[Charles Henrickson]

Also this, from the LCMS Office of the President:

Greetings in the precious name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

Synod President Matthew C. Harrison will be one of several religious leaders to testify during the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's hearing, "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?"

The hearing will be held Thursday, Feb. 16, between 9:30-11:30 a.m. EST at the Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. It can be streamed lived at the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform's website here.

Harrison has issued two letters to the church about the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' recent mandate that health plans must cover all forms of birth control, which the LCMS opposes because it includes birth control products that can cause the death of a baby developing in the womb. The statements, a video message, press release and media coverage about this issue can be found at http://www.lcms.org/hhsmandate.

A bulletin insert also is available for congregational use.

We encourage you and your family, friends, churches and schools to watch President Harrison's testimony and to learn more about this mandate, which we view as a government intrusion into what is the realm of traditional and biblical Christian conscience. In the words of President Harrison, "We will stand, to the best of our ability, with all religious and other concerned citizens, against this erosion of our civil liberty. Come what may, we shall do everything we can, by God's grace, to ‘obey God rather than men' (Acts 5:29)."

Please pray for our country's leaders that they will make wise decisions on this issue, wise decisions that give glory and honor to our heavenly Father who has deemed all life precious.

[Charles Henrickson]

LCMS President Matthew Harrison

[Charles Henrickson]

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[ReformationFan]

As a fellow Protestant Christian of the PCA variety, God bless our LCMS brethren and their leaders. I’m very happy to read that their President is doing this.

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[Secret Agent Man]

You want to know what this is really all about?

It is this:

The liberals have made it so that individual citizens have NO CHOICE but to pay for abortion and birth control for everyone else.

They can’t stand there’s a law that prevents Congress from directly funding abortion. They said “screw you” and are forcing it through mandated insurance coverage so you can’t not be sucked into paying for it. If you don’t get insurance you pay a fine which winds up paying for it.

They have no respect for laws they don’t like. They have no respect for individual choice when you don’t choose what they want.

[right way right]

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[Charles Henrickson]

Here is a direct link to the House committee hearing that is streaming online right now:

2-16-12 "Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?"

President Harrison has not yet spoken, I think. According to the schedule, it looks like he is slated to speak as the second witness.

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