U.S. Bishops Say New Mandate Proposals Fail to Solve Problems

[Catholic_Press]

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However, the bishops cautioned that these proposals do nothing to change the administration’s narrow “test for deciding which organizations are ‘religious enough’ to warrant an exemption from the mandate.”

Instead, the new recommendations deal with religious organizations that do not qualify for the exemption and are therefore subject to the mandate.

The bishops reaffirmed their stance that “the government has no place defining religion and religious ministry” and that the current attempt to do so is unconstitutional.

“So no matter what new rules may be proposed to apply this distinction, it remains radically flawed,” they said…

Amen. I’m praying for SCOTUS to overturn the whole boondoggle.

 

[JimG]

Here is Archbishop Chaput’s statement about the fake compromise:

archphila.org/archbishop-chaput/statements/weeklycolumn6.pdf

“In short, the HHS mandate is coercive and deeply troubling in its implications for the rights of conscience. Nor is this accidental. The administration, despite the good will it has enjoyed from many Catholics, has taken a path that it knows to be unnecessary and knows to be hostile to Catholic belief.”