HHS Mandate and the Catholic Church Taking Federal Money

[L_piperatus]

The government may view Kosher diets and circumcision as non- religious issues, but they are. One need only look as far as the Catechism to see that abortion, sterilization and birth control stand in opposition to Church law.

The freedom of religious expression is so sacred that the government should bend over backwards to avoid any possibility of trampling this right. I do believe that the Supreme Court will get this right if it ever gets there…At least I hope so.

I will add that contraception and chemical abortion are also professional issues and I (a pharmacist and PhD scientist by profession) am quite disturbed by the prospect of the government defining for me as “healthcare”, that which I regard, professionally, as “drug abuse”.

 

[St_Francis]

Yes, the Catholic hospitals will be forced to shut the door on these people or simply help them at the Church’s cost. We will be forced into the situation we should have always been in.

No, this is not the case, because the HHS mandate is not connected to “receiving” Federal funds. Even if a Catholic insitution had never received a dime from the government, they would still be subject to this mandate.

Moreover, this will apply to those Catholic employers who are in business as well. A Catholic business owner should not be forced to directly fund something like this either.