Fighting the HHS Mandate
Very
recently the Supreme Court upheld President Obama’s health care law, and the
President reaffirmed his determination to force Catholic institutions to
provide contraception, abortifacients and sterilization to its employees, in
direct violation of its moral beliefs, not to mention its Constitutionally
guaranteed right to religious freedom.
This
has led to speculation about what will ultimately happen. Will the Church have to shut down all her
schools, hospitals and charitable endeavors?
Certainly that would create a vacuum that big-government politicians
would love to fill. But it would also
permanently cripple the economy over night.
And I will not make the rash judgment that that is what the President
seeks. I think it’s far more likely he’s
simply playing “chicken” with the bishops.
Perhaps he plans to back down and is calculating the most opportune
political moment to do so. But one thing
is sure: the bishops will not blink. The
video below is a discussion of the issue with Cardinal Francis George, of
Chicago.
