Posted by Rachel Evans (October 23, 2012 at 10:12 am)
Stand Up Rally #3
Having secured speakers for the third Owensboro Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally, we expected a letter from our U.S. Congressman to be read to us by one of his staff members.
Moments before noon, she informed us that the Congressman was on his way to our rally! We were certainly pleased that he had rearranged a full schedule to come join us! Rep. Guthrie told the crowd that he would continue representing his constituents by vigorously fighting against the HHS Mandate.
“Rest assured I am doing my part in Washington to help overturn this destructive rule. As many of you know, I am a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Health Subcommittee which has held several hearings on this rule during which I have expressed my opposition. Additionally, I have cosponsored the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act, which would reverse this rule by allowing health plans to decline coverage of contraception when it conflicts with their religious beliefs. I will continue to hold the Obama Administration accountable and will continue to encourage my colleagues in Washington to do the same.”
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Posted by Monica Migliorino Miller (June 8, 2012 at 9:52 pm)
We had a wonderful lineup of speakers at the Detroit Rally today.
-Stacy Swimp
-Pastor Claude May
-Fr. Eric Fedewa
-Prof. Mary Healy
-Bishop Ira Combs
-Teresa Tomeo
-Sr. Rose Marie Kujawa
-Bishop Michael Byrnes
-And the musical talent of Dino Valle
Here is a great way to share the Religious Freedom Rally with friends or family who may have missed it.
Post this link on your social media page.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2BCE91CF77C16CE6
It is a full youtube playlist of all the Detroit speakers. By sharing this link, you help to extend the message that so many rallied for today.
We need to keep this conversation going at work, at home, when we are out in public, and in our own corner of the digital continent.
Posted by John Jansen (March 7, 2012 at 7:11 pm)
One of the more fascinating commentaries on the HHS Mandate that has appeared recently is that written by University of St. Thomas law professor Michael Stokes Paulsen, entitled “Obama’s Contraception Cram-down: The Pork Precedent.”
Paulsen’s use of the words “cram-down” was quite deliberate, calling it “a perfect term” to describe the HHS’s policy:
The whole point, it seems, is to override religious objections to such a policy to the maximum extent politically possible, out of an intense ideological commitment to contraception and abortion as ‘preventive health care.’ It is vital, the ideologues say, to prevail over religious objections precisely in order to advance, and permanently entrench, this particular ideology and, further, to vindicate the power of government to impose such policies on everyone. Religious objections must be overcome, in part for the sake of overcoming religious objections.
He goes on to say that the HHS Mandate calls to mind a story from the book of Fourth Maccabees, one of the books of the “Apocrypha.”
In the second century B.C., the Seleucid Emperor Antiochus IV Epiphanes decreed that all Jews would be forced to violate their consciences by eating pork and food sacrificed to idols. [Continue reading …]
