Why the Lawsuit on Obama's HHS Mandate?

Why the Lawsuit on Obama’s HHS Mandate?

In pursuit of the truth - cinops be gone - Thursday, June 7, 2012

Dedicated to the Second National “Stand Up for Freedom” Rally, Friday, June 8th at Noon

Sources of information: Our Sunday Visitor, June 3rd, 2012 and the “Catalyst” May 2012, and the Founding Fathers

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, “We have tried negotiation with the Administration and legislation with the Congress - and will keep at it - and there’s still no fix. Time is running out, and our precious ministries and fundamental rights hang in the balance, so we have to resort to the courts now.”

Father John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame, “If we concede that the government can decide which religious organizations are sufficiently religious to be awarded the freedom to follow principles that define their mission, then we have begun to walk down a path that ultimately leads to the undermining of those institutions.”

“This lawsuit is about an unprecedented attack by the federal government on one of most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one’s religion without government interference … The HHS mandate that all employers [including Catholic Charities] provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraceptives includes only a narrow exemption for certain organizations that the government deems sufficiently “religious.”

The first three following ACLU* criteria will decide what qualifies as a religious institution: 1.) “Has the inculcation of religious values as its purpose.” 2.) Primarily employees persons who share its religious tenets.” 3.) Primarily serves persons who share its religious tenets.” [4.) and the organization falls within a certain tax code provision defining a narrow subset of religious nonprofits. *[In 2000, Ca. Contraceptive Equity Law.]

“This exemption runs contrary to decades of federal laws that have consistently honored and respected the conscience rights of religious institutions and individuals. This radical and narrow definition of what constitutes a “religious employer” attacks religious freedom by defining it away only to houses of worship… reduces religious freedom to freedom of worship. We serve everyone: The exemption excludes most Catholic hospitals, schools, universities and social services providers, even though they are “religious” organizations by any reasonable definition.”

“Invasive government inquiry: The exemption also involves an invasive federal government inquiry into an organization’s religious beliefs and practices, by conferring powers on government forbidden by the Constitution.” [The 1st Amendment.]

“Separation of Church and State: The Founding Fathers had in mind keeping the State out of the internal affairs of the church - exactly what we face today with the HHS mandate. The First Amendment which forbids the government from establishing a state religion [Which the mandate tries to do:] and prohibiting the free exercise of religion and in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which forbids government from imposing a substantial burden on religious exercise…

George H. Kubeck, *Call for a condemnation of the ACLU. Bill Donohue [Catalyst] said, “The ACLU has long been an enemy of religious liberty… in 1978 I interviewed Roger Baldwin. It listed all the provisions of the 1st Amendment among its ten goals. Not among them was religious liberty…”