A year ago, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued a “preventive services” regulation under Obamacare. This regulation requires almost all health care plans to cover, without fees or co-pay, sterilizations, artificial contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.
The U.S. Catholic bishops have unanimously condemned this regulation. Calling it “illegal and unjust”, the bishops have encouraged all American Catholics to disobey it.
In October of 2012, the Catholic Kennedy family that owns Autocam sued the government over this issue.
Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled against them, saying the sole owners’ First Amendment rights don’t count, because “the mandate falls on Autocam.”
It does not matter to the court that the Kennedys are the sole owners of Autocom or that they are great bosses to their 661 employees, precisely because they live their Catholic-Christian faith in every aspect of their business.
The Kennedys intend to appeal their case to the Supreme Court.
Anna Maria Chávez, head of Girl Scouts USA, says her favorite quote is:
“Tell me who you hang out with and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Okay. I’ll tell you.
GSUSA hangs out with people and organizations that openly promote teen sex, legal prostitution, abortion, infanticide and euthanasia.
Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) is a co-founder and largest financial supporter of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS).
In May 2013, WAGGGS participated in “Women Deliver”, a global conference whose featured speakers included Dr. LeRoy Carhart, one of the most notorious late-term abortionists in the country; philosopher Peter Singer, supporter of not just abortion, but infanticide and euthanasia; and Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, instigator of the HHS mandate forcing Pro-Lifers to pay for abortions.
Session titles included “Outing and Addressing Abortion Stigma” and “Why I Perform Abortions.” Exhibitors included many abortion advocates including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Amnesty International, Guttmacher Institute, , Marie Stopes International, and the United Nations Population Fund.
In December 2012, WAGGGS and International Planned Parenthood Federation worked together to create the Bali Youth Declaration, a document which called for abortion rights for youth, comprehensive sex education and the “decriminalization of sex work” (prostitution).
GSUSA also maintains membership in The Coalition for Adolescent Girls, which similarly promotes comprehensive sex education and abortions for young girls.
The GSUSA curriculum (the Journey series used and promoted by every Girl Scout council) encourages girls to work with or research activist groups. The groups recommended in the curriculum demonstrate the organization’s immoral far-left agenda. Many (like Planned Parenthood) are actively pro-abortion; none are pro-life.
Federal Judge Robert H. Cleland (Michigan) issued a decision issued late Wednesday, October 31, 2012, affirming that “potential for harm to plaintiffs exists, and with the showing plaintiffs have made thus far of being able to convincingly prove their case at trial, it is properly characterized as irreparable.”
The judge’s decision means the federal government will not be allowed to enforce its HHS mandate until the lawsuit is resolved.
In an earlier case in Denver, U.S. District Judge John J. Kane of Colorado issued a similar order preventing enforcement of the mandate.
The “HHS mandate” is a set of regulations adopted by Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services, run by the emphatically pro-abortion Kathleen Sebelius, that forces employers, regardless of religious faith, to pay for insurance coverage for contraception, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization.
The purpose of the Cabinet is both to advise the President and to rein in any attempts by him to abuse his power. Reagan and George W. Bush each met with their Cabinets 36 times in their first year alone.
Obama has convened his Cabinet only twice in the past 8 months. He has met individually with his Secretaries of Defense (18), Treasury (15), and State (14), plus one meeting each with Agriculture and Veterans Affairs. But he has not sat down with the other ten at all.
Some of these omissions are particularly puzzling.
How could he not meet with Attorney General Eric H. Holder even once during all that time Congress had Holder on the hot seat, then voted to hold him in contempt? And where did he get the nerve to grant Holder “executive privilege” when they hadn’t even talked?
Gas prices are still killing us all, at the pumps and in higher prices for everything that gets shipped anywhere, which is pretty much everything. Yet Obama never once met with his Secretary of Energy.
He also never met with his Secretaries of Commerce or Labor, despite record-high unemployment and record-low economic growth.
And did someone call off that terrorist threat thing? Obama never met with his Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
He also never met with Kathleen Sebelius, his Secretary of Health and Human Services and the author of the HHS mandate that has led to dozens of lawsuits and a revolt among formerly loyal-to-Democrats Catholics.
In 2008, we tried to talk to our liberal pastor about Obama’s pro-abortion history. She responded by giving us a 3-page article xeroxed from a liberal magazine about why the Democratic Party’s alleged support for civil rights and help for the poor made them the better choice than selfish, greedy Republicans.
We both read it carefully and found it to be an illogical, garbled list of Democrat talking points. There was not a shred of Catholic teaching or Biblical truth in it.
I bought her a copy of Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism: Who Gives, Who Doesn’t, and Why It Matters by Arthur C. Brooks.
She sent me a snippy email “thanking” me for the gift, saying she had no plans to read it “now or ever.”
So much for open-minded dialogue between people of faith.
The summer of 2009, when the Leftist media was reporting very negatively on ObamaCare protests … for example, neglecting to point out that the incidents of violence were perpetrated by the pro-ObamaCare protesters against the antis, not the other way around … our deacon published an illogical, garbled justification for why the antis were all greedy and selfish.
So much for non-judgmental dialogue between people of faith.
His only actual justification for supporting ObamaCare was this: “When my mother was dying, I was grateful for her Medicare.” He also said it was very bad when people bit each other at protests. (I always wondered if he knew that the biter was on his side, while the man who lost part of his finger to the oh-so-tolerant Democrat supporter was on my side.)
When the Catholic bishops finally got a clue and came out against ObamaCare, the liberal pastor at the next parish over gave the official statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops equal billing on the parish web-site with the pro-ObamaCare statement by a group of 40 nuns.
Am I being overly-judgmental in characterizing Pro-Choice Catholic arguments as “illogical” and “garbled”? I’ll let you be the judge. In the video, the off-camera voice notes that the Catholic bishops are opposed to the HHS mandate. The voice then asks if Pelosi will stand with her fellow Catholics in resisting this law OR stand with the administration to impose it?
Pelosi says “I will stick with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this.”
That’s not a typo. Listen for yourself.
“Illogical?” “Garbled?” Hell, yes.
Today, angelaisms sent me a link to this article:
America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President By David Barton – February 29, 2012
David Barton is the historian who did the American Heritage DVDs I raved about a couple days ago.
The whole article is worth reading, but too long to share here in full. I do want to copy-paste the section that deals with Obama’s pro-abortion, anti-life actions since becoming President of the United States:
January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations.
January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional.
March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit.
March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations.
May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities.
July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion.
September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion.
This is not a comprehensive list. For example, there was the appointment of Catholic Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of HHS, the agency that formulated the famous HHS mandate to deprive Pro-Lifers of their First Amendment rights.
While Sebelius was governor of Kansas, she was buddies with George Tiller the Baby Killer. In this video interview, she calls him a “health care provider.”
How close were George and Kathleen?
During her time in office, Governor Sebelius used her veto power three times to protect late-term abortionists, which in Kansas meant George Tiller.
In April 2007, Sebelius held a party at the governor’s mansion to honor Tiller. Only Tiller, his wife, and his clinic staff were invited.
For his part, Tiller spent millions funding Sebelius and the Democratic Party — $1.2 million in the 2006 election cycle alone.
Like other Catholic Pro-Choicers (e.g., Kennedy, Pelosi, Kerry, Biden), Sebelius claims she can be a faithful Catholic and still take money from and hand out political favors to the abortion industry.
John Paul II, continuing the constant teaching of the Church, has reiterated many times that those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a grave and clear obligation to oppose any law that attacks human life. For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them.
There cannot be two parallel lives in their existence: on the one hand, the so-called ‘spiritual life’, with its values and demands; and on the other, the so-called ‘secular’ life, that is, life in a family, at work, in social responsibilities, in the responsibilities of public life and in culture.
No Catholic can responsibly take a “pro-choice” stand when the “choice” in question involves the taking of innocent human life.
We urge those Catholic officials who choose to depart from Church teaching on the inviolability of human life in their public life to consider the consequences for their own spiritual well being, as well as the scandal they risk by leading others into serious sin.
[N]o appeal to policy, procedure, majority will or pluralism ever excuses a public official from defending life to the greatest extent possible.
Those who justify their inaction on the grounds that abortion is the law of the land need to recognize that there is a higher law, the law of God
Sebelius’ ordinary, Archbishop Joseph Naumann, has warned Sebelius several times of her infidelity to Church teaching. When she was nominated as head of HHS, Bishop Naumann called Obama’s choice “offensive” and wrote:
“Because of her long history both as a legislator and governor of consistently supporting legalized abortion and after many months of dialogue, I requested Governor Sebelius not to present herself for communion.”
Archbishop Raymond Burke, prefect of the Apostolic Signature in Rome, backed him up, stating publicly that Sebelius should not present herself for Holy Communion no matter where she was.
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Source: ‘To Hell With You’ @ diopitt.org/bridging-gap/hell-you
Sorry … I can’t get this URL to heat up or work right. If you go to the addy above, it will tell you “The page you requested does not exist. For your convenience, a search was performed using the query bridging gap hell you.” The top choice is the article. And its URL is precisely what I posted. Oy.
One thought about this. The article by Bishop David A. Zubik begins, “It is really hard to believe that it happened. It comes like a slap in the face.”
“It is really hard to believe” ????? Seriously!?
Dear Bishop, where have you BEEN all these years?! Barack Obama BLOCKED legislation in the Illinois Senate that would have provided medical assistance and comfort care to live-born abortion survivors.
How is it surprising that a man who wouldn’t give so much as a BLANKET to a dying NEWBORN would violate the conscience rights of millions of Americans?
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