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Jeanne_S
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This is just the tip of the iceberg.As more and more Catholic/Christain entities are forced to close their doors rather than comply with the evil of Obama’s Not Affordable Care Act!
Moreover,as Catholic individuals,how will this coercion impact us? I,for one refuse to comply with this nightmare piece of legislation.I have no desire to be complicit in providing other women with contraception,abortions,in intro fertilization.
Moreover,as Catholic individuals,how will this coercion impact us? I,for one refuse to comply with this nightmare piece of legislation.I have no desire to be complicit in providing other women with contraception,abortions,in intro fertilization.
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JimG
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It’s rather astonishing that the HHS and this administration have taken the position that the Little Sisters of the Poor, EWTN, and Ave Maria University, along with other Catholic institutions, are not religious enough to qualify for an exemption from the mandate to provide for contraception, abortion inducing drugs, and sterilization, in their health insurance policies.
Limiting religious liberty only to churches is bad enough. According to HHS, Catholic hospitals, schools, charities, and other institutions, must either go against their religion or go out of business, or pay horrendous fines. That’s bad enough. To me, it’s also bad that religious liberty is effectively removed from individuals—individuals who own businesses and who must now either reject their religion or their business.
That is making all persons holding religious beliefs into second class citizens with no religious liberty.
Limiting religious liberty only to churches is bad enough. According to HHS, Catholic hospitals, schools, charities, and other institutions, must either go against their religion or go out of business, or pay horrendous fines. That’s bad enough. To me, it’s also bad that religious liberty is effectively removed from individuals—individuals who own businesses and who must now either reject their religion or their business.
That is making all persons holding religious beliefs into second class citizens with no religious liberty.
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Cojuanco
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The problem is that for Obama, and a lot of American Protestants like him (and Republicans are not exempt from this either!), such works are not “essential to religion”. Religion is seen as something in the private, not the public sphere, and defninitely not something which should be anything less than a support to the civic authority. This, of course, is contrary to the Catholic Weltanschauung, which has been about both faith and works. This is to some extent the continuation of the Thirty Years’ War.
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