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Los Angeles, Calif., Jun 21, 2012 \/ 03:26 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- With the nationwide Fortnight for Freedom event beginning today, Archbishop Jos\u00e9 H. Gomez of Los Angeles said that any compromise that means Catholic institutions provide birth control insurance to employees is \u201ccapitulation\u201d and \u201cthe temptation to serve the government instead of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Catholic Church \u201cdoesn\u2019t serve the poor to please the government,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tRather, Catholics serve the poor \u201cbecause we are compelled by the love of Christ.\u201d This love also compels Catholics to testify to the sacredness of life, marriage and family and to testify that \u201cpreventing children from being born is immoral.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe archbishop\u2019s comments come in his June 21 essay \u201cFortnight for Freedom: Why Now?\u201d published on the website of First Things magazine. The Fortnight for Freedom is a period of prayer, education and religious freedom advocacy organized by the U.S. bishops from June 21-July 4.<\/p>\n

\tReligious freedom was brought to the fore this year on Jan. 20 when the federal Department of Health and Human Services finalized a mandate requiring employers, including many Catholic institutions, to provide insurance coverage for sterilization and contraception, including some abortion-causing drugs.<\/p>\n

\tOutcry over the mandate prompted the Obama administration to propose an accommodation on Feb. 10, which Catholic leaders said failed to address their inability to provide the objectionable coverage in good conscience.<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Gomez acknowledged in his essay that Americans enjoy great religious freedoms compared to other countries around the world.<\/p>\n

\tHowever, he said that religious freedom in the U.S. is still in jeopardy due to an \u201ceroding\u201d American consensus on religious liberty, conscience protection and the role of religion in public life.<\/p>\n

\tHe blamed religious indifferentism and also \u201cconstant agitation from de-Christianizing and secularizing elements in American society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tArchbishop Gomez said that while secularization has happened for some time, the government has taken on a new role. Instead of observing its duty to protect religious liberty, the government has \u201ctaken sides against the liberty of the nation\u2019s largest religious community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe accused the U.S. government of \u201cusing the full weight of its powers to try to dictate the terms under which the Catholic Church and individual Catholics will be permitted to participate in our society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Los Angeles archbishop also noted that there are increasing portrayals of Christian faith as \u201ca form of bigotry.\u201d There are \u201crelentless efforts\u201d to force Church agencies to comply with \u201csecular agendas,\u201d such as attempts to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions and sterilizations or to force Catholic adoption agencies to place children with homosexual couples.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to escape the conclusion that our present conflict is part of a larger cultural struggle to redefine America as a purely secular society\u2014a society in which religious institutions have no legitimate public role unless they are serving the government\u2019s purposes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\tIn response to these trends, the archbishop called on Christians to love their enemies and \u201cresist their evil with good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe live our faith with the freedom of the children of God, in season and out of season, with a love that serves and heals and inspires,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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