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The religious institution won’t have to pay for contraception or abortion pills BUT its insurer will have to offer those things free to the employees. Someone needs to tell Obama that nothing is free. This semantics gymnastics will force insurers to raise prices on religious institutions that have the objection. In effect those institutions will still be paying for it through higher premiums. If the Catholics went for this they mad a deal with the devil.

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

“This is a great example of where the American people were duped by the Obama administration and the health care law,” Graves said in an interview with TheDC at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference. – Daily Caller

Let’s be clear: the concern on the part of radical secularists attacking the Church and the military is not the danger of insurrection. The true goal is the replacement of the current spiritual ethos of the American military and even the Church with a radically secular ethos. It is the subjection of conscience to the boot of the state. – American Thinker

“Here [Obama] is, arrogantly imposing these regulations that clearly discriminate against Catholics and all Christians, as well as people of any faith who believe in the sanctity of innocent human life. This has clearly become a human rights case — and is no longer just a partisan political football.”

[W]hile time and money are on the Governor’s side, the Pennsylvania underdog is proving that a consistent message more than makes up for the lack. As Santorum said about his failed reelection bid in 2006, the one thing he didn’t lose is his principles. And in a campaign for the soul of America, they may be the most valuable asset of all.

The government will force the Church’s institutions (hospitals, schools, charities) to act in a way Catholics consider sinful: to directly buy insurance for birth control, sterilization, and drugs that act as abortifacients. No, the government isn’t forcing employees to use those insured services. But forcing Catholic institutions to pay for those services makes the Church complicit in those acts. – Business Insider

New York schools kick churches out. Heavenly Visions has met in I.S. 52 for 12 years now, most recently paying the New York City Department of Education almost $10,000 per year for the privilege. Soon, unless others overrule the educrat edict, many churches will be homeless and many schools will be poorer. – World Magazine

“The Obama administration has declared war on religious freedom in this country and people need to understand that. This is a decision so totally outrageous and an illustration of such radical secular ideology ….. It has to do with whether or not the government of the United States can tell a religious institution you must give up your religious beliefs.”

Back in 1961 then actor and General Electric spokesman, Ronald Reagan, warned America: “One of the traditional ways of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine…” Reagan went on to describe how a secularist government would use national health care to advance other leftist agendas.