We should note that dissent is not just coming from conservatives. E. J. Dionne, one of the most liberal columnists in the country, has argued against the ruling. Even The Washington Post editorialized against the move saying that President Obama is “requiring religiously affiliated entities to spend their own money in a way that contradicts the tenets of their faith.”
Elections do have consequences. And all those who were arguing in 2008 that candidate Obama would favor policies that reduce abortions have been proven tragically wrong. Not only has he adopted policies that will expand abortions, he is favoring laws that coerce Christians into funding abortions. President Obama’s latest actions are an appalling overreach that will have sad implications for pro-life Christians. I don’t think we’ve ever seen a President open up a more radical and intrusive attack on religious liberty and on unborn human life than what we are witnessing right now.
President Obama’s War on Religion | Denny Burk.
Ponder that for a moment. In effect, the Department of Health and Human Services is telling religious groups that if they don’t want to pay for practices they consider immoral, they should stick to serving their own co-religionists rather than the wider public. Sectarian self-segregation is O.K., but good Samaritanism is not. The rule suggests a preposterous scenario in which a Catholic hospital avoids paying for sterilizations and the morning-after pill by closing its doors to atheists and Muslims, and hanging out a sign saying “no Protestants need apply.”
The regulations are a particularly cruel betrayal of Catholic Democrats, many of whom had defended the health care law as an admirable fulfillment of Catholicism’s emphasis on social justice. Now they find that their government’s communitarianism leaves no room for their church’s communitarianism, and threatens to regulate it out of existence.
Government and Its Rivals – NYTimes.com.
In actuality, the Obama Administration trampled religious liberty under the feet of the leviathan state, forcing religious employers to do what conscience will not allow. Religious organizations such as schools, colleges, and hospitals will be required to pay for services that they believe to be immoral and disobedient to God.
AlbertMohler.com – The President, the Pill, and Religious Liberty in Peril.
Of Malia and Natasha? Well, they’re just choices. Everyone should have the right to decide who to bring home and who… well… should just be… not allowed to live, right? It has to be hard to look them in the eye and say, “Well, Malia, Tasha, fortunately for you, you’re the choices we made. Believe us! We loved you just like you were our very own children even when you were still just blobs of flesh… otherwise (finger swiping across throat). Now off to bed. And don’t worry. Now that you made it into the world alive, there’s not a damn thing we can do about it. Don’t believe what your friends say, its Secret Service, not secret sacrifice. We might have killed you at one time, but there are still some decent laws on the books. Sweet dreams!”
