Terence P. Jeffrey
CNS News
April 19, 2012
“You don’t want to buy it, fine. We’ll fine you into oblivion.”
That, says a lawyer representing a number of Catholic institutions, is what the Obama administration will say to his clients if the federal courts do not strike down a regulation the administration has issued that requires all health insurance plans to cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptives, including those that induce abortions.
The Catholic Church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are wrong. For faithful Catholic individuals, or institutions, to comply with the administration’s regulation, they would need to violate their consciences and the teachings of their church.
The lawyer, Mark Rienzi of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, says he is confident the federal courts will rule in favor of Catholics and religious liberty and against the Obama administration in cases challenging the administration’s sterilization-contraception-abortifacient regulation. But he is also confident that if the courts do not rule against the regulation, the Obama administration will attempt to literally fine Catholic institutions in the United States out of existence.
“I think the court cases are all going to come out the exact right way, which is the president is not allowed to threaten religious liberty like this,” Rienzi told CNSNews.com in an Online With Terry Jeffrey interview.
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its ALL pretty pointless when the critters in DC are sterilizing everyone possible anyway.
DC-FDA-USDA-EPA approved monsatan bio-weapons everywhere!
Gotta drop that pesky World population by 5 BILLION remember? The ‘illumined’ Bill Gates said so…
Oh my yes!
We MUST start with a country that haz 300 million!
Nevermind those muslim filth holes of inbred, retarded, mutated, and unwanted billions!
Interesting to see how this will fly, because the Holy Roman Catholic Church is the most powerful institution on Earth. We all know the Church use to use assassins to take care of business. Assassins Creed the game? Humm. I do not incite violence or threats, but Obama is playing Russian Roulette with the many countries and religions…