United We Stand for Religious Freedom
Stories involving a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew typically end with a punch line. We wish that were the case here, but what brings us together is no laughing matter: the threat now posed by government policy to that basic human freedom, religious liberty. – WSJ
By DONALD WUERL, CHARLES COLSON AND MEIR Y. SOLOVEICHIK
at The Wall Street Journal
Last month the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Affordable Care Act requires employers to pay for insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations and contraception.
Her notion of an “appropriate balance” between religious freedom and “increasing access” to “important preventive services” stands the First Amendment on its head.
Washington wrote that U.S. citizens had a “right to applaud themselves” for setting an example of “an enlarged and liberal policy” that enshrined freedom of conscience.
Yet instead of encouraging the different faith communities to continue their vital work for the good of all, the Obama administration is forcing them to make a choice: serving God and their neighbors according to the dictates of their respective faiths—or bending the knee to the dictates of the state.
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