'The Church Of Obama'

Mark Steyn:

The president of the United States has decided to go Henry VIII on the Church’s medieval ass. Whatever religious institutions might profess to believe in the matter of “women’s health,” their pre-eminences, jurisdictions, privileges, authorities, and immunities are now subordinate to a one-and-only supreme head on earth determined to repress, redress, restrain, and amend their heresies. One wouldn’t wish to overextend the analogy: For one thing, the Catholic Church in America has been pathetically accommodating of Beltway bigwigs’ ravenous appetite for marital annulments in a way that Pope Clement VII was disinclined to be vis-à-vis the English king and Catherine of Aragon. But where’d all the pandering get them? In essence President Obama has embarked on the same usurpation of church authority as Henry VIII: As his Friday morning faux-compromise confirms, the continued existence of a “faith-based institution” depends on submission to the doctrinal supremacy of the state.
“We will soon learn,” wrote Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, “just how much faith is left in faith-based institutions.” Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s vicar on earth, has sportingly offered to maintain religious liberty for those institutions engaged in explicit religious instruction to a largely believing clientele. So we’re not talking about mandatory condom dispensers next to the pulpit at St. Pat’s — not yet. But that is not what it means to be a Christian: The mission of a Catholic hospital is to minister to the sick. When a guy shows up in Emergency bleeding all over the floor, the nurse does not first establish whether he is Episcopalian or Muslim; when an indigent is in line at the soup kitchen the volunteer does not pause the ladle until she has determined whether he is a card-carrying papist. The government has redefined religion as equivalent to your Sunday best: You can take it out for an hour to go to church, but you gotta mothball it in the closet the rest of the week. So Catholic institutions cannot comply with Commissar Sebelius and still be in any meaningful sense Catholic.
If you’re an atheist or one of America’s ever more lapsed Catholics, you’re probably shrugging: What’s the big deal? But the new Act of Supremacy doesn’t stop with religious institutions. As Anthony Picarello, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, put it: “If I quit this job and opened a Taco Bell, I’d be covered by this mandate.” And so would any of his burrito boys who object to being forced to make “health care” arrangements at odds with their conscience.

The natural right of conscience is our most sacred of rights.In times of war we do not force those who legitimately oppose war from participating and violating their own conscience,giving them conscientious objector status.At no time does our Constitution require anyone to choose between the state and God.

But now under Obamacare,the state has been elevated above God and reigns supreme,with Barack Obama on the throne deciding what is Holy and unholy.All things belong unto Ceasar now.

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Texas School Intolerent Of Boys View On Homosexuality

From Fox News:

Dakota was in a German class at the high school when the conversation shifted to religion and homosexuality in Germany. At some point during the conversation, he turned to a friend and said that he was a Christian and “being a homosexual is wrong.”

“It wasn’t directed to anyone except my friend who was sitting behind me,” Dakota told Fox. “I guess [the teacher] heard me. He started yelling. He told me he was going to write me an infraction and send me to the office.”

Dakota was sentenced to one day in-school suspension – and two days of full suspension. His mother was flabbergasted, noting that her son had a spotless record, was an honor student, volunteered at his church and played on the school football team.

One of our "natural" and "inalienable rights" is the right of conscience.The whole 1st amendment is rooted and grounded in this fundamental right.We all have a right to be governed by our own conscience and to state openly in public,without fear of reprisal,what those convictions are,as long as we don't infringe on others "inalienable rights."

Dakota,has every right to judge homosexuality as morally wrong.By personally judging something as morally wrong,he or anyone else is not infringing on anyones right to engage in such deviant behavior or supporting such deviant behavior.

Tolerance is a 2 way street,maybe the radical homosexual left should practice it sometimes.

Where 3 Or More Our Gathered In Jesus Name And Be Fined $300

From CBS Los Angeles:

An Orange County couple has been ordered to stop holding a Bible study in their home on the grounds that the meeting violates a city ordinance as a “church” and not as a private gathering.
Homeowners Chuck and Stephanie Fromm, of San Juan Capistrano, were fined $300 earlier this month for holding what city officials called “a regular gathering of more than three people”.

This is absurd! What right has any government -whether its is federal,state,or local- to tell me or anyone else, how many people we allow in our homes at any time and tell us what we can and can not do inside them? ITS NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS!

Furthermore,what about this couple's 1st Amendment rights? I thought we had the "free exercise" to practice our religion anywhere,most especially in our own homes.Oh,I forgot we are no longer governed by the Constitution,but by a bureaucratic state,my apologizes.

This is just more evidence of how little regard our governments have for constitutional liberty.