Obama’s continued assault on Catholics

• The HHS Mandate demands that Catholic organizations pay for birth control and abortifacients.
• Another Obamacare mandate requires hospitals to be fined for taking charity cases.

Next up … Obama’s latest “Who cares about Congress?!” executive order mandates that

• any agency receiving federal assistance may not discriminate based on sexual orientation.

Sounds compassionate, right? Wrong. It will force Catholic charities (e.g., adoption agencies) to shut down rather than violate church teachings.

Even the left-of-center National Catholic Reporter understands what is at stake. Fr. Thomas Reese claims that “Depending on what exemptions [the executive order provides], the new requirement may affect Catholic Relief Services, Catholic hospitals, Catholic education, and other Catholic charities that received Federal funds.”

Fr. Reese reports that “In 2010, the Washington archdiocese … got out of the adoption business when gay marriage became legal in the city. It was also threatened with the loss of funding to help the poor when the city council required that employers with city contracts provide spousal benefits to gay employees. Instead, the charities eliminated spousal benefits for all future employees. Since heterosexual employees would not receive spousal benefits, the agencies could not be accused of discrimination.”  (Ital added by CtH)

Yeah, that really worked well. NOT.

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HHS Mandate was just the first step. Here comes a new attack on religious liberty.