Posted on 01/22/2012 2:48:51 PM PST by marshmallow
It’s David vs. Goliath.
It’s the small Catholic college in North Carolina vs. the Obama administration. The outcome will decide the fate of religious liberty in this country.
When it was announced last year that the Obama administration intended to force religious institutions to pay for contraceptive drugs –including those that would cause abortions there were letters sent by many of the leading Catholic organizations, press statements delivered, and meetings with the Obama administration held asking for a wider religious exemption.
But it wasn’t the Catholic Health Association which had endorsed Obamacare, not Catholic Charities, not Notre Dame which had honored the President in order to further dialogue, or even mushy tsk-tsks from Sister Keehan that did anything to help.
No. It was the tiny Catholic school with the President who said he’d rather close the school down than comply with the administration’s wishes on contraception and abortifacients.
But College President Bill Thierfelder said he doesn’t believe it will come to that. And there’s reason to believe he’s right because Belmont Abbey has partnered with The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a small law firm committed to defending religious liberty.
You might remember the name because just week they won a case against the powerful Obama administration before the Supreme Court. 9-0. A unanimous ruling that prevented the White House from deciding who religious institutions could hire and fire.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org ...
Belmont Abbet is about 25 minutes from where I live. Funny thing, the Charlotte ‘Disturber’ has not printed one article about this story.
Two of my brothers went to this school many years ago. Visited myself a couple of times. Great school.
“The Becket Fund’s work is more than “good”. It’s vital.”
...Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Cardinal of Philadelphia
I highly respect this good man. Perhaps we have found another entity worthy of donations.
We chose Belmont Abbey for our daughter, and it is an island of sanity and sanctity in a sea of apostate Catholic higher education. We couldn’t have been happier we did.
We chose Belmont Abbey for our daughter, and it is an island of sanity and sanctity in a sea of apostate Catholic higher education. We couldn’t have been happier we did.
We chose Belmont Abbey for our daughter, and it is an island of sanity and sanctity in a sea of apostate Catholic higher education. We couldn’t have been happier we did.
We chose Belmont Abbey for our daughter, and it is an island of sanity and sanctity in a sea of apostate Catholic higher education. We couldn’t have been happier we did.
Oh really!?
If the situation is so dire does that mean the bishops won't support Obama this year?
It sounds like more hyperbole from an church that wants Goliath to go beat up the rich guy down the street, but have the curtsey not to do the same to the church.
A better option is for the church to align itself with Goliath's other enemies and band together to take down a common foe.
A simple bow will do.
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