From Breitbart The Department of Justice has responded to a lawsuit brought against the Obama administration by Hobby Lobby Stores, a Christian-owned, self-insured business that has argued that ObamaCare’s HHS mandate forces it “to violate their deeply held religious beliefs under threat of heavy fines, penalties, and lawsuits.” In its brief, the DOJ responds that [...]
Catholic Bishops: Biden Misrepresented HHS Mandate in Debate
From LifeNews.com The nation’s Catholic bishops said Vice President Joe Biden misrepresented the pro-abortion HHS mandate in Thursday night’s debate with Paul Ryan. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement responding to what it called an “inaccurate statement of fact on the HHS mandate” on Biden’s part. The full text of the statement [...]
Voices Without A Vote (Video)
The teenagers who speak in this video belong to http://www.im2moro.org. These young people realize that if they don’t stand up and speak out for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness today, they will be living in a very different America tomorrow. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share [...]
Paul Ryan Address Catholics: Obama Has ‘Attacked’ Church Throughout Presidency (Video)
From Breitbart Republican Vice-Presidential nominee Paul Ryan has created a video message directed at fellow Catholics, reminding them that religious freedom will be a central issue in the Romney-Ryan administration. The video particularly targets the ObamaCare HHS mandate that requires all employers to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacients, free of charge, through their employee health [...]
Counting the cost: doors the HHS mandate will close
From LifeSite News “Which of you, desiring to build a tower,” asks Jesus in Luke 14, “does not first sit down and count the cost…?” He spoke these words about becoming a disciple. But those in authority who seek to force God’s people into disobeying their consciences would be wise to take this advice as [...]
Obamacare Mandate: Sterilize 15-Year-Old Girls for Free–Without Parental Consent
From CNS News Thanks to an Obamacare regulation that took effect on Aug. 1, health care plans in Oregon will now be required to provide free sterilizations to 15- year-old girls even if the parents of those girls do not consent to the procedure. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius finalized the regulation earlier [...]
It begins, religious persecution targets college students
From the Cardinal Newman Society August 1, 2012, marks the formal beginning of the persecution of Catholic colleges and universities that wish to remain faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church. As of today, the Obama administration is forcing Catholic colleges to help students and employees obtain no-cost sterilizations, abortion-causing drugs and contraceptives, and [...]
Obamacare’s contraception mandate loses in Colorado court
From the Daily Caller A coalition of civil rights group has persuaded a Denver, Colo. judge that Obamacare’s preventive care coverage provides a “substantial burden” on a Colorado company’s free exercise of religion. Judge John Kane, who was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, granted a “preliminary injunction” barring enforcement of the law against the company, [...]
HHS to business owners: Pay for sterilization and contraception, or stop doing business
From Daily Caller August 1 is the first day businesses will be mandated to provide insurance including contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs. Regulated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the mandate presents a devastating choice for many business owners — to either violate their conscience by subsidizing behavior they find objectionable — [...]
Catholic Health Association reversal – now opposes HHS mandate
From LifeSiteNews In a reversal that deals a significant blow to the HHS contraception mandate, the major Catholic hospital association that once provided crucial political steam for President Obama’s health care legislation has now backed off supporting the mandate, saying that the president’s “accommodation” of religious groups is inadequate. The Catholic Health Association (CHA) on [...]
Reagan’s sign of the cross speech
From Breitbart Every American high school student knows, or should know, that President Ronald Reagan went to the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin on this date in 1987. The President said: “If you seek liberalization, open this gate…Mr. Gorbachev,tear down this wall.” (Yes, kids, there was a West Berlin then.) American journalists were enchanted by [...]
The breathtaking bias of the mainstream media
From News Busters ABC, CBS, and NBC stayed true to their liberal slant and ignored the 164 rallies across the United States on Friday against the federal government’s abortifacient/birth control mandate under ObamaCare. Religious leaders and conservative politicians, like former GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann, addressed the tens of thousands of pro-religious freedom activists [...]
Religious liberty advocates see ‘unprecedented threats’ in U.S.
From LifeSiteNews Are the current threats to religious liberty in the United States unprecedented? Religious freedom advocates disagreed at a recent Washington, D.C., conference, but at least one asserted there is something new and different about the menace to a right protected in the First Amendment. The debate came during a day-long event sponsored by [...]
Miami Archbishop Wenski: Obama picked a fight with the Church (video)
From Breitbart The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Miami led a rally against federal guidelines that require health insurers to cover contraception costs. The rally comes days before the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the law. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with [...]
Tens of thousands protest HSS mandate across the nation (video)
From CBN Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., was among those who protested nationwide Friday to draw more attention to the controversial health care mandate that would require contraception coverage. Americans gathered in more than 160 communities across the country for the “Stand Up” rallies. Participants want to put an end to the mandate from Health and [...]
Pelosi: ‘I do my religion on Sundays, in church’ (video)
From Beltway Confidential House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., a Roman Catholic, refused to say whether she supported her church’s teaching that contraception is immoral. “I do my religion on Sundays, in church, and I try to go other days of the week; I don’t do it at this press conference,” Pelosi said curtly as [...]
Catholic Bishops ready for civil disobedience
From Breitbart A new document published by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops(USCCB) is preparing Catholics across the nation for the prospect of engaging in massive civil disobedience in response to the HHS mandate requiring Catholic-affiliated institutions to provide free contraception, sterilization procedures, and abortion-inducing drugs to employees. The document, which has been prepared [...]
Obama video: 6-year-old’s career dreams require HHS birth control mandate (video)
From LifeSiteNews President Obama’s YouTube channel recently released a video titled “Letters to the President: The Dreams of Our Daughters.” Check it out. Behind the cute story, scenes of children laughing at a playground, and emotional piano music is a completely incorrect message. Erin Bilbray-Kohn, the narrator of the video, follows her description of her [...]
NPR plays-up Catholic priest’s trial but ignores Church’s anti-Obamacare lawsuit
From News Busters NPR obviously thought the case of Monsignor William Lynn, “the highest ranking Catholic official in the U.S. to be criminally tried for covering up child sex abuse by priests,” was newsworthy, as they devoted four and a half minutes to the story on Thursday’s All Things Considered. Meanwhile, the public radio network [...]
Mormons, Catholics, Baptists & Jews come together to plan defense of ‘religious liberty’
From The Blaze Conservative faith leaders of all stripes gathered on Thursday in Washington, D.C., to discuss the future of religious freedom in America. This event is the latest in a series of developments that were sparked by the Obama administration’s controversial contraceptive mandate. What started as a Catholic protest against the regulatory structure has [...]
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