A Blow to Freedom

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  1. Obama, Sebelius declare war on religious liberty (via Liberty Counsel Action)

    Dear Patricia,

    President Obama and his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, have put people of faith and religious organizations squarely in their crosshairs! The ObamaCare contraceptive and abortifacient mandate that has erupted into front-page news is an overreaching government intrusion into the lives of all Americans – and is patently unconstitutional.

    Obama’s dictate has stirred up a firestorm of protest from religious organizations and is being likened to a slap across the face to people of faith.

    Liberty Counsel Action has been in this war for many, many years, and we feel this latest eruption is unique. Make no mistake – we are wholeheartedly standing with other groups that are strongly opposing this outrage, but we have known for a long time where ObamaCare’s implementation was heading!

  2. Thank you my friend! God bless!

    1. YW~ :mrgreen:

      God bless you, too!

  3. Savage: Founders envisioned ‘petty dictator’ like Obama

    ‘It was a man like him that they feared would come to possess the presidency’

  4. Obama Invokes NDAA Declaring Threat From Iran A National Emergency (video)

    President Obama invokes the NDAA, which authorizes the use of military force, and issues an executive order declaring the “threat” of Iran a National Emergency.

    1. The executive order directs all government agencies to respond immediately to the threat. It further invokes the authority of the 2012 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) which gives the President the power to launch military action against any nation without the approval of Congress.
      Ironically, the State of Emergency order also accuses the Iranian central bank of deceptive banking practices.

      1. Brookings: ‘Horrific Provocation’ and ‘Tehran-Sponsored 9/11′ Needed to Trigger Iran Invasion

        In a 2009 policy paper, published by the influential Brookings Institute, the authors propose almost anything to guarantee dominance of Persia, including such measures as bribery, lying, cheating and mass murdering in the shape of an all-out military assault on Iran. The paper ‘Which path to Persia: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran’ is just one of many recent and not so recent examples of an unwavering resolve by the Anglo-American establishment to engage Iran militarily and acquire its natural resources at the same time.

  5. All because he questioned Obama’s birthplace…
    The Persecution Of Terry Lakin

  6. ObamaCare’s Great Awakening

    HHS tells religious believers to go to hell. The public notices.

    1. To take a small example: The HHS rule prohibits out-of-pocket costs for birth control, simply because Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s regulators believe no woman should have to pay anything for it. To take a larger example: The Obama Administration’s legal defense of the mandate to buy insurance or else pay a penalty is that the mere fact of being alive gives the government the right to regulate all Americans at every point in their lives.

  7. We may have been given the ultimate gift. it seems that at the time of our despair, we have Santorum rise in the polls, and the sleeping giant of our faith is called upon to declair ourselves.

    1. I agree. But America still needs to bless God once again. He still, to this day, judges nations who reject Him and His creation (human beings especially, born and unborn).

  8. Evangelical Christians Standing with our Catholic Brethren against The Obama Regime

    On Thursday, January 19, Pope Benedict XVI remarked about this in his address to Region IV of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB):

    “In the light of these considerations, it is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.

    hattip: loopyloo~

  9. Catholic Dolan: Obama lied to me over HHS Mandate

    Beside the obvious fact that Dolan was gassed by Obama over the new HHS mandate, we get a glimpse into the future and how what and when we will receive specific services under Obamacare. How many others make the trek to the Oval Office and get their “dispensations”?

    1. Problem solved! Let’s just mooove along and forget the whole fiasco ever happened come November…

      So. No religious charities or organizations who offers insurance to their workers will have to pay for contraceptives because the health insurance provided by them will pay it. Boy! I am as dumb as a box of rocks but even I know that insurance is paid for by the employer. This solved nothing except to cause religious employers to drop insurance coverage for their employees.

      Oh. Well. There’s always Obamacare….

  10. The Obamacare Decree Isn’t Merely an Affront to Religious Liberty

    But this issue isn’t confined to the liberty of the Catholic Church or even to religious liberty more broadly; it affects the liberty of every American. It isn’t about the freedom to worship; it’s about the freedom to follow one’s own moral convictions, whether those convictions are religiously rooted or not. It’s about whether every American should be at liberty to decide what sort of health insurance he or she wants to buy, or whether Kathleen Sebelius — and hence Obama — should be empowered to decide what sort of health insurance 300 million citizens will be forced to buy.

  11. I Don’t Understand This Compromise

    Now, the Obama Administration has, by executive fiat, determined that a private company must give away its services to a class of people it (“the Administration”) has determined should get these services.

  12. When Karl Marx Speaks, Barack Obama Listens

    Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews – Democrat, Republican and independent alike. He has thrown down a radical feminist gauntlet and dared the Church to pick it up.

    They’ve picked it up.

    1. America: this arrogant, narcissistic, amoral man thinks you’re stupid. Who do you think pays for the insurance policies that provide “free” birth control, sterilizations and abortifacients to employees? Why, the very religious organizations doctrinally prohibited from paying for these “services” in the first place, of course.

      …and the employees who make their payments for coverage…

  13. Eric Holder’s Political Prosecution of Pro-Life Educator Thrown Out of Court

    Judge suspects conspiracy between Eric Holder’s DOJ and abortion clinic to violate pro-lifers’ First Amendment rights

    1. Judge Ryskamp chastised Holder for seeking to apply federal law in a clearly unconstitutional manner: “Stretching the terms of FACE to apply to this case … so that a desire to provide people with information about alternatives to abortion constitutes an unlawful motive, would unjustifiably impinge on Ms. Pine’s First Amendment rights.”

  14. Judicial Watch Files Amicus Curiae Brief with U.S. Supreme Court Challenging Constitutionality of Obamacare

    “The President’s socialist healthcare overhaul is an affront to the U.S. Constitution’s provisions for limited government,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The time has come for the U.S. Supreme Court to put an end to Obamacare once and for all.”

  15. Obama fails to tell Americans the danger of contraception

    Lanfranchi, a breast surgical oncologist, has compared the pill to a molotov cocktail that you throw at a young girl’s breast; she has wondered how often physicians prescribe a Group 1 carcinogen. These risks are increased if women have never been pregnant, are black Americans, and/or do not possess what are called “protective genes” — known as BRCA2 or BRCA1.

  16. Turkey Sandwiches and Birth Control Mandates: If They’re Not Stopped Now, How Far Will They Go?

    Even by those guidelines, I’m not sure why this one little child’s lunch was rejected, but that is not really the point. The things we give our children to eat is none of the government’s business! If we let them get away with this, where will it end?

    1. As Jon Bruning told LifeSiteNews.com, “This is about much more than contraception. This is about the federal government once again stepping in and trying to tell people how to live their lives. I’m very troubled by it- not only troubled, I’m willing to use the litigation power of the state of Nebraska to file yet another lawsuit against the federal government, because it’s really our only option to push back.” Joining Nebraska is: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.

    1. In reality, they know exactly what they’re doing. They know they can’t completely ignore the Constitution, so they chip away at the edges. Once one part is chipped off it’s easier to chip away others.

      This week, the president wasn’t chipping … he was trying to take a jackhammer to the First Amendment. When he ordered Catholic organizations to provide birth control, sterilization and the morning-after pill to all their employees, free of charge, against church dogma, there was outrage. That outrage was justifiable.

    2. Progressives cheered the order as a triumph for women, as if the free birth control pills given out at clinics across the country, the low price of condoms and the in-expense of simply not having sex were not option enough for people. No, the government had to go further. Without any sense of hypocrisy, the “keep-your- religion-out-of-our-politics” crowd lauded the insertion of government into religion.

  17. Life–God’s or Caesar’s?

    And why we should never cede the ownership to the state! Life begins at conception and ends at death, this is not a question of religion, this is established medical science. There are those who disagree about whether conception equals a baby or not in some minds, that quite frankly is beside the point. An egg that has been fertilized is alive, it divides, it starts forming limbs, organs, a brain, it is alive. If it were not, these actions would be impossible.

    1. Thank you for the link Sherry, excellent post!

      1. How could I not link to your post? You said it so well.

  18. An Open Letter to President Obama via Christianity.com Daily Update

    I understand from public reports that you taught a course in Constitutional law at the University of Chicago some years ago, though I have not seen a publication of your class syllabus for that course. I note, too, that you were graduated from Harvard University School of Law. I assume that you took a course in Constitutional law while attending Harvard, though a transcript of your Harvard course work indicating such a course has not been published.

  19. The Rising Fever of Despotism

    The thing to understand about the Department of Health and Human Services’ birth-control mandate, and the last, is that it is an assault on both faithful Christians and the Constitution by leftists who consider themselves at “war” — their word — with bourgeois America. It has nothing to do with guaranteeing access to contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacients. [...]

    hattip:Kim~

    1. Now Congress passes two thousand pages of overview legislation that specifically permits the unelected, unappointed, and unconfirmed bureaucrats to add cauldrons full of the devil brew to the details of new legislation. The Founders of this country would be aghast at the powers so easily forfeited by Congress and hoarded by the Executive branch.

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