Posted on 03/27/2012 1:19:45 PM PDT by NYer
It's not that we don't understand; the newsworthy aspect here is not that the Federal government can decide who to grant money, but the cut-off-my-nose-to-spit-my-face mentality of the said government.
Here is the problem simplified:
-- "Mine is a Catholic organization that works to eliminate (murder, theft, fraud, poverty, child obesity, -- insert your own) because (murder, theft, fraud, poverty, child obesity) violate the Catholic principles."
-- "Ah, Catholic? Grant denied"
Ship of fools.
When a Catholic pharmacist refuses to sell contraception, he can’t claim a Catholic conscience objection because he is employed as a pharmacist, but when that same pharmacist wants to volunteer time to help a refugee, he all of a sudden is too Catholic to ask for government money.
It’s in the First Amendment, ya know.
Ping
No vouchers or medical care either? How about nursing homes, AIDs respite/shelters, all senior and orphanage centers/housing, unIversity grants, adoption/foster care centers? No more religious holidays and God off money? No burial next?
So this means the ACLU can’t impose secularism re: gay marriage, fed BC, abortion, sterilization, conscience/Catholic med personnel?
Quid pro quo.
Yet this govt gives to Islamic sharia countries and the Muslim brotherhood?
Enjoy that hand basket America.
Defund the CCHD ASAP.
I miss Cardinal O’Connor.
Maranatha!
Why don’t we cut the bull and disband WH faith based initiatives; They’re only for infiltrating, selling out the souls of Christians and churches via dissenters/those who think they’re God and big shots and votes.
Way past time to sweep our houses clean.
“I don’t think the grants represent a government endorsement of Catholicism.”
Doesn’t matter if it is. The Constitution forbids “establishment,” not “endorsement.” All that means is that congress is not allowed to establish a state religion, in the same way that the Anglican Church is the official religion of England.
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