American retired Marine had an obvious pain in his voice when he explained that when he took the oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” he never dreamed he would be talking about the second part in his lifetime, or that one of the enemies of the Constitution would be the Commander-in-Chief.

The most memorable sound bite came from a female attorney channelling Ronald Reagan. After explaining the many ways that the mandate could be found unconstitutional, she forcefully proclaimed, “Mister Obama, tear up this mandate.”

The rally was not all Catholics. We had a lot of Lutheran participants, too. One speaker was a former social worker who quit a state job because she realized she could not give poor people what they really needed as a state employee. She enrolled at the local Lutheran seminary in their deaconess program and now is incensed that the President is telling her she can only minister to Lutherans or lose an exemption to the mandate. Just like her Catholic friends she finds her religion and the works of mercy to be inseparable.

_Abyssinia · Mar 26, 2012

**The HHS Mandate: Is the Battle About Religious Freedom or Contraception? **

ncregister.com/daily-news/the-hhs-mandate-is-the-battle-about-religious-freedom-or-contraception
Clergy to Convene Emergency Meeting Today on Obama Insurance Mandate

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_Abyssinia · Mar 26, 2012

Congresswoman: ‘It Is My Sworn Duty to Fight’ Obama’s Attack on Religious Freedom

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Download Stop HHS flyers and distribute in your community

stophhs.com/getinvolved/resources/#paper
Rev. Rob Shenck for Catholics, Evangelicals completely disagree with those supporting this unconstitutional law

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