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To: SaxxonWoods; NKP_Vet; D-fendr
There are big conflicts going on right now, both within and among religiously-affiliated institutions, both Catholic and non-Catholic, with different factions pushing for different levels or resistance to, or cooperation with, the anti-life government mandates.

As far as I know (and I would be grateful for correction or for additional information) the number of Catholic institutions actually participating in federal lawsuits against the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate is:

49


The following figures are approximate, but they're as good as I could get, combing through several sources:

257

- number of Non-Catholic, religiously-affiliated health care institutions in the USA

538

- number of Non-Catholic, religiously-affiliated colleges and universities in the USA


Number of these Non-Catholic religious institutions which have filed federal lawsuits against the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate is:

3


It seems to me that the Catholic leadership (100% of the bishops) who have voiced/written protests, and the Catholic institutions (49 institutions) which have filed lawsuits, are taking a lion's share of the heat and doing a lion's share of the work here.

Not that it's "enough," but it's MOST OF the resistance.

I would love to see other Christian (and Jewish) institutions step up and do something. Honorable mention goes to Richard Land of the Baptists, and Bishop Matthew Harrison of the Lutheran Church/Missouri Synod, who have made very strong statements against the mandates.

But who else? Who stands with us?

Do you sense my anxiety here?

8 posted on 07/24/2012 5:14:10 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("In Christ we form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:5)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Let’s not forget that the Catholic Church was practically the only faith in the country that came out against Roe v. Wade when it was passed in 1973. Most protestant demoninations
saw nothing wrong with it. The Episcopal Church still sees nothing wrong with murdering the unborn.


9 posted on 07/24/2012 8:03:15 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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