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Will Obama Allow Americans to Practice Catholicism? No!

CHARLIE FEATHER Wrote: Nov 22, 2012 12:39 PM

I can see a law that forbids people to kill babies. Proscribing behavior is a proper use of law. I can’t see, however, the justice of a law that compels people to kill babies. Compelling behavior, especially ones that are generally considered immoral, seems to be an improper use of law.

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Will Obama Allow Americans to Practice Catholicism? No!

"Catholicism teaches that it is a sin to use, provide, or otherwise support contraception."

These words are not from the Catholic Catechism or a sermon by a Catholic bishop. They are excerpted from the preliminary injunction U.S. District Judge Robert H. Cleland issued last month temporarily stopping the Obama administration from forcing a family-owned outdoor-power-equipment company to comply with an Obamacare regulation that requires virtually all health care plans to provide women (but not men) with co-pay-free coverage for sterilizations, contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs.

The judge stated the Catholic teaching on contraception as an undisputed fact of the...

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