January 31, 2012
Worth getting angry about
While Mitt Romney said "it's not worth getting angry" about ObamaCare, some would beg to differ.
Last week's ruling by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), rejecting appeals and confirming the ObamaCare mandate for contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, with only a very narrow religious exception and a one-year grace period, has mobilized Catholic bishops across the country in protest.
Many Catholic bishops, archbishops and cardinals have sent letters to the Obama Administration, and to their parishes, rejecting the ruling in no uncertain terms.
For example, Cardinal-designate Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore, and numerous others, in letters read to parishioners across the country this past Sunday:
In so ruling, the Administration has cast aside the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, denying to Catholics our Nation's first and most fundamental freedom, that of religious liberty...
...We cannot - we will not - comply with...(Read Full Post)