[Campion]

If they do, if they take money from the feds - this is what happens. They have to dance to what the feds want.

For the 5,000th time on FR:

1. This has nothing to do with "taking money from the feds". It's a mandate on ALL employers. It affects Catholic schools, which get no money from government at all, just as much as Catholic hospitals.
2. You can't have a full-service hospital in this country and not take government money. Emergency rooms are required to treat all comers by law, or shut down. If you don't take Medicare and Medicaid, that means you treat a good 1/2 of your patients -- many of whom are the sickest patients you see -- for free. That's a recipe for bankruptcy, and quick bankruptcy at that.

[Trailerpark Badass]

Don't begrudge them another opportunity to rail against the giant Catholic edifice that haunts their imaginations.

I mean, so what if they alienate the numerous Catholics on this site who obviously didn't vote for Obama or support Obamacare? We must be complicit in some way, by failing to influence someone or not "excommunicating" someone else.

It must provide them with some kind of comfort.

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: “This has nothing to do with “taking money from the feds”. It’s a mandate on ALL employers. It affects Catholic schools, which get no money from government at all, just as much as Catholic hospitals.

You can’t have a full-service hospital in this country and not take government money. Emergency rooms are required to treat all comers by law, or shut down. If you don’t take Medicare and Medicaid, that means you treat a good 1/2 of your patients — many of whom are the sickest patients you see — for free. That’s a recipe for bankruptcy, and quick bankruptcy at that.”

Thanks for setting me straight on this. I do appreciate the info. The Obama administration is clearly violating the First Amendment on this.