Posted on 02/13/2012 11:17:31 AM PST by C19fan
Heres an aspect of the HHS preventive-services mandate and the compromise announced on Friday that has gone unnoticed: It will soon be impossible, because it would be illegal, to be a faithful Catholic in America running a health-insurance company. Fridays announcement that health-insurance companies will be required to provide free coverage of contraceptives, sterilization procedures, and abortifacients entails that citizens cannot operate a health-insurance company in accord with their moral values, if those moral values happen to align with historic Christianity rather than Obama.
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Who was it that said Catholics should not consider employment in health care?
Let’s require all Muslim owned markets to carry bacon.
I know "formal" cooperation with evil is always evil. (Cooperating eith an evil deed fully intentionally.)
I know "remote material cooperation" is generally innocent. (Installing tile flooring in a medical complex where some of the rooms are used for abortions.)
And there are other gradations of what kind of cooperation is forbidden, and what is not forbidden.
Can anybody help me out here?
The Catholic apologist website Jimmyakin.org is good for this kind of stuff. He mentioned the Amazon.com example in an old podcast.
It should be illegal to be a DICTATOR IN THE WHITE HOUSE!
Bump for later reading.
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