Regarding the Obama administration’s announcement Friday that all religious organizations will have until August 1, 2013 to provide free sterilization and birth control to their employees:
U.S. President Barack Obama’s declaration of war on religious freedom is becoming more bold and militant by the day.
The Obama administration’s decision to force faith-based entities like hospitals and universities to provide employees with free sterilization and abortifacient birth control drugs as of August 1, 2013 is literally unconscionable.
To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is as much an attack on access to health care as it is on religious freedom.
When a government or any democratic majority approves a law that forces one to violate their conscience it is the duty of every human being to oppose it. While claiming to be respecting of one’s freedom of choice, such lawmakers are really only leading people away from the true freedom which the natural law provides.
Obama, with his anti-life legislation, is not competent enough to head a family let alone a country. I hope voters will remind him of this in November by making him a one term President.
Paul Kokoski
Ontario, Canada
Comments (8)
Add commentOh give me a break
"To force American citizens to choose between violating their consciences and forgoing their healthcare is as much an attack on access to health care as it is on religious freedom."
No one is forcing Americans to use birth control or forgo healthcare or go against their beliefs. What a strange statement.
I agree that forcing faith based groups to pay for birth control directly could be objectional to some. But this one is spinning clean out of orbit into outter space.
I wonder
if Mr. Kokoski's foil shield may have been compromised.
Did you exile to Canada when grampa and the beauty queen failed in their takeover attempt?
Not likely, Niner
Canada's not where that type would have gone.
If this is a serious issue with christians, the answer is simple: Deploy a single-payer system like Canada's where everyone gets their healthcare services from (including reproductive healthcare). Then no one is forcing these institutions to provide anything they're philosophically opposed to.
Too bad Mr. Kokoski omitted that fact in his screed.
It is so tiresome
to see these dogmatic, one-issue, "Christians" (I use the term loosely) go off subject to support their ranting single issue. This letter is unfactual, follows no logic but that of the author's dogma (pretzle). Not to mention, the guy's from Canada... I wish a lot more of the Dobson Cult would move there.
"The Obama administration’s
"The Obama administration’s decision to force faith-based entities like hospitals and universities to provide employees with free sterilization and abortifacient birth control drugs as of August 1, 2013 is literally unconscionable."
Wait, I thought hospitals and universities were fact-based entities?
Silly me. My grandma must have had Jesus Juice in that IV she was hooked up to.
Also: I wish people would stop misusing the word "literally."
Hello Supreme Court...
Hello Supreme Court...
literally
I share PP's disdain of the incorrect use of the word "literally."
What?
Requiring universities, hospitals and charities to provide preventative birth control to their employees sounds like a wonderful idea. If the employees are persuaded by the religious dogma that having lots of children is good for the church (Rick Santorum),society, and the world then they don't have to use it. Perhaps they could let people think for themselves for a change.