tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166176.post676776163442077516..comments2023-07-08T09:49:02.800-04:00Comments on GW Catholic Q & A: "Nothing has changed" with the HHS mandateFr Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17394217028562458631noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9166176.post-80427073689486050632012-02-15T14:48:37.129-05:002012-02-15T14:48:37.129-05:00I truly appreciate and respect everything that the...I truly appreciate and respect everything that the bishops and Cardinal Weurl are doing regarding this extremely important issue and hope they will continue to do so, and that we will hear from them every Sunday. If I may digress....<br /><br />Prior to his election as president, Obama said that one of, if not the first thing he would do would be to pass the Freedom of Choice Act. As we know that campaign promise was not fulfilled. Somewhere along the way, it was surmised that this didn't matter because he would continue to push that agenda in smaller ways. That is what we are facing now. And if we think it is going to stop at free contraceptive coverage without respect for religious institutions, well we are being, and I shall put it bluntly... stupid.<br /><br />If he gets his foot in the door with contraception, then the next thing could quite possibly 'no charge abortions.' Remember, this is the president who called an unplanned baby, a life, a gift from God, a PUNISHMENT.<br /><br />In addition, I invite all readers of this blog to read an article by Liz Mundy, published in the Washington Post magazine, October 2008 titled, "When Michelle met Barack." In it, there is discussion of the courting days of the president and Michelle. He calls marriage, "a worthless institution." If this is not telling, I don't know what is. Will same sex marriage be the law of the land? Measures are passing daily, from state to state, which will slowly tear away and abolish this most holy sacrament. Could the president's next mandate be that religious institutions perform same sex marriage under the guise of freedom, choice, rights, liberty?<br /><br />Today, we ask ourselves how the atrocities of the Holocaust occurred. How one man did what he did across Europe. It is essential that each of us inform ourselves and truly educate ourselves on the matter(s) at hand. Don't take your favorite talking head words as gospel. Because we know, it isn't.Frannoreply@blogger.com