Today's must-read: Elizabeth Scalia on the Obama administration's contraceptive mandate:
Free is as affordable as it gets; for an accountability-spurning culture, it’s just the right price, indeed. Let us pay nothing in order to beget nothing and, says this government, let us force those interfering “churchy” institutions—who keep insisting that there is something worth contemplating beyond ourselves—to pick up the tab, for good measure.Wow. Read the rest, in which the Anchoress makes the point that Obama's mad intrusion into religious freedom has achieved the impossible: he has united Catholics who have been "divided for decades on issues ranging from felt-banners to dress to dogma." Yes indeed; I am amazed to find myself on the same page as Cardinal Mahoney. May the bishops somehow, by the grace of God, hold the line. Three, so far, say they will defy the mandate. Oremus.
There is an odd “we are nothing” philosophy behind this HHS decision and the Secretary who made it, and the President who supports it—a chilling promise of emptiness where tomorrow should be. Humanity, cajoled away from fertility and trained in sterility, is being weaned from those thoughts that travel beyond the present moment; we are self-interested beyond reason, and thus profoundly bored; condom-strangled, tube-snipped, and detached from the essential materials of reproduction either through artificial means or artificial equivalencies, our vision of the future is as limited as a pay-telescope’s viewer: tick, tick, tick and then a resolute click!, and it is gone.
(For the record, I'm still opposed to those felt banners.)
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ditto palin
ReplyDeleteAnchoress always hits it out of the park. Cardinal Mahoney, bless you!
ReplyDeleteDitto felt banners. blech
Bp Bruskewitz here in Lincoln has also said that we cannot comply with this edict.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dioceseoflincoln.org/Documents/PDFs/BishopLetter_Jan29_2012.pdf
"The present secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, a bitter fallen-away Catholic, now requires that all insurance, even when issued privately, must carry coverage for evil and grave sin....We cannot and will not comply with this unjust decree. Like the martyrs of old, we must be prepared to accept suffering which could include heavy fines and imprisonment. Our American religious liberty is in grave jeopardy."
I suspect that a good percentage of those Obama-supporting Catholics who are now upset with him, will either "chill" on this and learn to love him again by November, or else, be appeased by some trivial gesture on his part to make peace over the issue.
ReplyDeleteI hope I'm wrong.
I hope so too, Chris. Send your Lefty Catholic pals to this story:
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And at this site's discussion of that story, we find in the comments that the Occupiers have started to wear armbands:
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/01/30/occupy-protesters-show-tolerance-and-understanding-just-kidding-they-throw-condoms-at-catholic-school-girls/
Scroll down and read what Zombie has to say.