"0bama's War on Religious Liberty"

[TBoneTX 45,568]

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http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/obamas-war-on-religious-liberty/

OBAMA'S WAR ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY

Phyllis Schlafly: President's directive for abortifacient drugs opens a slippery slope

by PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

Welcome to the real Obamacare, whereby a handful of leftists in Washington, D.C., impose the views of their big-money donors on more than 300 million Americans. If the Obama mandate for contraception remains intact, then liberals will next demand that Americans pay for other objectionable items that are not really medical care.

We can expect future mandates, under the guise of “health care,” to include sex-change operations, late-term abortions, embryonic stem-cell use and a variety of other procedures many Americans do not support and certainly do not want to be compelled to foot the bill for. Obama’s directive for abortifacient drugs opens a slippery slope that would erode the moral authority of religious institutions in America.

Obama and the liberals have overplayed their hand. By baring their teeth, these lackeys for the left have awakened Democratic voters to the real contempt liberals hold for religious values.

All 181 U.S. Catholic bishops oppose Obama’s mandate, and Rasmussen polling estimates that 65 percent of Catholic Americans also oppose it. There are about 75 million American Catholics, most of whom have traditionally been Democratic voters but wouldn’t hesitate to cross party lines to defend their church leaders.

It will be fascinating to see how many Democratic politicians up for re-election this November side with Obama and against religious organizations. Liberals are just fine with throwing some Democratic incumbents overboard to advance far-left goals, just as the enactment of Obamacare in 2010 cost many Democrats their congressional seats.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ congressional testimony made clear that the Obama administration is dug in permanently to enforce the regulation that religiously affiliated institutions must offer their employees health insurance that includes abortion drugs, sterilization and contraceptives. Of course, insurance companies price their products to make a profit, so clearly the cost will be concealed and distributed, so many will pay for services that violate their religious beliefs.

####### Morris exposed how George Stephanopoulos outed the Obama strategy behind this outrageous action. Knowing that abortion is no longer a winning issue for Democrats, Obama wanted to shift the debate to contraception.

However, his ploy has failed. He really shifted the debate to religious liberty and to how the Obama administration is planning to force Americans to pay for procedures their religion teaches them are morally wrong.

The religious-liberty issue is definitely not confined to Catholic hospitals, schools, colleges and charities. It opens up the whole attack on religion and on Christianity that is now going on in the Obama administration, the courts and even the military.

The U.S. Army chief of chaplains sent an email to senior chaplains telling them that Archbishop Timothy Broglio’s letter criticizing the Obama insurance rule was not to be read from the pulpit. There is no evidence Obama personally issued this order, but the Army chief of chaplains must have thought he was taking a politically correct action.

Has anti-religious bigotry become so pervasive that chaplains believe they must censor their sermons to conform to Obama’s prejudices?

Just recently, the Obama administration forced the Air Force’s Capabilities Office to strike the Latin word for “God” from its logo. Since schools seldom teach Latin any more, I wonder how many realized what this meant.

At the Veterans Affairs Department, Obama’s agents banned military honor details from reciting the significance of each fold of the American Flag during the burial services of our heroic men and women who gave their lives for our country. Obama says the ceremony promoted religion, and therefore, the recitations had to stop.

Obama gave a speech at Georgetown University, a Catholic college. But he ordered his staff to cover up a crucifix with a giant black tarp because he didn’t want anybody to see a religious symbol while he was talking.

Obama has joined in the war against religion being waged by the American Civil Liberties Union and the atheists in the courts. We’ve all heard about the lawsuits attempting to delete “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, remove Ten Commandments monuments and crosses from every public place.

Less well-known, but important in the big picture, are the judges’ decisions to ban the Westmoreland Middle School football coach in Tennessee from bowing his head during student-led prayer before a game and the decision to ban grace before supper at Virginia Military Institute.

The plan is even more far-reaching. It confirms that the Obamacare law can impose any regulation the bureaucrats choose, such as death panels.

The firestorm over this most recent regulation is one more proof that social issues and fiscal issues are inescapably intertwined. Social-issue policy decisions determine fiscal ones.

The Heritage Foundation has just released its 2012 Index of Dependence on Government. It shows the shocking fact that 1 in 5 Americans is dependent on government, meaning reliance on government handouts for housing, health care, food stamps, college tuition and retirement assistance.

[웃 910]

World Nut Daily, ####### Morris, and The Heritage Foundation all in the same article. I think I'll pass...

[Dakine10 5,452]

The plan is even more far-reaching. It confirms that the Obamacare law can impose any regulation the bureaucrats choose, such as death panels.

Doesn't anyone check their facts any more? Beside's being untrue, this seems a little out of place for the article.

[Leatherneck 693]

No rational person should be surprised.

[웃 910]

Doesn't anyone check their facts any more? Beside's being untrue, this seems a little out of place for the article.

These are religious paranoid delusional nut jobs. Their one goal is to make Obama a 1 term president. They spread lies and try to instill fear and paranoia into the fringe of the base.

90% of them believe global warming and evolution are false, the earth is 6,000 years old, we are living in the end of days, and any day now a man named Jesus that lived 2000 years ago will descend from the sky and start *poofing* people into heaven and hell (majority to hell).

[TBoneTX 45,568]

90% of them believe

Where did you get, and how did you verify, THIS fact?

Doesn't anyone check their facts any more? Beside's being untrue, this seems a little out of place for the article.

I too thought that the statement was definitely out of place, but the other part IS in there (not in those words, of course).

[luckytxn 2,264]

No rational person should be surprised.

The Socialist sheep care only about controlling the populace. Damn the Constitution.

[웃 910]

Where did you get, and how did you verify, THIS fact?

As Gary would say they are from my sources, feel free to correct them...

[TBoneTX 45,568]

As Gary would say they are from my sources, feel free to correct them...

You're not Gary, so provide a link, please.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I guess I need to get out of my little protestant world, I thought all Christians saw contraception as ok.

[james&olya 1,121]

No rational person should be surprised.

No RATIONAL person IS surprised, or upset! And I am sure you will be most relieved to find that not a single individual is mandated to use any form of birth control whatsoever! You and every single catholic and member of any other religion will remain free to follow the dictates of your religion and your conscience on matters pertaining to reproduction. What Obama and 'the liberals' will not stand for is for the catholic church to have the 'religious liberty' to use the power of the government to help the bishops enforce religious rules that are being flouted by the vast majority of members of that church!

[james&olya 1,121]

The Socialist sheep care only about controlling the populace. Damn the Constitution.

Ensuring freedom of choice and access to contraception is the OPPOSITE of CONTROLLING the populace!!!

Edited February 21, 2012 by james&olya

[james&olya 1,121]

The Socialist sheep care only about controlling the populace. Damn the Constitution.

Oh, wait a minute! Now I get it. You are accusing the bishops of being "socialist sheep"! It all makes sense except you are one of the first persons I have heard make the rather correct observation that the catholic clergy actually do live by a number of rather socialist principles!

[ready4ONE 5,400]

My thoughts? Stupid and misleading article.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

These are religious paranoid delusional nut jobs. Their one goal is to make Obama a 1 term president. They spread lies and try to instill fear and paranoia into the fringe of the base.

90% of them believe global warming and evolution are false, the earth is 6,000 years old, we are living in the end of days, and any day now a man named Jesus that lived 2000 years ago will descend from the sky and start *poofing* people into heaven and hell (majority to hell).

I would like to see Obama as a one termer. Global warming is a hoax. The earth is billions of years old and the climate has changed many times all by itself, we are living in the best of days, Jesus is also a hoax. So far, monetarily, Jesus has been a bigger hoax than Global warming, but the GW freaks are catching up.

That said, why is Obama dictating to churches and insurance companies what they will cover? Why did the Dems turn down single payer coverage and give us this (pardon the pun) "abortion" of a health care law? Why can't people buy their own damn BC pills? It seems like anyone working for Catholic agencies that uses pills now has been able to. I mean, what is the "problem" we are "fixing"?

This whole Obamacare thing is going to be struck down before the election anyway by the Supreme Court. Why? Because when he had a rubber stamp cngress for two years he couldn't get it done and gave us this junk by way of comforting a bunch of bickering Dems.