Separation for You - Not For Us

Here is the liberal idea of their much vaunted "Wall of Separation"....only there when it is a convenient.  But when a church dares to stand on their doctrine and doctrine does not match the liberal progressive doctrine?  Well then wall of separation be dammed.

The Obama administration today said it would move forward with a new mandate requiring most U.S. employers – including religiously affiliated hospitals and schools – to provide health care plans that cover contraceptive services for female employees free of charge.

The guidelines, first proposed in August and set to take effect in August 2012, have been hailed by the abortion-rights community and many Obamare-election supporters.

But the Catholic Church and other religious groups, which consider some forms of contraception as the termination of life, had waged an intensive lobbying campaign for a clear exemption of affiliated institutions from the new rules.

The Department of Health and Human Services today said, despite their concerns, it will hold the line on the requirement, but extended the deadline for compliance until 2013.

The Roman Catholic Church as decided to fight back.

I write to you concerning an alarming and serious matter that negatively impacts the Church in the United States directly, and that strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith. The federal government, which claims to be “of, by, and for the people,” has just been dealt a heavy blow to almost a quarter of those people — the Catholic population — and to the millions more who are served by the Catholic faithful.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that almost all employers,
including Catholic employers, will be forced to offer their employees’ health coverage that includes sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs, and contraception. Almost all health insurers will be forced to include those “services” in the health policies they write. And almost all individuals will be forced to buy that coverage as a part of their policies.

They are not the only ones.....

 The First Amendment forbids "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion.  But a pontificating President Barack Obama will do just that in forcing Catholics to provide contraception and sterilization.

Given that the Obama Administration has already been slapped down 9-0 by the Supreme Court, one can't help but wonder what they were thinking when the DHS decided to do that.  Oh yeah that's right, they were thinking about imposing their ideology on others....kinda like they accuse folks on the right of attempting to do.

Oh well, I suppose that by the time this gets to the Supreme Court, President Obama will be EX-President Obama and we can get back to some real, Constitutionally run government.  One can at least hope.....