Catholic Advocate President Discusses Religious Liberty Lawsuits on MSNBC
Catholic Advocate President Matt Smith appeared on MSNBC this morning to discuss the 12 lawsuits filed yesterday defending our religious liberties.
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It is well known the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) forces health care plans to provide coverage of abortion and use our tax dollars to pay for abortion. In addition, PPACA does not protect the conscience rights of …
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Hang tough, Matt. Few see this for what it is: the great battle for the hearts and minds of “we the people.” The god of this world is enjoying his moment in the sun; but not for long. The trees are in bloom.
I THOUGHT CATHOLIC ADVOCATE DID A GREAT JOB, AND I PRY THAT THE CHURCH CONTINUES TO STAND STRONG AND CONTINUE TO TALK ABOUT THIS ISSUE ALL THE WAY TILL ELECTION SO PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO TAKE NOTICE OF WHAT THIS ADMINISTRATION IS TAKING AWAY FROM US AND EVERYONE WITH RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.
I am very proud of the Catholic Advocate for making our values known and addressing the loss of Religious Liberty point on the most liberal of all networks. We need to stand together and to educate the public. Too many folks get their news from the main stream media which has a ver liberal agenda. Congratulations for speaking out.
This mandate is only the first of many which will erode Judea/ Christian values. First comes mandated contraception, after pill, then abortion and then euthanasia. Catholic and Faith Based institutions will not be able to remain as service providers. Obamas “death panels” are very favorable to euthanasia if a person is unable to contribute to society. This panel and the bioethics division of the Nationa Institutes of Health have conclueded, and have published their conclusions in the NIH Bioethics Journal that it is not immoral to kill a person who is non-productive and does not share in the fullness of life. Does it make sense that Obama wants to hand down mandates which will force Chrisitan and Faith based institutions into immoral practices. He must be stopped!!! Thank you Catholic Advocate for your pro=active status. Kay
Good points though I hate the use of the word “liberal”, which implies generosity, to describe extremists. Since I became pro-life close to 30 years ago, I have noted the media bias – I wondered why they never showed any interest in our side. Now it is so bad that the general populace is disinterested and sometimes hostile to us. They believe Planned Parenthood is a benign organization.
More of the erosion of the Judeo/Christian ethic has occurred quietly. Dr. Bernard Nathanson, now deceased, who was a founder of NARAL and performed 60,000 abortions before his conversion, said “we wouldn’t have got so far if the Churches had not been silent’. Schools and universities, entertainment and news media sources have been indoctrinating us and our kids. This is how the Germans were brainwashed before The Holocaust. Read the 1969 Jaffe Memo, sent out by the coordinator for Planned Parenthood’s world outreach in 1969. It lays out a plan for the restructuring of societies worldwide. It seems almost complete.
Even if the definition of a religious institution was broadened to include all those ministries with which the Catholic Church is involved, so that the Church was not required to provide abortifacient contraceptives and sterilizations, the battle is NOT resolved until EVERY American is provided the SAME freedom of conscience and is not compelled to offer those services through the insurance companies offered with their companies as well.
After all, those non-religious oriented businesses, who are run by good people who have a conscience,have to comply with the mandate THIS AUGUST! They don’t have a year to wait. The fines will come immediately. Who’s crying about that?
President Obama has chosen to confront and challenge The Roman Catholic Church with his demands of compulsory coverage of womens’ health care including birth control and abortificants for employees of Catholic institutions. This directly contravenes the separation of Church and state and is absolutely unconstitutional. Fourty three law suits have now been lodged against Obama and his demands and he is destined to lose in the courts. His support for abortion and partial birth abortion as a state senator puts him at odds with not only the majority of Americans but medical science. He is the first American president to take such an immoral and heinous position.
Thank you for putting this up as I didn’t get to see it on television. I can only hope and pray that we get more chances to discuss what our basic issues are rather than focusing merely on the birth control issue. I already see parents who are opting for abortion for so called “defective” babies such as Down’s syndrome and other anomalies after intense counseling by their health care providers. Thank God some of them slip by the imperfect testing that is currently available, and some of the babies who would have been aborted have been born perfectly fine. The elderly in nursing homes who have been warehoused and are taking up “bed space” will be next I fear.
We are being called to be prayer warriors for those who will be speaking out on the public airways.
In the past I have been able to sign forms insuring that I can opt not to participate in a medical procedure that goes against my conscience. I may be retiring before I want to if that option is taken away.
Excellent! Matt did an awesome job of defending the Catholic position. I was particularly impressed in how he spoke to the bigger, more tangible issues (such as the complete lack of protection for Catholic institutions that self-insure), rather than allow himself to get bogged down in the subtleties (that insurance companies don’t give away anything for free, so the “accomodation” is just a shell game). It’s really important to zero in on the easy-to-grasp (and hard to deny) arguments when you have so little time, and you know the audience doesn’t usually listen closely. He did a great job! We need a lot more interviews like that to inform the public, because the press isn’t doing their job. God bless you, Matt!
Obama must be about the worst president the USA ever had.It feels,he has no respect for the American people; only for those persons who always agree with him. He seems to consider all others as slaves. That is not “America”. I hoop all Americans will see the danger of losing their freedom. Please, get rid of him if you want freedom.
These president and his people will push until we the people push back. Never been more proud to be Catholic. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Catholic Advocate! You are doing a great job keeping this issue front and center. Obama is determined to push his socialist agenda through at any cost – even if it means changing the Constitution and infringing on our religious freedom.
On that note, I urge all Catholics to go see the movie “For Greater Glory” it is a very powerful and inspiring film. It is a true story based on the lives of priests and citizens who fought and ultimately died for their religious freedom in Mexico in the 1920s. These Martyrs did not comply with their government and we will not comply with ours. Obama must be stopped!
God bless you, Matt. Keep fighting the good fight!
I am not Catholic but have great respect for the church and its moral teachings, values, and steadfast traditions. I am Lutheran and not happy with the fact that some of the synods have waffled on certain social issues because they choose to be popular with the younger generation to retain membership. They know these decisions are not in accordance with the teachings of the scriptures. As Christians we are called to be a shining light to the darkness of this world, not appeasing and acceptant of it. It saddens and frightens me that more Americans are not willing to stand up, speak out and fight back for their beliefs and liberty. If we aren’t willing to fight back for our freedoms then we deserve to loose them, and we shall. Where are the Paul Reveres, Patrick Henrys, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, and other founding father types of our day and age? Have we truly become a nation of apathetic cowards? Has greed, hunger for power, and corruption totally taken over? My father, whom I am very proud of, fought in WWII, the Korean War, and Viet Nam. He is highly decorated and nearly died many times throughout his military service. It boggles my mind to think that the American freedoms and way of life he and so many others have fought and died to preserve is being undermined from within. I pray to God everyday that the people of the United States of America will wake up to what is happening in and to our country before it’s too late, if we haven’t already arrived there. Obama and all of his radical thinking cohorts must not prevail and I will do whatever I can to ensure this happens. PRAY WITHOUT CEASING!!, because ultimately,it is in God’s hands.
I am inclined to agree with Mary Lark Corbett. What of private companies and other institutions not “sponsored” in some way by the Church. More than a few come to mind. The back cover of my church bulletin is filled with them. Multiply those by the number of parishes in the US and we’re talking thousands. Catholic Chief Justice Roberts may have had those in mind when he decided that the healthcare mandate is indeed a tax. This is a whole new ballgame now.