America was founded on an idea that Americans could pursue their own happiness by farming their own land, digging their own wells, drilling for their own oil, panning for their own gold, providing for their own safety, and generally being left alone. Today government won’t allow or seriously curtails the rights of Americans in all those areas.
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Religion and the 2012 Elections
The Founding Fathers believed that only men of “virtue” could lead America and only citizens who practiced virtue in their lives could preserve and protect the republic. They were right.
The Struggle for Civil Rights, 2012
The idea is to use Western sensibilities and civil liberties, notably, respect for the free practice of religion, to deny the rest of us our fundamental freedoms. These include the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and, yes, freedom of religion.
New Catholic Cardinal signs interfaith letter against Obamacare mandate
Cardinal Dolan, joined more than 500 leading scholars, university presidents and other academic administrators, activists, and religious leaders from a multitude of faiths, in a statement rejecting the governmental Health and Human Services mandate requiring employers to provide, directly or indirectly, insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations, and contraceptives, and also rejecting President Obama’s so-called “accommodation” of religious liberty as a mere “accounting trick” that changes nothing of moral substance.
Obama’s Perpetual War on Religious Liberty
It will be fascinating to see how many Democratic politicians up for reelection this November side with Obama and against religious organizations. Liberals are just fine with throwing some Democratic incumbents overboard to advance far-left goals, just as the enactment of ObamaCare in 2010 cost many Democrats their congressional seats.
Why is the Catholic Church Surprised?
Elections have consequences. If Americans continue in their willingness to surrender more of their liberty in order to receive another entitlement, we will even further embolden those, who, while claiming to serve us, are seeking to become our masters.
Obama Obeys the Feminists Again
Barack Obama and his Administration are the lackeys of the feminists. And furthermore, they must think the American people are too stupid to see through the deception he is trying to put over on us.
Christian Leaders Urgent Call to Defend Religious Liberty
James Dobson and Chuck Colson. The Obama administration is going to extreme measures to take away the values we, as Christians, hold dear. In light of recent events in Washington, Dr. Dobson and Chuck Colson discuss the issues of infringement of religious liberties and legislation being pushed through. There is a war at hand and it is time for us to stop sitting on the sidelines. Listen, be inspired and get involved.
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
The Catholic Church Has Launched A Fight Against Obama That’s Unprecedented In American History
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