“I hate to question
people’s motives … but I think this is certainly indicative of an ideology that the policy goals of an administration
trump religious freedom.”
Senator
Marco Rubio
Obama's War on the Catholic Church
The
pathetic attack on religious freedom and the sanctity of individual conscience is a shot heard round the planet. The social
desecration that surrounds this immoral culture has a defamed religious czar, named Barack Hussein Obama. Kathleen Sebelius,
secretary of Health and Human service is a disgrace. She acts as the High Priestess of the Church for the Police State. No
matter what your opinion is of the Catholic Church, one practice surely shows the wisdom of the faith. Women are not ordained
as priests.
All the bluster about women’s reproductive rights
misses the nature of the issue. America was created as a nation to guarantee religious freedom. According to the gospel of
Obama, his bishops wear skirts and jack boots. By ordering an unconstitutional dictate, Sebelius’ heretical doctrine
views the First Amendment as expendable. History repeats itself.
Mark
Steyn in an article steeped in canon law irony The Church of Obama has it correct.
"The president of the United States has decided to go Henry
VIII on the Church’s medieval ass. Whatever religious institutions might profess to believe in the matter of "women’s
health," their pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, and immunities are now subordinate to a one-and-only
supreme head on earth determined to repress, redress, restrain, and amend their heresies. One wouldn’t wish to overextend
the analogy: For one thing, the Catholic Church in America has been pathetically accommodating of Beltway bigwigs’ ravenous
appetite for marital annulments in a way that Pope Clement VII was disinclined to be vis-à-vis the English king and
Catherine of Aragon. But where’d all the pandering get them? In essence President Obama has embarked on the same usurpation
of church authority as Henry VIII: As his Friday morning faux-compromise confirms, the continued existence of a "faith-based
institution" depends on submission to the doctrinal supremacy of the state."
The
response from Cardinal-Designate Dolan during a CBS 2 interview sums it up.
"The federal government should do what it’s traditionally
done since July 4, 1776, namely back out of intruding into the internal life of a church."
"The Catholic Church defends religious liberty, including
freedom of conscience, for everyone. The Amish do not carry health insurance. The government respects their principles. Christian
Scientists want to heal by prayer alone, and the new health-care reform law respects that. Quakers and others object to killing
even in wartime, and the government respects that principle for conscientious objectors. By its decision, the Obama administration
has failed to show the same respect for the consciences of Catholics and others who object to treating pregnancy as a disease."
For a rational and detailed explanation of the pitfalls, view the video ObamaCare: The Facts On Abortion.
Even the most ardent opponent of the Papacy
must admit that Western Civilization is based upon the principles of Christian teaching that recognize the unique essence
of every human being. That each person has an individual conscience as the focus of behavior and that a belief in God and
the revealed word developed our social and legal heritage. The State may have temporal power to impose its will, but does
not have legitimate moral authority that violates natural law or the inherent autonomy of each mortal soul.
The Obama gambit is a foolish attempt to wage war directly on the spiritual church doctrine
of the Catholic Church. Even the Huffington Post points out in Catholics Rally Against
Obama Contraception Mandate the outrage that this assault stirred.
"Dozens of priests took the rare step of reading letters from the pulpit urging parishioners
to reach out to Washington and oppose the rule, enacted Jan 20.
The rule
requires nearly all employers to provide their employees access to health insurance that covers artificial contraception,
sterilization services and the "morning after" birth control pill.
The
mandate exempts individual churches but applies to Catholic universities, Catholic-based charities and to groups affiliated
with Methodists, Baptists and other denominations."
The
feeble attempt to walk back this mistake with a compromise is symptomatic of a brutal regime that wants to stamp out traditional
Christianity, and substitute a state worship in a command and control belief.
"The Affordable Care Act itself is ambiguous about what counts as a religious organization
that deserves conscience protection. Like so much else in the rushed bill, this was left to administrative discretion. What
the law does cement is the principle that the government will decide for everyone what "health care" must mean.
The entire thrust of ObamaCare is to standardize benefits and how they must be paid for and provided, regardless of individual
choices or ethical convictions.
Mr. Obama's allies among Catholic liberals
are also professing shock—even the Catholic Health Association's Sister Carol Keehan, who lobbied for ObamaCare, and
Notre Dame's Father John Jenkins, who invited Mr. Obama to speak on campus in 2009. But if they now claim they were taken
for a ride by the secular left, the truth is that they wanted to be deceived in the name of their grander goal of government-enforced
equity. The Catholic left was one of ObamaCare's great enablers.
Speaking
of scales from the eyes, we're eager to hear from former Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak, who for a brief moment led a faction
of pro-life Democrats against ObamaCare in 2010. They surrendered when Mr. Obama gave them the fig leaf of an executive order
that will supposedly prevent federal funds from subsidizing abortions. Mr. Stupak is now a lobbyist at the D.C. law firm Venable
LLP."
Many political pundits claim that the social
issues are no longer important to most of the public. How inept it is to accept that the basis for political decisions need
not incorporate the moral issues or Bill of Right axioms. Human freedom is a natural right and is not a concession provided
from some obscure government bureaucrat or administrator.
Pat Buchanan
has long championed the principles and teaching of Christendom. The Death of the West is not based solely on the decline in
birth rates of just European descent families. The suppression or Christian beliefs and the persecution of religious institutions
under the 501 C3 extortion scheme to silence preaching and neuter political courage is the core strategy to kill faith in
God.
Today's injunctions against birth
control were re-affirmed in a 1968 document by Pope Paul VI called Humanae Vitae. He warned of four results if the widespread
use of contraceptives was accepted:
1.General
lowering of moral standards
2.A rise in infidelity, and illegitimacy
3.The reduction of women to objects used to satisfy men.
4.Government
coercion in reproductive matters.
So,
just to sum up:
It's a good idea for people to be fruitful and multiply;
and
Regardless of how you feel about the Church's stance on birth control,
it's proven pretty prophetic.
Just how can the secular humanism culture
of Obama answer the questions of a young girl in the video, Dear President Obama ?
The strong response of the Catholic bishops is long overdue. The need for
a full-blown crusade against the Godless elements in government is the true cause of the 21th century. The social destruction
that we witness all around is no accident. The vast majority of Americans are believers in the word of God, no matter what
particular faith or denomination they accept.
Liberty is the reward of being faithful to the tenants of the Sermon of
the Mount. Hope lies in the expectation that justice will one day be realized. The State and especially the social engineers
that reside in the Obama hierarchy seek the systematic dismantling of all constitutional restraint. Religion stands in their
way of completing their goal for Totalitarian Collectivism.
What is at stake in your immortal soul, so why would you freely give an undeserved
allegiance to a government that wants to eliminate your most precious beliefs and moral standards?
The POTUS is a heretic
and a religious outcast. As for his devotion to civil liberties, he is an atheist, since he rejects natural law as the underpinnings
of any social contact with government. Natural law comes from God. Obamacare resides in the deepest confines of Dante's Inferno.
Religious
wars may seem passé in an era of thermonuclear annihilation, but the only salvation from the insanity of the global
tyrants is to engage in spiritual and political combat with the objective of removing all fascists from bogus power and illegitimate
authority. The stage is set for a true Armageddon. It is time to send the arrogant Obama administration straight to hell.
“This latest
erosion of our first freedom should make all Americans pause. When the government tampers with a freedom so fundamental to
the life of our nation, one shudders to think what lies ahead.”
Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York
