http://www.mrc.org/bozellcolumns/columns/2012/20120127104648.aspx
Obama vs. Catholics
So when to the TV networks notice that Team Obama has an ideological agenda against faith-based charitable organizations, most especially the Catholic Church? Across the country, Democrats have been pushing Catholic social workers out of government cooperation.
By: L. Brent Bozell
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:07 PM EST
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Take the order promulgated by Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services on Friday to require virtually all employers to offer insurance coverage of sterilization, abortifacients, and contraceptives without deductibles or co-pays in their employee plans by August 1. Churches are exempt, but not religiously inspired hospitals, schools, and other charities that hire outside their faith tradition.
“The government should not force Americans to act as if pregnancy is a disease to be prevented at all costs,” insisted Archbishop (and Cardinal-designate) Timothy Dolan of New York, head of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops. “Historically this represents a challenge and a compromise of our religious liberty.”
That’s putting it mildly. What it means is that the Catholic Church is faced with closing down its hospitals, universities, and charities – or committing mortal sin.
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I know readers here think I’m a real tin foil hat. The Gooferment at war with the Catholic Church, Christianity, and organized religion? Impossible! Couldn’t happen here.
Remember Waco?
So when are we going to stand up for our First Amendment rights?
You only have the rights that you are willing to fight for.
I’ll go one step further. We should be pushing back with an Human Life Amendment. How about “With respect to the right to life, the word ‘person,’ as used in this article and in the fifth and fourteenth articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States, applies to all human beings, including their unborn offspring at every stage of their biological development, irrespective of age, health, function, or condition of dependency.”
Now as a little L libertarian, I don’t want to put the Gooferment in charge of woman’s body, or insert anything between a woman and her doctor. By the same token, we are killing ourselves as a species. There has to be a middle ground.
Let’s go on the offensive?
When ”Secular Progressive” say that “the rich aren’t paying their fare share”, and Bill O’Reilly pushes back with “What’s Fair?” and waits for a number. They wriggle like speared fish. Andrew Neapolitano does it even better: “Who gets to decide what’s fair?”
We need to push back. It’s not about abortion. It’s about when does life begin? When do those inalienable rights inure to “a person”? “Among these are the Right to Life, Liberty, and Property.”
So when is it?
Certainly, we can all agree that it’s some point between conception and the child’s 21st birthday.
So when is it?
Let’s stand up for OUR rights.
If they can kill babies, American citizens without due process, or anyone who’s unlucky enough to to be in the way of drone strike, then it won’t be long before they will be killing us fat old white guy injineers because it’s too expensive to care for us.
So when is it?
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
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