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February 4th, 2012%
Read the original post: On Obama’s Unwinnable Battle Against Religious Liberty
What a crazy week it has been, between the Obamacare/HHS mandate, over 150 bishops speaking out against it , and the battle between Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood. A great many people are visiting this site today because of my comments on the Komen situation — my most recent thoughts on that can be found here (ongoing updates can be found at my twitter page @AmericanPapist — the story is very fast moving and complex). But I don’t want to lose track of the “bigger” story – Obama’s war against religious liberty in this country and the Catholic effort to win this war definitively. Peggy Noonan calls this a “battle the President can’t win” in her syndicated column today for the Wall Street Journal and says “President Obama just may have lost the election” because, in going after the religious liberty of Catholics, he has “awakened a sleeping giant”: If [Catholics] stay strong and fight, they will win. This is in fact a potentially unifying moment for American Catholics, long split left, right and center. Catholic conservatives will immediately and fully oppose the administration’s decision. But Catholic liberals, who feel embarrassed and undercut, have also come out in opposition. …
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February 4th, 2012%
Go directly to: Obama mandate inverts Jefferson’s notion of religious freedom, says columnist
Francis Beckwith argues that the Obama administration’s mandate for contraceptive coverage betrays a radical approach to religious freedom, and one fundamentally at odds with the original ……
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February 4th, 2012%
Read the full article here: AP story summarizes HHS-mandate debate
For those just catching up with the dispute between the Obama administration and the Catholic hierarchy, an AP story accurately sketches the ……
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February 4th, 2012%
Go directly to: Romney rips Obama on HHS mandate; critics rip Romney
In an editorial column for the Washington Examiner, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has denounced the Obama administration for requiring Catholic institutions to provide ……
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February 4th, 2012%
Go here to see the original: Sen. Rubio introduces bill to reverse Obama birth control mandate
by Kathleen Gilbert WASHINGTON, February 3, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a bill on Monday to rebut the threat to religious organizations presented by the Obama administration mandate that virtually all health insurers must provide sterilizations and abortifacient birth control free… …
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February 4th, 2012%
Original post: Mitt Romney Writes Op-Ed Against HHS Mandate
By EWTN NEWS/CNA | Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pledged to overturn the HHS contraception mandate that he says takes “particular aim” at Catholics. “I stand with the Catholic bishops and all religious organizations in their strenuous objection to this liberty- and conscience-stifling regulation,” Romney wrote in a Feb. 3 Washington Examiner column titled “President Obama vs. Religious Liberty.” If … …
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February 4th, 2012%
Go directly to: Romney pledges to eliminate HHS mandate on ‘day one’ of presidency
Washington D.C., Feb 3, 2012 / 01:48 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has pledged to overturn the HHS contraception mandate that he says takes “particular aim” at Catholics. “I stand with the Catholic bishops and all religious organizations in their strenuous objection to this liberty- and conscience-stifling regulation,” Romney wrote in a Feb. 3 Washington Examiner column titled “President Obama
February 3rd, 2012%
Read more: Mitt Romney vs. Obama Administration’s War on Religious Liberty
Mitt Romney has long appreciated the growing threats against religious liberty in our midst. He faced them as governor of Massachusetts, as the conscience rights of Catholic Charities’ adoption work was challenged. He talked about them in a major speech in his last campaign for the GOP nomination. Today in an oped , he takes on these threats directly. This, it seems to me, is the money graph: It is a prerequisite to the preservation of our liberty that our government not dictate to religious institutions the principles by which they are to carry out their charitable and divine mission. Religious liberty and freedom of conscience flow from the common conviction that it is freedom not coercion that exalts the individual, just as it raises up the nation. Many conservatives, it is no secret, worry that there will not be enough contrast between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, if Romney is the Republican nominee. This oped points to dramatic and crucial contrast…
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February 3rd, 2012%
Originally posted here: Will Catholics Flee Obama over HHS Mandate?
Tom , you’re not the only one to step away from the blog for a while and return to find you’ve missed out on a lively discussion. I’ll chalk up my absence to a very busy legislative season here in the People’s Republic of Washington, where lawmakers are rushing to change the definition of marriage rather than deal with the $2 billion budget deficit, the stagnant local economy, high unemployment, the deteriorating transportation infrastructure, underfunded public employee pensions, or… Funny thing about an election year — normally the Democrats would just pay cash to beef up support from their favored interest groups, but the state treasury is drier than this morning’s martini. All that’s left are the base-energizing freebies like redefining marriage, banning plastic grocery bags, forcing private insurance companies to pay for abortion, and a host of other circus events lawmakers have designed to keep voters distracted from their procrastination on serious fiscal problems. Good thing that doesn’t happen at the federal level. I was pleased to see Thomas Peters’ running tally of bishops who have spoken out against the Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate forcing employers to pay for contraception, abortifacients, and sterilization. The number is up to 145 as of this posting. Certainly it’s refreshing to see such outcry, though as they say in marketing, it all depends on your target audience. If the bishops are aiming their statements at their flocks, the more revealing tally would be the number of Catholics who don’t much care what the bishops have to say about anything of moral gravity, particularly below the waist. …
Originally posted here: Will Catholics Flee Obama over HHS Mandate?
February 3rd, 2012%
Read the full article here: Obama address at National Prayer Breakfast
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 2, President Barack Obama discussed how his faith has influenced his policies and avoided any reference to the ……
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February 3rd, 2012%
Go here to read the rest: Networks Rush to Defend Planned Parenthood From Komen
The Big Three networks continued their blackout on covering the controversy involving the Obama administration trying to force Catholic institutions to include coverage of abortifacients and contraception in their health plans without a co-pay. Instead, Diane Sawyer on Wednesday’s ABC World News highlighted Pfizer’s recall of birth control pills that could “raise the risk of …
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February 3rd, 2012%
Read the complete text here: Obama, Metaxas call for authentic religion at prayer breakfast
Washington D.C., Feb 2, 2012 / 08:08 pm ( .- The need for a genuine faith that translates into action was the theme chosen by both President Obama and keynote speaker Eric Metaxas at the 2012 National Prayer Breakfast in the nation’s capital. The breakfast, which was held in the district’s Hilton Hotel on Feb. 2, attracted more than 3,000 guests. “We can’t leave our values at the door,” President Obama said, highlighting the importance of having a faith that is lived out “not just with words, but with deeds.” The president stated that the values of his Christian faith motivate the decisions he makes in office. As a Christian, he said, his economic policies coincide with the biblical principle of “requiring much from those who have been given so much.” He also cast his efforts to “prevent atrocities” in other countries and “take on issues like human trafficking” as being “about the biblical call to care for the least of these.” President Obama added that his administration is “linking arms with faith-based groups,” such as Catholic Charities, to work towards “strengthening adoption” and serving those “who are struggling with poverty,” among other initiatives.
February 2nd, 2012%
More: Southern Baptist leader: Obama Contraception mandate ‘is not only a Catholic issue’
by Ben Johnson LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, February 2, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Obama administration’s mandate that religious institutions cover all birth control, including abortifacient drugs like Plan B and Ella, and sterilization in their health insurance plans has people of faith banding together across… …
More: Southern Baptist leader: Obama Contraception mandate ‘is not only a Catholic issue’
February 2nd, 2012%
Read the full article here: Senator Rubio offers bill to roll back Obama mandate
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has introduced legislation that would rescind the Obama administration’s mandate for contraceptive coverage in all health-care plans. Senator Rubio’s ……
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February 2nd, 2012%
Read the full text here: Rubio Senate Bill Would Repeal Obama Anti-Conscience Mandate
Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, has filed legislation in the Senate to repeal a new ObamaCare mandate that violates the religious liberties and conscience rights of faith-based institutions by forcing them to offer employees insurance coverage for contraceptives, birth control or drugs that can cause abortions. The Obama Administration issued a statement re-iterating the …
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February 2nd, 2012%
Go here to see the original: Inside the Mind of Evil: Obama Administration’s HHS Decision
By Jimmy Akin | Under the headline “Contraceptive mandate could face tough sledding in Supreme Court” the LA Times is reporting: The Supreme Court and the Obama administration, already headed for a face-off in March over the constitutionality of the healthcare law, appear to be on another collision course over whether church-run schools, universities, hospitals and charities must provide free contraceptives … …
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February 2nd, 2012%
Read the full article here: Business leaders decry HHS contraception mandate
Washington D.C., Feb 2, 2012 / 06:00 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Catholic leaders of both religious and secular businesses across the country are denouncing the Obama administration’s contraception mandate for forcing a moral dilemma on them and negatively impacting their companies. Jonathan Reyes, president of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Denver,
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