Cardinal Dolan: Obama administration wants to define ‘Church’ for you (video)

Even President Obama knows that religion and the churches need their freedom and should be exempt for conscience, he admits that and if we had stopped there we would be in great shape. If he would have said simply churches and communities of faith that have a conscientious objection to it don’t need to do that. That would have been fine, that is what usually has happened in American history.

What HHS, Health and Human Services says is, by the way, we’ll define church for you. We’ll tell you what you have to do to earn these exemptions. To be a church you can only serve your own people, you have to hire only your own people, and you’ve only got to teach your own people. And if you do that, we will give you the exemptions. We are saying, Whoa, we thought the wisdom of America is that you didn’t define a church for us, you gave freedom to a church to define itself. You see what’s happening, guess what, on the soup lines we are supposed to ask people for baptismal certificates?