Thousands of pastors and evangelical leaders are joining Roman Catholics who oppose President Barack Obama’s contraceptive coverage mandate. Family Research Council president Tony Perkins says more than 2,500 evangelicals have signed a letter urging President Obama to reverse the requirement that church-affiliated groups carry insurance providing free birth control, including “morning-after” pills and sterilization. The [...]
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Today it is contraception and the morning-after pill. Tomorrow it will be kosher slaughter, or matrilineal descent, or circumcision, or other matters of existential importance to Jewish observance. If the Obama administration gets away with forcing Catholic institutions to step across lines of life and death in the name of “health,” the federal government will [...]
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“Think the contraception decision was bad?” asks the Wall Street Journal. Well, just wait. It will get much worse. Offended by President Obama’s decision to force health insurers to pay for contraception and surgical sterilization? It gets worse: In the future, thanks to ObamaCare, the government will issue such health edicts on a routine basis—and largely insulated [...]
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Give him points for cleverness. President Obama’s birth control “accommodation” was as politically successful as it was morally meaningless. It was nothing but an accounting trick that still forces Catholic (and other religious) institutions to provide medical insurance that guarantees free birth control, tubal ligation and morning-after abortifacients — all of which violate church doctrine [...]
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Barbara Boxer, the leading pro-abortion member of the U.S. Senate, made some comments in a recent MSNBC interview that are sparking outrage across the Internet today. Boxer essentially says the right to insurance trumps religious rights and freedoms. The comments came during an interview concerning the controversial mandate pro-abortion President Barack Obama put in place [...]
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RUSH: Think about how far we’ve come, folks, in just three years. Just three years. We’ve gone from, “Birth control and abortion is a matter of conscience that we cannot impose on anyone,” to, “Birth control and abortion is a human right that everybody must get for free if they want it.” Now, what other [...]
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Announcing his support for Commissar Sebelius’ edicts on contraception, sterilization, and pharmacological abortion, that noted theologian the Most Reverend Al Sharpton explained: “If we are going to have a separation of church and state, we’re going to have a separation of church and state.” Thanks for clarifying that. The church model the young American state [...]
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When someone else pays for something we get to keep, we usually don’t care about the price, especially if our benefactor keeps paying for it. People on food stamps generally are not cost conscious because they know that each month, they’ll get a new batch of food stamps. There was a time that people paid [...]
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President Barack Obama announced today that “religious organizations” such as charities and hospitals will not be forced by the federal government to directly pay insurance premiums that cover sterilization, contraception and abortifacients but that their insurance providers must nonetheless provide those services free of charge to women insured by those organizations. Obama did not announce [...]
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Congressional Republicans aren’t impressed with President Obama’s new policy on contraception and religious institutions. Leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said they still plan to move a bill that would make further changes to the administration’s mandate. Obama said Friday that religious institutions like Catholic hospitals and universities will not have to include [...]
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President Obama announced a plan today that attempts to accommodate certain religious employers opposed to a rule that would require them to provide access to birth control for women free of charge. Obama announced that the rule would be tweaked so that in cases where non-profit religious organizations have objections, insurance companies would be required [...]
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Right-wing author and commentator Ann Coulter was warmly received by a standing-room only audience in a ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, garnering enthusiastic applause for her criticism of President Obama’s policy on mandating birth control coverage for employees at religiously-affiliated institutions. “This isn’t a Catholic issue, this is a freedom issue,” Coulter [...]
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The conflict between the Catholic Bishops and the White House over contraceptive coverage has American Catholics choosing sides. Catholics narrowly support the White House position in polls. There are potential political consequences: In presidential elections, Catholics are swing voters. They supported Al Gore in 2000, President George W. Bush in ’04 and President Obama in [...]
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Cracking down on contraception was never the way for Mitt Romney to ingratiate himself with voters in Massachusetts, even the Roman Catholics who mostly see it as a moral neutral. Now that that position is coming back to haunt Romney like the ghost of Christmas past, he’s taking cover with the religious right. And after last night’s surprising [...]
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Many Protestant and evangelical leaders are standing with the Roman Catholics bishops against the Obamacare mandate to compel religious hospitals, schools and charities to purchase insurance coverage for contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization. Although modern conservative Protestants have been accepting or ambivalent about birth control, they recognize a clear infringement on religious liberty. Mandatory coverage for [...]
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