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Cardinal Slams Obama Admin on Mandate: "We Didn't Ask for Fight"

During a weekend interview, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, took the Obama administration to task again for its controversial mandate requiring religious employers to pay for birth control and drugs that can cause abortions.

Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Dolan said "We didn't ask for the fight, but we"re not going to back away from it."

"You"ve got a dramatic, radical intrusion of a government bureaucracy into the internal life of the church," Dolan said. "Our problem is the government is intruding into the life of faith in the church that they shouldn't be doing."

"I think the public square is impoverished when people might be coerced to put a piece of duct tape over their mouth keeping them from bringing their deepest held convictions to the conversation," he said.

Cardinal Dolan said most Catholic institutions self-insure, so they will still have to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs. Ref. Source 2

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Obama Admin's Catholic Treatment: Coercion in the Name of Freedom

The "Freedom From Religion Foundation" has placed a full-page ad in the Washington Post. It urges Catholics to "quit the Catholic Church" over its teachings on sex and procreation, asking: "Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages?"

Noting Catholic opposition to the Obama Administration's mandate for covering contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs in most private health plans, the ad declares: "The Church that hasn't persuaded you to shun contraception now wants to use the force of secular law to deny birth control to non-Catholics."

This is so topsy-turvy a description of what is going on that I guess the Post's advertising fact-checkers are out sick. But in case anyone is swayed by such charges, the facts may bear repeating. Ref. Source 5

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Dozens of Catholic Groups Sue Obama Admin Over HHS Mandate

Notre Dame, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and dozens of Catholic hospitals and organizations have filed a total of 12 lawsuits today against Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration over the controversial HHS mandate.

The lawsuit challenges the Obama administration's unprecedented mandate that attacks the freedom to practice religion without government interference. Under the HHS mandate, employers must provide insurance coverage that includes abortion-inducing drugs, as well as contraceptives and sterilization procedures. Ref. Source 2

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Catholic dioceses organizations taking Obama Administration to court
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WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2012--A total of 43 dioceses, hospitals, schools and Church agencies have filed 12 lawsuits in various courts of the United States as part of the ongoing dispute with the federal government over the move by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to oblige Catholic organizations to pay for contraception and abortifacients.
Source: CBCP News - World News

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Battle Against Obama's HHS Mandate Not Just for Catholics

In a country as great as the United States of America, where even in hard times we are surrounded by plenty, it's easy to get comfortable. And in that lax condition, certain freedoms are taken for granted until they are overtly threatened.

For example, religious freedom has long been assumed safe by myriads of Americans who may or may not even attend a church or synagogue regularly. The steeples on the country hillsides, as well as those pointing upward here and there amid the city skylines, are a stark reminder of the religious heritage of this nation, and many assume what once was always will be. Ref. Source 7

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Fortnight for Freedom Campaign Against HHS Mandate Starts Thursday

The Fortnight for Freedom campaign the nation's Catholic bishops started against the Obama HHS mandate, which forces religious groups to pay for abortions and birth control drugs for their employees, begins Thursday.

The United States Catholic bishops are readying American Catholics for what may be the largest campaign of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. In addition to 12 lawsuits against the Obama Administration including 46 plaintiffs from dioceses, hospitals and universities, the US Catholic bishops are urging Catholics to openly defy the Obama HHS Mandate. Ref. Source 2

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Catholic Bishops: No Position on Obamacare Ruling, Want Abortion Funding Cut

The nation's Cathoic bishops took no position on today's ruling upholding Obamacare but said Congress still needs to fix problems inherent in the legislation, such as abortion funding, rationing and conscience issues.

The bishops" middle group position has upset some pro-life Catholics whop are strongly opposed to the law and they say the reluctance by the bishops to oppose the law as a whole - while supporting legislation to limit the pro-abortion and pro-rationing effects of it - was a strategic mistake that made it easier to for the bill to be approved in Congress.

The full statement from the bishops follows. Ref. Source 1

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Romney Takes on Obama Mandate: "We"re All Catholic Today"

In a well-received speech in Ohio today, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took on the Obama mandate that has come under heavy opposition from pro-life and religious groups. The mandate has been panned because it forces employers to pay for and refer women for abortion-inducing drugs, birth control and contraception. Romney's comments come at about 6:51 in the following video. Ref. Source 5