Obama’s war on religion (update #4)

Obama’s brazen assault on religious liberty remains intransigent. His political calculus has apparently determined that faithful Christian voters are not part of his base. Yet, this issue is so much broader than one demographic. This is yet another extralegal step, disregarding the Constitution of the United States and his oath of office. It certainly is not the first one (e.g. refusing to enforce laws he personally disagress with like the Defense of Marriage Act).

Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

The possible resolutions are:

• Obama reverses course and either drops this mandate or provides at least minimal conscience protections that he has promised again and again.
• This administrative action is overridden by a law, with a veto proof majority. This has already been tried but failed in the Democrat controlled senate.
• The courts rule against it. This seems very probable, but will take a long time.
• Obama is not reelected. It is a certainty that a different administration will correct this.

This issue is too important not to cover, but I also want to keep my normal publishing schedule of Tuesday and Friday open for my regular content. Therefore, beginning today this update (and any future ones on this topic) will be published on Sundays as needed.

My last summary was 2.5 weeks ago. This is the latest update. To see the whole series, click here.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

First Amendment to the United States Constitution

Further Reading

Here is a good sampling of the zillion new articles written on this topic in the last two and a half weeks:

1. “The HHS Mandate is Demeaning to Women.” And Women Are Speaking Out
2. “Well, basically, we’re not looking to the Constitution on that aspect of it”
3. ‘Decrease in Human Beings Will Cover Cost of Contraception Mandate,’ Claims Sebelius
4. ‘Unified, focused’ bishops pledge to continue religious liberty defense
5. ‘We Are Crossing the Rubicon’: House Tackles HHS Mandate Threat
6. A sermon explaining what Pres. Obama is doing.
7. Abominations Will Be Forced On Us By The Government
8. Administration ‘Taking another Mulligan’
9. Americans Strongly Oppose Obama Mandate, New Poll Shows
10. Amish, Ok. Catholics, No.
11. An Embarrassing History Lesson
12. And Upon This Poll I Will Build My Church
13. Becket Fund on Bill O’Reilly: Misconceptions and New Polls
14. Biden: We “Screwed Up” Conscience Issues in the Mandate
15. Bishop tells committee about ‘absurd’ effects of contraceptive mandate
16. Bishops Call Day of Prayer, Fasting, Abstinence for Religious Liberty
17. Bogus Birth Control Controversy
18. Bp. Lori responds for USCCB to America Magazine’s cave in on Pres. Obama’s HHS attack
19. CL: Lefty ‘catholics’ shilling for Pres. Obama
20. Cardinal Dolan Implies That Obama Lied To Him
21. Cardinal Dolan’s Update on the HHS Mandate Fight
22. Cardinal Dolan: religious liberty concerns ‘off the table’ for White House
23. Cardinal George: All Catholic Hospitals Will Close in Two Years Under HHS Mandate
24. Cardinal George: All Catholic hospitals will close in two years under HHS mandate
25. Catholic laity urged to bring faith-based convictions to public square
26. Church plans to redouble effort for law to protect religious conscience
27. Church’s Alliance with Government Comes Crashing Down
28. Contraception Not as Important as Abortion to Obama
29. Contraception hurts minorities, says African American leader
30. Contraception, Against Conscience
31. Controlling Language in the “Contraceptive” Debate
32. Debunking Obama’s Myths About Catholics and Contraception
33. Diverse panel testifies against contraception mandate
34. Does the ObamaCare individual mandate make contracts unenforceable?
35. Don’t Claim to Speak for All Women
36. Driving The Narrative
37. Ethics group says babies are not “actual persons”, and killing them is fine.
38. Executive Overreach: The HHS Mandate Versus Religious Liberty
39. First They Came for the Catholics: Obama’s Contraceptive Mandate
40. Forcing A Kosher Deli To Sell Ham Is Akin To Forcing A Catholic to Pay For Contraception
41. Free Beer Mandate
42. Freedom of Worship?
43. HHS Issues New Rule on ObamaCare Scheme to Fund Abortion Insurance
44. HHS Mandate Creates Absurd Results, Bishop Lori Tells House Judiciary Committee
45. HHS Resources
46. Have Laws Been Replaced by Decrees?
47. Holder: First Amendment Allows Us to Force Catholics to Buy Contraception
48. House Judiciary Hearing Raises Concerns of Government Intrusion Into Family Life
49. HuffPo: We Must Regulate Fertility Industry
50. In defense of the Catholic Church
51. Interesting Glen Beck video
52. Joe Klein Shocker: Requiring Insurers to Cover Birth Control ‘Major Overstepping of the State’s Role’
53. Laughable Hypcorisy from Obama
54. Leaving the Democrats
55. Legion Of Evil (Senate) Kills Blunt Amendment
56. Lutheran leader sides with Catholics on contraceptives issue in fiery testimony
57. Missouri Synod President tells House Committee: LCMS ‘religiously opposed to supporting abortion-causing drugs’
58. National rallies seek religious freedom restoration on March 23
59. New Poll Shows How Strongly Americans Oppose the HHS Mandate
60. Non possumus! We Cannot!
61. Not about Catholics or Contraception
62. Now is Not the Time For Silence or Compromise
63. Obama Abandoning Pro-Life Embryo Adoption Program
64. Obama Admin Cuts Off Birth Control Funding for Low-Income Women in Texas
65. Obama Admin lectures Card. Dolan and USCCB. Dolan responds
66. Obama Admin’s HHS kills Texas women’s health program because State prohibits money to help Planned Parenthood
67. Obama Administration Takes Another Pass on Defending HHS Mandate
68. Obama Mandate Could Fine Religious Groups $2,000 Per Employee
69. Obama Risks $100 Billion If Catholic Hospitals Close
70. Obama VS. Religious Freedom – Don’t Let the Point Get Lost!
71. Obama gives Amish complete exemption. Catholics? Talk to the hand! Why? Why do you think?
72. Obama’s Remaking of America
73. Obamacare Regs 2.5X As Long as the Bible
74. Pa. bishops respond to HHS mandate with day of fasting and prayer
75. President Obama: Render Unto God the Things that Are God’s
76. Pretending Contraception is the Crisis
77. Religious Freedom: It’s not just Pakistan and China
78. Senate Dems stop “conscience exemption” to Obama birth control coverage policy
79. Sleeping Giant-A Parody of All Along the Watchtower Concerning the HHS Debacle
80. Speaking Loudly About Human Liberty
81. Spoon-feeding partisan talking points
82. Stand Up For Religious Freedom on March 23
83. Tell your Senator: Stop HHS Mandate!
84. The Bogus Birth Control Debate
85. The Evolution Of A Right
86. The Forgotten Birth Control Battle
87. The Mandate Controversy and the Bishops’ Response
88. The Senate Betrays the People
89. The Suppositions Behind Obama’s Contraception Coverage
90. The right to conscientious objection
91. U.S. Senate Defeats Amendment to Protect Religious Liberty
92. Umbrellas in a Tornado
93. United for Religious Freedom
94. WH to Dolan: We’re not listening but you should!
95. We don’t need no stinking Bishops!
96. What if Catholic bishops aren’t bluffing?
97. What the heck does that have to do with our freedom of religion?
98. What’s Going On?
99. White House Tells US Bishops’ Staff How To Interpret Catholic Teaching
100. Why the State Must Respect Your Conscience
101. Women’s voices you don’t hear in the mainstream media

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