Contents tagged with Catholic
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Edward White | 8:00 AM Aug. 24, 2012
Ending the Abortion-Pill Mandate, ACLJ & 79 Members of Congress File in 12 Lawsuits
The American Center for Law & Justice (“ACLJ”), along with seventy-nine Members of Congress, has submitted “friend of the court” briefs in twelve separate lawsuits brought by more than forty Catholic organizations. The Catholic organizations, including the Archdiocese of New York, the University of Notre Dame, and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago, are challenging the HHS mandate. The mandate requires employers to cover sterilization, prescription con... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Geoffrey Surtees | 2:25 PM May. 30, 2012
Challenging the Mandate: Not Just for Catholics
Last week, twelve lawsuits involving forty-three Catholic schools, dioceses, and charities were filed in federal courts across the country. These suits challenge the HHS abortifacient-sterilization-contraception mandate and its unconstitutional coercion of conscience. One might be tempted to think the pending challenges to the HHS mandate, including those filed last week and the ACLJ case on behalf of a Catholic business owner, constitute a Catholic issue only. Not true. Soon after HHS Secret... Continue Reading
Filed in: US Constitution | by Edward White | 1:27 PM Apr. 25, 2012
Unity Will Defeat the Attack on Religion in This Country
People of faith across the globe have been under attack for many years. The Obama Administration has ramped up the attack in this country over the past three years. In the face of this increased attack on religion, the United States Catholic Bishops have released a Statement calling for "A Fortnight of Freedom." From June 21 to July 4 of this year, events will be held across the country to highlight the need for all Americans to defend our religious liberty. The obvious impetus for the Bishops... Continue Reading
Filed in: Free Speech | by David French | 4:30 PM Apr. 19, 2012
The Battle of Vanderbilt: The Tennessee Legislature Steps Up
One of the (many) great advantages of living in Tennessee is a legislature with a backbone. I've been reporting on a showdown here in Tennessee between Vanderbilt University, its religious students, and concerned alumni. The university has decided that its religious organizations are subject to a so-called "all-comers" policy and must be open to non-Christian leadership. At the same time, it has exempted the university's powerful Greek organizations — allowing the campus's most discriminat... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Geoffrey Surtees | 1:12 PM Feb. 15, 2012
Obama Stonewalls on Abortion Drug Mandate as Senate Votes
Later today, the Senate is expected to vote on an amendment that would revoke the provision of President Obama’s mandate that forces religious and prolife institutions to violate their religious beliefs by providing insurance coverage for abortion drugs. The Administration’s ongoing and repeated claims that opposition to the contraceptive mandate is playing politics is nothing short of ironic, not to mention disingenuous. Indeed, what the President and his administration pulled last... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Matthew Clark | 4:11 PM Feb. 10, 2012
What President Obama’s “Accommodation” of Religious Liberty Accomplished
Nothing. In reaction to the outcry of the American people over the Obama Administration’s decision to force religious institutions to violate their religious beliefs by providing insurance coverage for abortion pills for their employees, President Obama unveiled an “accommodation” that was anything but. President Obama began by calling the religious liberty objections raised by many Americans, the “cynical desire on the part of some to make this into a political footbal... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Geoffrey Surtees | 2:43 PM Feb. 8, 2012
President Obama, We Will Not Be Silent on Religious Liberty
The outcry in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ declaration of war against religious civil liberties has been nothing short of enormous. Catholic Bishops in more than 164 locations have publicly denounced the administration’s actions. In a bipartisan letter to Kathleen Sebelius, 154 Members of Congress voiced their “strong opposition” to the HHS mandate and urged the secretary to reconsider the mandate in light of “constitutionally protected c... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by David French | 3:26 PM Feb. 6, 2012
We’re All Catholics Now
I’m not the first to comment on the Obama administration’s breathtaking assault on religious liberty, I won’t be the last, and I’m certainly not the most eloquent. I am, however, a lawyer prepared to do something about it. At issue are two competing visions of religion in American public life. For the Obama administration — beginning with its stance that federal employment laws trumped even a religious organization’s selection of its own ministers and now exte... Continue Reading
Filed in: Free Speech | by David French | 10:49 AM Feb. 2, 2012
Vanderbilt University’s Assault on Religious Liberty
A remarkable thing is happening down here in Nashville. An old story — a university attempts to throw Christian student groups off campus unless they are open to non-Christian leadership — has a very new twist. Hundreds of Christian students are mobilizing against the policy and challenging the administration directly. Tuesday night, Vanderbilt held a “town hall” to discuss the policy, and the room was packed with students wearing white (the color students chose to signal... Continue Reading
