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Religious Freedom You ‘Deserve’
THE PATRIOT POST
http://patriotpost.us/edition/2012/02/10/digest/
The Yes-We-Can administration remains on the defensive following public outrage from its latest ObamaCare edict issued by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. This one forces religiously affiliated hospitals, schools and charities to provide insurance covering “preventive services.” Trampling religious liberties is apparently the essence of Hope ‘n’ Change.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained that American women “deserve” access to such health insurance coverage “regardless of where they work.” Decrypting the leftist doublespeak, that kind of “preventive service” includes free sterilizations, abortion-inducing drugs and artificial contraceptives that violate the beliefs of many religious organizations including Catholic and other Christian hospitals. The 70-million-member Catholic Church, whose bishops oversee the operation of over 600 hospitals and 1,400 other health facilities in the United States, was particularly incensed.
Carney was quick to point out that “churches [and] houses of worship are exempt from this policy.” The only problem with this statement is that under the administration’s narrow definitions, virtually no organization, including an actual church, qualifies for the exemption. Pushback from religious organizations has been swift, united, sustained and vigorous, with Catholic priests set to condemn the new rules to their parishes nationwide and religious leaders across America denouncing the move.
Displaying its usual tone deafness to American sentiment was the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which had the chutzpah to claim that not only does the mandate for birth control coverage not violate religious liberties, but by choosing not to pay for employees’ contraceptives the “powerful lobbying arm of the Catholic Church” and other similarly-allied organizations are forcing their own beliefs on their employees, violating their “rights.”
Setting aside for the moment the fact that throughout history a “right” has always been defined as a freedom to act, along with a corresponding duty of forbearance from others who would interfere with that act, a right has never been viewed by any within the “sane” sector of the legal community as a positive conveyance. That is, the notion that a person has a “right” in the form of a demand on someone else to provide contraceptives, free abortions or any other form of “health care” is ludicrous. But we digress. That said, the ACLU remains clearly out of touch with both fundamental constitutional tenets and the broader American public.
Sensing the impending impact of this and other fallout from ObamaCare on the 2012 presidential race, former mouthpiece and current White House adviser David Axelrod attempted to soften the blow by opening the door to compromise on the rule. Of course, in true Stalinist fashion, “compromise” means never giving up ground (i.e., two steps forward, one step backward). Axelrod ventured that the president would “look for a way” to address concerns that the ruling would force some to violate their religious beliefs.
Though the president reportedly “reinforced” his stance this week in a speech at the Democrats’ annual retreat at Nationals Park in Washington, DC, this morning, like a ping pong match, the media are again reporting that he is prepared to offer some “accommodation” for religious liberty, which, in fact, likely won’t be any accommodation at all.
Meanwhile, Archbishop Timothy Broglio, head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, wrote a stiffly worded letter to be read at military Masses worldwide, stating that the new health care regulation was “a blow” to freedoms U.S. troops have not only fought to defend but for which some have recently given their lives in battle. Archbishop Broglio aptly declared, “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law.”
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty has filed suit on behalf of Belmont Abbey College (a Benedictine Catholic college in North Carolina), Colorado Christian University and the Catholic Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN).
In the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) even made a rare floor speech to warn the president that House Republicans will do whatever they can to stop Obama’s mandate. “This attack by the federal government on religious freedom in our country must not stand and will not stand.” For this and almost countless other reasons, Obama’s presidency itself must not stand, and even if he now backs down he may have just made it more likely to fall.
This Week’s ‘Braying Jackass & Jenny’ Awards
“[T]o show how the Republicans never lose an opportunity to mess up a good piece of legislation, listen to this: They’re talking about First Amendment rights, the Constitution. That is so senseless.” –Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) objecting to Republican efforts to block the administration’s mandate through amendments to other legislation
“This is about women’s health. … We shouldn’t have to be to a place where people are saying — when the overwhelming practice is going in favor of women’s health — ‘we want to pull that back,’ and use the excuse of religious freedom, which, of course, this is not.” –House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who claims to be Catholic, slamming her own church for defending religious liberty
ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP 
The three most murderous regimes in history were:
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics causing 62,000,000 deaths
The People’s Republic of China causing 35,000,000 deaths
The NAZI, National Socialist Worker’s Party causing 21,000,000 deaths
All three were socialist and two proudly placed the word ‘socialist’ in their titles. This is not some wild eyed opinion. This is according to the scholarly tome: “The Encyclopedia of Genocide.”
And now we are in the midst of Mr. Obama’s socialism, which is making the abortion and abortafacient Holocaust rival that of his socialist predecessors. “Today I believe I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator; by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.” These words of Adolf Hitler in “Mein Kamf” sound strangely like some recent words of President Obama. He tells us again and again that he is a Christian. Of course, the “enemy” now is no longer the Jews: it is the the unborn children of God. There are no large death camps. Why would such be needed? The little unborn children of God can be killed in small rooms and flushed down toilets or ground up in garbage disposals. The garbage disposal is the new oven. Mr. Obama assures us that he will save us just as Hitler told the Germans, just as Stalin told the Russians, just as Mao told the Chinese.
All forms of socialism including the ‘closet socialism’ of the current reigning Democratic Party insist that saving the public always requires killing a vast number of the public. Apparently salvation in socialism cannot be had without some great genocide, without some gigantic Holocaust. Hitler could not have come to power without the support of many Catholic and Protestant Germans. Is it any surprise that Obama rode into the White House carried by many, all too many Catholic and Protestant voters. Meanwhile the Holocaust goes on. Liberals will say there is no Holocaust. “Where are the death camps, the huge black plumes of smoke from the ovens, the rain of ashes?”
Literalists in everything but Scripture scholarship, they cannot see a Holocaust unless it looks exactly like one from a previous age. I sit next to many people in my parish who proudly wore Obama buttons and still have aged and peeling Obama stickers on their cars. Amazing how many Obama stickers one sees in a Catholic Church parking lot. I was surprised how many I saw in the Archdiocese Administration parking lot. It must have been like this in Nazi Germany with Catholics sporting the Nazi symbol on their coat lapels. I am reminded of the Nazi belt buckle with the words” GOTT MIT UNS: God with us! And the Holocaust goes on.
Standing outside an abortion “clinic” today I took notice of the little buses. Business is booming in the baby murder business. Many people don’t come in cars. There are little chartered buses and vans, like the big passenger vans you see at airports. I notice they come in waves. And then it hits me: these are caravans. The modern air conditioned bus is now the modern counterpart of the suffocating wooden rail cars that transported the Jews to their deaths in Nazi Germany. Adolph Eichmann prided himself on how efficiently he ran the trains to those death camps. But the Holocaust goes on. I sit in a comfortable chair typing away on my computer keyboard. A couple of miles away little babies are being torn apart limb by limb while their hearts are still beating. End of comment.
This administration is sick, and they really do not care regargless they say they do. It is not a choice for the GOVERNMENT TO RULE OUR LIVES!!!! They have their noses in our business too much already, Now they want to take the rest of our FREEDOM away…THE FIRST AMENDMENT!!
I hope and pray that the Bishops’ as a whole don’t fall for this trap. This makes things far worse. Now insurance companies AND people will have to pay for contraception against their will. It’s going to get ugly.