Breaking: Multiple lawsuits filed against contraceptive mandate; megachurch pastor vows jail
Breaking news…
EWTN has just announced it filed a lawsuit today to block the contraception mandate. From the National Catholic Register:
“EWTN’s lawsuit is important because the network is not a church. They are a lay-run organization, and they have a right to live by and practice their faith and project the messages they want to project. For the government to say that only churches have religious liberty – but individuals do not – is contrary to what the First Amendment is all about,” said [Mark] Rienzi [law professor at Catholic University of America].
At nearly the same time, Priests for Life announced it, too, is filing a lawsuit:
Priests for Life is particularly well placed to pursue this litigation because its primary purposes are to promote and protect life whereas the primary purposes of the contraceptive mandate are to prevent and destroy life.
Also about the same time the Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced:
Michigan will be the lead state in an effort to defend religious liberty in three separate lawsuits filed by The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty on behalf of two colleges and a religious broadcasting network [EWTN] challenging onerous administrative health care regulations recently handed down by the Obama administration.
Meanwhile, LifeNews.com reported on these tweets by Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church:
Don’t forget, Pastor Warren gave the invocation at President Obama’s inauguration. His denouncement of the contraceptive mandate is huge.
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Rick Warren in jail? I think I can live with that.
I’d go, too, Joan. Wouldn’t that make your day? :)
Like clockwork, Joan. Religious freedom, AS LONG as it’s not conservative liberal freedom. And we can keep screwing like bunnies. BECAUSE THE SEX WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE MUST CONTINUE. AND YOU MUST PAY FOR IT.
Thanks, Roo. I did not know there was an online petition.
Keep your ovaries off my rosary.
Here’s Father Pavone talking about the lawsuit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTHBKlBA1LE&feature=youtu.be
My favorite: “You don’t adapt to injustice. You oppose it.”
Roman Catholics should be worried with their bishops, priests and others who paints are down at all times… Clean your institution first and then attack Obama, perhaps, President Obama would be a great Religious Leader for you Roman Catholics… Shame on you for attacking President Obama by using this issue. Roman Catholics practice more abortion in the entire World….
“Don’t forget, Pastor Warren gave the invocation at President Obama’s inauguration. His denouncement of the contraceptive mandate is huge.”
– I’m sorry Jill, but I simply cannot pass this by.
You actually mean that this fool was deceived in spite of the overwhelming evidence that Obama was lying about his intentions….
The only thing more huge than this denouncement is the assumption that anyone listens to him after this debacle….
BTW… This is from someone who read, loved, and taught “40 Days”. Rick has certainly lost his way.
OMG THE SEXXXX!!!! PEOPLE ARE HAVING SEX OMG OMG WHAT DO I DO THE SEEEXXXXX!!!
Get a grip Courtnay. Really. Get a grip.
As far as Rick Warren and others “going to jail” for their so-called beliefs, I am sure some religionists would relish the opportunity to become a “martyr” in that way. It’s good for JesusPoints!! Store up treasures for yourself in heaven by disobeying the government your god gave you and told you to obey, isn’t that how it works?
BTW the fact that Rick Warren gave the invocation and is now talking about civil disobedience is just a display of hypocrisy. It’s not like he can pretend he gave the invocation for any reason other than publicity since any moron would know Obama’s basic beliefs by the time he was elected to office.
I’m afraid there are some points being made here. Was Warren blissfully ignorant of Obama and what he stood for? Come on folks, don’t cozy up to a rattlesnake then cry victim when it bites you.
BOh, apostate! Silly!! I have gotten many grips in my life, and besides I have 3 kids, am happily married, so sex is not new to me. But why do I have to subsidize yours?? (that is, if you’re having any yourself…oh, my bad!!! Too personal!!) ROTFLMAO.
Actually Cournay, if apostate has no children she subsidizes your life and your children much more than you subsidize hers and even moreso if she happens to be in the same insurance network you are in considering that you and your family use far more resources. Now I know you teapartiers object to your tax money being spent on things you don’t believe in, which basically includes pretty much everything but making sure that our young men and women (who are fully human by the way) are given each and every possible opportunity to be blown up overseas, but everyone, and I do mean EVERYONE, who pays taxes objects to how that money is spent on some level.
So I guess what I am trying to say is that you are not special. If I have to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for Catholic hospitals and for the many children of religious families to be educated, you can pay for *POOR* women’s pills.
Time for a single payer government system.
Who should it be Ex-GOP? Buffet or Gates?
“If I have to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and for Catholic hospitals and for the many children of religious families to be educated, you can pay for *POOR* women’s pills.”
We are not talking about the spending of government revenues, but what the government can force private individuals and organizations to pay for.
RE;Catholic Man
HA, ha.. boy, are you funny.
Re; apostate
Don’t exactly think you should re-produce, but still not paying for your condoms.
Really good article on the subject for those wanting to understand more of the history around this, and some alternatives.
http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2012/02/pfor1-1202.html
There are going to be hundreds of thousands of Catholics in prison after Obama decides that Catholic hospitals need to perform surgical abortions as part of “women’s health”. That’s coming next.
Pro-abort anti-religious bigots show their ugliness.
The world has the scientific ability to identify the father of every child concieved, but we do no have the moral will to identify fathers and hold them accountable. The outright slaughter of children in the womb is unacceptable and taxes should not be mandated for this purpose.
:::sigh:::
People don’t do invocations at inaugurations because they agree with the incoming president on everything, and Warren’s always been in disagreement with Obama on matters of concern to folks in this forum. I suspect the motive is simply to sanctify the event and sincerely pray that wisdom will find its way into the president’s head.
This is contingent, of course, on a person’s willingness to be wise.
Whether a person approves of a pastor participating in political events depends in part on where everyone fits in Niebuhr’s taxonomy of Christ and culture. Here’s a fair summary: http://goo.gl/T5qSU