Posted on 02/09/2012 4:58:33 AM PST by Kaslin
They won’t be able to refuse to offer health insurance. And for every day they do not provide this, they will be fined some huge amount of money.
The Church is subject to this law because Catholic educational and charitable activities serve not only Catholics, but anyone who needs their services. A group like the Amish who restrict all of their activities to other Amish wouldn’t be subject to it, but there is no way that the Church can possibly (or should) restrict its services only to Catholics.
The whole point of this is to destroy the public charitable activities of the Church and to drive the Church out of the public square altogether, because it is the one obstacle to the religion of the State.
This does not affect only programs that accept government funding, and in fact a lot of Church charitable activities are purely privately funded.
This affects the Church simply as an employer, the way it will affect all employers eventually. You might want to review the facts. It has nothing to do with government funding.
Usully they finish their cases before the end of the summer.
Let's hope they toss out the entire law as unconstitutional.
That would be a great solution!
Re-read my post. When you take the devil’s money, he’s going to extract his due. If you don’t believe that, you’re naive.
Huh? I re-read your post and it still didn’t make sense in this context.
This had nothing to with money, government payments, subsidies or anything else. This is an involuntary program that forces EVERY employer who deals with the public to provide these services.
In other words, if the Church provided its charitable and educational services only to Catholics, it could be exempted. But it doesn’t and it never has, because Our Lord told us that our neighbor was not the person in our group but the person nearest us who needed help. Money is not a consideration and you’re missing the whole point.
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