HHS Mandate - What should Catholics do?

[Matilda_Bennett]

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[Ridgerunner]

Follow the example of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Refuse to cooperate. Refuse to cooperate with evil. Refuse to be bullied by the HHS.

It may come to that, with the Little Sisters and others. But if the government fines them huge sums and then seizes their assets to satisfy the fines, how will they operate?

The answer is, they won’t be able to operate if the government takes it to the extreme of its legal powers. It could even seize the food in their refrigerators, refrigerators and all.

Maybe dioceses and parishes will come to their aid and provide facilities, food and other things needed for their mission without the Little Sisters ever owning even the food on their table.

It may come to that.

The HHS Mandate is no joke. Not for the Little Sisters, not for Catholic employers, not for individual Catholics. Many saw the wolf coming from a distance and didn’t think too much about it. But now its fangs are bared and it’s right here, right now. The only real question is how far the government wants to go in suppressing Catholic action in this country. The law imposes almost no constraints on its coercive power.

 

[JimG]

It may come to that, with the Little Sisters and others. But if the government fines them huge sums and then seizes their assets to satisfy the fines, how will they operate?

The answer is, they won’t be able to operate if the government takes it to the extreme of its legal powers. It could even seize the food in their refrigerators, refrigerators and all.

Maybe dioceses and parishes will come to their aid and provide facilities, food and other things needed for their mission without the Little Sisters ever owning even the food on their table.

It may come to that.

The HHS Mandate is no joke. Not for the Little Sisters, not for Catholic employers, not for individual Catholics. Many saw the wolf coming from a distance and didn’t think too much about it. But now its fangs are bared and it’s right here, right now. The only real question is how far the government wants to go in suppressing Catholic action in this country. The law imposes almost no constraints on its coercive power.

Yes, the government has the power, right now, to shut down religious institutions if it so chooses, by fining them out of existence. The Little Sisters of the Poor will be forced by government to cease accomplishing the corporal works of mercy. Even if the government backs off on this case, (although it shows no inclination to do so at present) the regulatory power is still there to suppress religion, at its sole discretion.

 

[JB_Dugan]

Catholics should organize, demonstrate, and do all in their power to elect righteous public officials who will repeal this horrible law know as ObamaCare…ASAP!!!

 

[Cojuanco]

Catholics should organize, demonstrate, and do all in their power to elect righteous public officials who will repeal this horrible law know as ObamaCare…ASAP!!!

The problem is not Obamacare per se. There are similar systems around the world, and most of them are not administered with the same virulent anticlerical policies as it is here in this country. Were the anticlerical, anti-Catholic, immoral executive decisions stopped, either voluntarily or by court order, there would be no fundamental social justice problem involved in supporting the system. The problem is not Obamacare, in other words - the problem is the man who oversees it. His own advisors told him that this was unconscionable, and he ignored their advice, because he values the (name removed by moderator)ut of his rich, snooty, anticlerical friends than actual, ordinary people, because ordinary people do not write thousand dollar campaign checks.

Don’t blame the ship, in other words, fot the helmsman’s sins.

 

[JB_Dugan]

The problem is not Obamacare per se. There are similar systems around the world, and most of them are not administered with the same virulent anticlerical policies as it is here in this country. Were the anticlerical, anti-Catholic, immoral executive decisions stopped, either voluntarily or by court order, there would be no fundamental social justice problem involved in supporting the system. The problem is not Obamacare, in other words - the problem is the man who oversees it. His own advisors told him that this was unconscionable, and he ignored their advice, because he values the (name removed by moderator)ut of his rich, snooty, anticlerical friends than actual, ordinary people, because ordinary people do not write thousand dollar campaign checks.

Don’t blame the ship, in other words, fot the helmsman’s sins.

I understand what you mean, Cojuanco, but I don’t agree.

This “ship” is intrinsically evil and should be torpedoed and sunk along with it’s helmsman.

 

[Captain_America]

I think we totally need to beetch to our senators.