By Dave Andrusko When it comes to public policy issues, sometimes still waters run deep. Or, put another way, an issue can burn red-hot--in the sense of getting enormous attention--and then seem to retreat. But, in fact, if people are seriously upset, public...
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Wheaton College latest to file lawsuit against Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko My apologies, I had intended to write about this yesterday but got swamped. For Evangelical Christians there are few colleges or universities more readily recognized than Wheaton College in Illinois. On Wednesday—the same day a federal judge gutted...
Judge Tosses Challenge by Seven States to Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom has dismissed a federal lawsuit brought by seven states against the Obama Administration’s mandate that requires religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers...
Opposition to Obama’s Mandate: an Encouraging Update
By Dave Andrusko A reminder, more to me than to NRL News Today readers: just because you don’t read or hear a lot about controversy “A,” that does not mean it’s quieted down. It likely means it’s simmering. So, aside from some gratuitously vicious (even by the...
Cardinal Wuerl on why the Archdiocese of Washington, DC went to court to challenge the Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha We’ve done our best to keep NRL News Today readers current with respect to the clash between the Obama Administration’s mandate that tramples over religious freedoms and the resistance to it by the community of faith,...
What’s airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today? “The Obama Mandate: It’s About Religious Freedom, Not Contraception”
By Dave Andrusko National Right to Life President and Pro-Life Perspective Host Carol Tobias provides an invaluable service today at www.prolifeperspective.com. She clears away the rhetorical sagebrush which the Obama Administration has used to cover the truth about...
Obama Mandate Key Topic on Sunday Talk Shows
By Dave Andrusko The Obama mandate, never far out of anyone’s mind, cropped up on Sunday’s network talk shows with renewed urgency. Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation” on the topic of religion and politics, Cardinal Timothy Dolan turned one question from host Bob...
Bishops’ Statement Affirms Opposition to threat to religious freedoms
By Dave Andrusko Living in a free country, it is difficult to persuade people that fear and intimidation are tools of the trade for pro-abortionists and their friends in the Obama Administration. As we talk about elsewhere today pro-abortionists in Virginia turned a...
New York Times/CBS News Poll: Most say there should be exemption from Obama mandate for employers who object on religious or moral grounds
By Dave Andrusko A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows majority support for an exception for employers who have religious or moral objections to the Obama mandate requiring virtually all employers to pay for services they regard as morally objectionable. Fifty-one...
Ombudsman Agrees NPR Muffed Polling Story on Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko Giving credit where credit is due: on Tuesday the ombudsman for NPR found that a story erred in describing the position of Catholics on the controversial Obama Administration mandate that forces virtually all employers to pay for services they regard...