Contents tagged with conscience
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Geoffrey Surtees | 2:36 PM Jun. 28, 2012
The Fight Against the HHS Mandate Moves Forward
As reported and described here and here, the Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act and the Individual Mandate, the provision under Obamacare requiring millions of Americans to purchase and indefinitely maintain health insurance or face annual penalties. Much commentary is sure to follow regarding the many consequences and implications of today’s decision, but one thing needs to be made abundantly clear: though the challenges to the Individual Mandate ... 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: ObamaCare | by Jordan Sekulow | 2:14 PM May. 21, 2012
Catholic Institutions Follow their Conscience
If there is one freedom our country has consistently cherished, it is the right to freedom of conscience: the right to act or not to act as conscience dictates. Thomas Jefferson wrote that “no provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of civil authority.” Indeed, even before the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution in 1775 exempting pacifist... Continue Reading
Filed in: Pro Life | by Geoffrey Surtees | 2:12 PM Dec. 7, 2011
Nancy Pelosi Does It Again
The House Minority Leader has done it again. A few weeks back, Nancy Pelosi was asked about the Protect Life Act and Catholic Bishops supporting the bill. (Among other things, the Protect Life Act prohibits discrimination against health care professionals and entities from participating in abortion procedures.) Ms. Pelosi expressed her opposition to the bill and the bishops with the snide remark, “I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it … but they have this cons... Continue Reading
Filed in: US Constitution | by Jordan Sekulow | 11:28 AM Dec. 6, 2011
Rep. Pelosi, Conscience is More Than a ‘Thing’
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Nancy Pelosi voiced her opposition to allow health care providers and entities to refuse to perform abortions for reasons of conscience. Knowing full well the efforts by the Catholic Church to encourage support for such conscience exemptions, Ms. Pelosi said, “I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it … but they have this conscience thing.” With respect to the House Minority Leader, Ms. Pelosi not only needs a... Continue Reading