Once again the Obama administration has thumbed their noses at the U.S. Constitution.
Chances are if you follow the news at all you have heard that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebilius has ruled that Obamacare will require the Catholic Church to purchase health insurance that includes contraceptive coverage for employees of their hospitals, schools and charities.
It is well known that one of the tenets of the Catholic Church is it's opposition to man-made forms of birth control to include abortion. President Obama has stated that he supports Sebilius' decision and his administration has given employers like the Catholic Church until August 2013 to conform to the law. In other words President Obama is giving the Catholic Church a deadline in which they must adapt their beliefs to conform to his law. This is unacceptable. This ruling is not only a slap in the face to the Catholic Church but also to all churches and citizens of this country who value religious freedom. It's a slap in the face to all in this country who value the Constitution. Hopefully, it is a slap that finally wakes this country up.
For far too long we have been content to sit in the back seat and engage in sight seeing while politicians have driven us closer and closer to the edge of the cliff. We can no longer do this. We have to become engaged. We have to become informed. We have to find our voice and then we have to speak out to those who we elect to represent us and remind them that this country is governed by the people. We have to demand that they act only after consulting their constituents and the Constitution. We have to begin to do these things now because if we continue on the road we are on there will come a time when we are relegated to nothing more than the role of sight-seer.
Chances are if you follow the news at all you have heard that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebilius has ruled that Obamacare will require the Catholic Church to purchase health insurance that includes contraceptive coverage for employees of their hospitals, schools and charities.
It is well known that one of the tenets of the Catholic Church is it's opposition to man-made forms of birth control to include abortion. President Obama has stated that he supports Sebilius' decision and his administration has given employers like the Catholic Church until August 2013 to conform to the law. In other words President Obama is giving the Catholic Church a deadline in which they must adapt their beliefs to conform to his law. This is unacceptable. This ruling is not only a slap in the face to the Catholic Church but also to all churches and citizens of this country who value religious freedom. It's a slap in the face to all in this country who value the Constitution. Hopefully, it is a slap that finally wakes this country up.
For far too long we have been content to sit in the back seat and engage in sight seeing while politicians have driven us closer and closer to the edge of the cliff. We can no longer do this. We have to become engaged. We have to become informed. We have to find our voice and then we have to speak out to those who we elect to represent us and remind them that this country is governed by the people. We have to demand that they act only after consulting their constituents and the Constitution. We have to begin to do these things now because if we continue on the road we are on there will come a time when we are relegated to nothing more than the role of sight-seer.
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