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Back in May, the Archdiocese of New York filed suit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because of the HHS Mandate requiring contraceptive, abortifacient, and sterilization coverage for employees.
The plaintiffs in the case are as follows: [Read more...]
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Regarding the HHS Mandate, Rachel Zoll reports from Baltimore,
A top American bishop said Tuesday the Roman Catholic church will not comply with the Obama administration requirement that most employers provide health insurance covering birth control.
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said church leaders are open to working toward a resolution with federal officials, but will meanwhile press ahead with challenges to the mandate in legislatures and in court.
“The only thing we’re certainly not prepared to do is give in. We’re not violating our consciences,” Dolan told reporters at a national bishops’ meeting. “I would say no door is closed except for the door to capitulation.” [Read more...]
Lena Dunham was voted Glamour Magazine's "Woman of the Year". Just try to imagine how pissed off Sandra Fluke is right now.
— Dennis Miller Show (@DennisDMZ) November 13, 2012
Who knows? Maybe there’s a lower level cabinet post in her future or perhaps an ambassadorship.
He likes me…he really likes me.
In the combox this morning on the post on the new educational website launched by the USSCB, a reader notes that religious freedom is a two way street.
The concern here is America not only as a place of freedom OF religion, but also freedom FROM religion. Both must be honored in a true democracy.
I replied with a few thoughts, noting that yes it is a two-way street, and let’s make sure it isn’t a one way street to the gulag for believers.
Providentially, as no one tips me off to stuff going on within the halls of the chanceries throughout the country, Archbishop Charles Chaput launched a little YouTube video* to help answer the concerns of secularists like the reader above. [Read more...]
One of the salient points critics of our bishops’ stance on the HHS Mandate fail to notice is the solidarity of the group. Do you know how many of the bishops have broken away and decided that the HHS Mandate is really not a big deal? [Read more...]
“Puttin’ on hold the laws that are stinky.”
Pardon me for thinking about the Schoolhouse Rock song that taught us about conjunctions. Remember it? [Read more...]
I thought the above was over the top. And then I saw this.
Our President approves of the following message… [Read more...]
and around the corner. Folks of every creed, every color, and every political persuasion. Folks who recognize when their government has overstepped its boundary, and overreached.
See if you approve of this message too. [Read more...]
This may surprise you, but many folks have no idea how repellent the HHS Mandate is to our way of life.
And I don’t just mean the Catholic way of life, but to the American Way of life, which rests on the rights enshrined in the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. [Read more...]
Here’s something that HHS will never warn women about.
The irony of utilizing artificial hormones for birth control is lost on the Sex and the City crowd. They’re too concerned about buying organic veggies at Whole Foods, while putting their brains in neutral when at Walgreens and CVS.
Be weird. Be different. Take “organic” to it’s natural conclusion.
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