A Call to Arms, My Brothers!

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didn’t speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.  –Martin Niemöller

This past week, the Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama Administration violated the First Amendment’s Religion Clause by preventing the freedom of Catholics in the United States to freely practice our religion.  To a practicing Catholic, our faith is more than the church service we attend on Sunday mornings or the ashes we wear at the beginning of every Lent.  Our faith is the governing force by which we live our lives.

With its Contraception/Sterilization Mandate, the Obama Administration has taken direct aim at the Catholic Church through our foundational beliefs in the value of every human life and in the supremacy of God over us which are the driving forces behind our stance on these controversial issues.  Their demand that Catholics provide access to medical procedures and pharmaceuticals which we hold to be intrinsically evil and certainly against the very roots of the faith we profess is an affront to every American. 

Their unconstitutional mandate has left American Roman Catholics in the position of choosing between obedience to God and obedience to the State.

How have we arrived at a place where United States citizens are confronting the dilemma of choosing between their faith and being American?  This is the country raised on the tales of the Pilgrims’ flight from England in order to escape religious persecution.  The American colonies were begun with the ideal that all men had a right to practice their faiths according to the actual tenets of those religions and not according the whims and permissions of the government.  We were revolutionary in the concept that our inalienable rights were derived from our Creator and not from the largesse of a sovereign or legislature.

President Obama has, through his Department of Health and Human Services, turned his back upon almost 400  years of American history.  With this one Mandate, he has trampled upon the intentions of our Founders who so fervently believed in the rights of people to worship (or not worship) and to believe (or not believe) as they saw fit that it is the first right enshrined in the Bill of Rights

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

I have heard many people say “I do not agree with the Catholic Church’s stance on contraception.”  No one is asking for you to do so.  It is sufficient enough that we believe it.

Those who would frame this as a debate on reproductive rights are being misled or are attempting to mislead.  This attack by the Obama Administration is not about sexual rights.  It is about our religious freedom and the very Liberty which every American considers his/her birthright.  With this decision, United States Government has granted itself authority and jurisdiction over every church, synagogue, mosque and cathedral  and allowed themselves the power to enforce their own secular worldview upon all believers.

It is in light of this that we call upon you, our brother Americans, to stand with us against this unjust and breathtaking power grab.  Do not be deceived into thinking that it ends with us or with this ruling.  The very Right of Religious Freedom is at stake.

What can you do to help?  Contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them that government oppression is intolerable.  Call the US Dept of Health and Human Services and tell them that their power grab will not succeed.  Call the White House and remind them that the United States threw out one tyrant with King George and we won’t hesitate to do it again!


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