Wednesday, January 2, 2013

http://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/01/beware-obamacares-looming-conscience-cliff/

Over the years, sexual immorality has become widespread in our culture, but up until recently, one could chose whether or not to participate. If you were a Christian, believed in God and believed that contraception, abortion and sexual promiscuity were wrong, you could chose to not participate, fund or enable them in any way. This applied whether you were a priest, an ordinary citizen or a business owner.

Now, the Obama administration appears hell-bent on forcing all of us to participate in our culture's sins. If you own a business, for instance, and believe that abortion-inducing drugs are wrong, Obamacare forces you to purchase health insurance for your employees covering these drugs. For the time being, it appears that if you are a solely religious institution (Churches, monasteries, ect.) you will be exempt. All others will be compelled to fund and enable an act that they consider to be murder.

There are plenty of pending lawsuits seeking to block implementation of this insidious policy, and encouraging signs coming out of the courts that religious liberty may prevail. We'll have to wait and see what the future holds. Even if the Obama administration is forced to back down, and Christians and Catholics are permitted to go back to following their consciences, they may still remember the shiver they got down their spines as they remember that their government tried to persecute them. They will still wonder what is coming next.

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