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From CNS:
- Internal Obama Regime Emails Reveal Deliberate Targeting Of Catholics With Contraceptive Mandate
I Will Crush Them Shocker, huh? Next Monday I will file an amicus brief in Zubik v. Burwell, the contraceptive mandate case that Ed Whelan has so thoroughly discussed in this space this week. My brief will criticize the Administration for adopting an...
- Us Catholic Leaders Vow To Hold Firm To Biblical Marriage Teaching
Barack Obama and His College Sweetheart From the National Catholic Register: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex “marriage” is a constitutional right, in a long-awaited decision that will have sweeping and unpredictable...
- "during The Shutdown, It Is Illegal For Them To Minister On Base And They Risk Being Arrested If They Attempt To Do So”
John Schlageter, general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, said any furloughed priests volunteering their services could face big trouble.The administration has told Catholic priests who are contracted to perform services for...
- Hobby Lobby Will Defy Federal Mandate That They Provide Ru-486 Instant Abortion Pills To Their Employees As Part Of Their Health Plan
From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking...
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Catholic Bishops Nail 95 Theses To Obama's Door - Urge Civil Disobedience From Laura at Ace of Spades:We missed this one two weeks ago, during Dogtroversy. But it's kind of a big deal. CHICAGO, April 17, 2012— In an audacious rebuke to President...
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Catholic Church Files Lawsuit: Obama Administration Is Engaged In “A Conscious Political Strategy To Marginalize And Delegitimize Catholic Views, Holding Them Up For Ridicule On National Stage”…
From CNS:
The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is arguing in a new lawsuit that the Obama administration is engaged in a “conscious political strategy to marginalize and delegitimize” Catholic “religious views on contraception by holding them up for ridicule on the national stage.”
At issue in the lawsuit is whether the administration can force the archdiocese to secure a third-party administrator for its self-insurance plan who will provide sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs at no cost to church employees at some of the archdiocese’s separately incorporated subunits.
These subunits include a number of Catholic schools and charities, including Archbishop Carroll High School and Catholic Charities of Washington.
“[T]he Archdiocese operates a self-insurance plan that encompasses not only individuals directly employed by the Archdiocese itself, but, in addition, individuals employed by affiliated Catholic organizations,” says the church’s lawsuit.
Because the Obama administration’s sterilization-contraceptive-abortifacient mandate does not deem these Catholic organizations to be “religious employers,” says the lawsuit, “the U.S. Government Mandate requires that the archdiocese either (1) sponsor a plan that will provide, pay for, and/or facilitate the provision of the objectionable products and services to the employees of” these church organizations “or (2) no longer extend its plan to these organizations, subjecting them to massive fines if they do not contract with another insurance provider that will provide the objectionable coverage.”
Lawyers representing the archdiocese filed a memorandum with U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Sept. 24, pointing to actions and statements made by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to demonstrate that the administration is deliberately targeting the Catholic Church for its religious views.
- Internal Obama Regime Emails Reveal Deliberate Targeting Of Catholics With Contraceptive Mandate
I Will Crush Them Shocker, huh? Next Monday I will file an amicus brief in Zubik v. Burwell, the contraceptive mandate case that Ed Whelan has so thoroughly discussed in this space this week. My brief will criticize the Administration for adopting an...
- Us Catholic Leaders Vow To Hold Firm To Biblical Marriage Teaching
Barack Obama and His College Sweetheart From the National Catholic Register: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that same-sex “marriage” is a constitutional right, in a long-awaited decision that will have sweeping and unpredictable...
- "during The Shutdown, It Is Illegal For Them To Minister On Base And They Risk Being Arrested If They Attempt To Do So”
John Schlageter, general counsel for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, said any furloughed priests volunteering their services could face big trouble.The administration has told Catholic priests who are contracted to perform services for...
- Hobby Lobby Will Defy Federal Mandate That They Provide Ru-486 Instant Abortion Pills To Their Employees As Part Of Their Health Plan
From AP: WASHINGTON (AP) — An attorney for Hobby Lobby Stores said Thursday that the arts and crafts chain plans to defy a federal mandate requiring it to offer employees health coverage that includes access to the morning-after pill, despite risking...
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Catholic Bishops Nail 95 Theses To Obama's Door - Urge Civil Disobedience From Laura at Ace of Spades:We missed this one two weeks ago, during Dogtroversy. But it's kind of a big deal. CHICAGO, April 17, 2012— In an audacious rebuke to President...