Thought exercise question: What happens if Catholic institutions refuse to comply and continue to offer Catholic health care anyway? Does the IRS start kicking in doors and hauling Catholics off to jail? If playing Obama’s game within the existing legal framework is fruitless, would mass street action be more effective? How about excommunicating leading Obama Administration Catholics?
This should have been done a long time ago, or at least restrict their receiving the Eucharist.
The truth of the matter is that government enforces its will through violence.
If the church really will not comply, either with the mandate or the consequences for not complying with the mandate,
eventually violence will be used by the government.
We’ll see how far this non-compliance goes.
Sebellius has already been effectively excommunicated; she has been publicly instructed by her bishop NOT to present herself for Holy Communion.
She shows no outward sign of repentance. Quite the contrary, in fact.