Edmund Burke said all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
This mindset is what enabled ‘Christians’ (and I put that in quotes on purpose) in Germany to watch their Jewish neighbors ‘go up the chimney’.
Most people are unaware of the extent of the issue. Suborning ourselves to it because we have in the past, unawares, is not the answer. Or, even awares. Else, we’d still have slavery.
The idea that we have to remain as ‘evil’ as we currently are and that’s ‘Ok’, is in itself, evil. We shouldn’t acquiesce to current contraceptive policies because we did last year, we should fight them to the betterment of ourselves and our souls.
If the babykilling left can ‘progress’ towards their goal without our interference, what sort of Christians are we if we just give up because it’s easy or we’re afraid of the personal consequences? I’m going to infer from her statement that the ‘discomfort’ and danger to ourselves might be denial of our own healthcare? Or jobs? So, if we lose a court case against this current ruling we should just roll over and play dead? Really? Because the left will stop at that? Really?
This lady is wrapping us in cotton swaddling to just accept abortion and our paying for it as de facto. If I supported evil yesterday, even if I didn’t know it, it’s OK to support it tomorrow when I DO know it today sort of reasoning that I do NOT buy.
She’s supporting Obamacare. Bet she voted for him too.
It’s funny, and suspicious, to me that she’s advocating just giving up if the left wins this ONE battle. If this ONE court case goes against us we should just lie back and think of England...The left NEVER rests if they lose one battle. NEVER. And this lady thinks we should?
Suspicious...
Grima Wormtongue had nothing on this lady...
I argue that paying taxes into a "general treasury fund" is not morally objectionable. Jesus was asked about this very thing, and He (Christ) OK'ed payment of taxes, even to the Roman Empire. That suggests that paying taxes, even to Caesar, is not formal cooperation in evil.
However --- and I hope this is a BIG HOWEVER--- paying taxes or making other mandated payments into a fund that is explicitly set up to provide for intrinsic evils, IS morally prohibited.
My argument in more detail, on another thread.
It's a difference between evil-designated funds (HHS) and non-designated funds (U.S. Treasury).
I am saying, refuse to pay for explicitly designated evils (HHS mandate). There's the bright "do not cross" line. AND fight like hell to prevent such things from being funded by the U.S. Treasury.
P.S. Dr. Smith did not spport Obamacare, did not support Obama, and is in fact a major opponent of contraception, sterilization, and abortion, a defender (oftentimes a LONE defender) of Humanae Vitae going back decades, and in general a hero of Catholic philosophy. Though I disagree with her reasoning here, she is trying to find the line between "you must object," and "you mustrefuse."
Do not rashly characterize her as an Obamunist. She is not.