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The Obama Mandate: The Gravest Threat to Religious Freedom in 226 Years

Matt in N.C. Wrote: Oct 07, 2012 6:03 PM
And few with a conscience wish to be involved in setting up another housing-market collapse. There WILL be another. The dust hadn't settled from the last one when politicians began pressuring banks to resume lending to Democrat voters unlikely to pay off their mortgages. It would be simpler, more straightforward, and probably less destructive if the federal government just seized houses and gave them away instead of forcing banks to serve as an arm of the welfare bureaucracy. The former act would screw all taxpayers at once and perhaps motivate them to drive the politicians from power. The latter screws all the taxpayers, but only after first screwing depositors,, ruining investors, and creating hysteria.

Editor's Note: This column was coauthored by Bob Morrison.

A liberal reporter speaking at a conference in Georgetown recently dismissed conservative alarms about the Obama administration's mandate that forces religious institutions--like Catholic Hospitals and Evangelical colleges--to provide coverage for drugs and procedures that can abortions and that effect sterilizations. "What about the anti-Catholic Bible riots in Philadelphia in the 1840s," she asked. Those led to scores of people actually being killed. Those Bible riots were deplorable, a blot on American history. But they were not the acts of the federal government. They were lawless violence, not a deliberate policy of oppression.

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