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U.S. House Hearing, "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State"
Tomorrow, February 16, the U.S. House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing addressing the question, "Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?" It starts at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C., but it will be streamed live at this link. Read More >>
Birth-Control Mandate: Unconstitutional and Illegal
Obama's Epic Blunder on Birth-Control Mandate
Michael Gerson at the Washington Post responds to Andrew Sullivan's assertion that the Obama-Sebelius "contraceptives" mandate may have been an ingenious political trap that Mr. Obama set for religious conservatives: "Consider the implications of this praise. It means that Obama assaulted the core beliefs of some of his fellow citizens in order to lure them into politically self-destructive behavior." Read More >>
Some Progress, But More Required
Stanley Carlson-Thies at the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance notes that the Obama-Sebelius HHS finalized the offending "contraceptives" mandate rule "without any changes at all" but points out that "after months of resistance, the administration now concedes that it cannot limit its accommodation of religious concerns only to churches." Read More >>
The HHS Contraception Mandate vs. the Religious Freedom Restoration Act - Obamacare Does Not Trump RFRA
Link to a series of six posts (Jan. 26-30, 2012) by EPPC President Ed Whelan presenting a robust analysis undermining the Obama Administration’s shaky legal justification for the religious-freedom violations mandated by HHS’s August 2011 and January 2012 HHS decisions. Read More >>
Nothing but Squid Ink
Ed Haislmaier and Jennifer Marshall write at National Review Online: “The Obama administration [on February 10] put into federal law the very [HHS] regulation that drew objections from almost 200 Catholic bishops, some 50 religiously affiliated colleges and universities, 65 North American bishops of Orthodox churches, numerous other Jewish, Evangelical, and Lutheran leaders ... without changing so much as a comma.” Read More >>
Statement by Richard Land of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission to President Obama's Revised Mandate
Dr. Richard Land, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, gives voice to the views of his constituents and of members of other faith communities who are “outraged with President Obama’s so-called compromise on his administration’s abortion mandate.” Read More >>
United We Stand for Religious Freedom
Three Jewish, Evangelical, and Catholic co-authors address why the debate over the HHS mandate is not at root about contraceptives or the Catholic Church but, instead, a fundamental debate about religious liberty. Read More >>
Three Jewish, Evangelical, and Catholic co-authors address why the debate over the HHS mandate is not at root about contraceptives or the Catholic Church but, instead, a fundamental debate about religious liberty. Read More >>
Catholics, Conscience and Contraception
Obamacare vs. the Catholics
Jonathan Last at the Weekly Standard reviews the Catholic Church’s response and the responses of liberal and conservative Catholic laity to the January 20 HHS rule mandating coverage of “contraceptives.” Read More >>
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