By Dave Andrusko We try to provide you almost every day with an update in the many-pronged resistance to Obama’s Mandate that forces virtually all employers (religious, religiously-affiliated, or secular) to pay for services they regard as morally objectionable. Today...
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Cardinal Dolan on Obama Mandate: “We will tirelessly defend the timeless and enduring truth of religious freedom”
By Dave Andrusko The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sent out a press release Friday that brought attention to a letter sent by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, to his fellow bishops. (The...
Unsuccessful Senate Vote only First Step in Battle to overturn Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko The Senate killed the Blunt Amendment (strongly supported by NRLC) today for three simple reasons: (1) Democrats control the Senate; (2) all voting Republicans but one voted for the amendment, and (3) all but three Democrats voted against it. But...
Seven States Sue to Block Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko The attorneys general of seven states-- Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas--joined a school, two women, a charitable group, and a major Catholic insurer Thursday in asking a federal judge to block an Obama...
Will Truth Be Framed out of the Picture?
By Dave Andrusko Whether it is an ultrasound bill in Virginia or President Obama’s mandate requiring religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization and contraception, all the buzz now is about...
The Obama Mandate is “not a ‘compromise,’ and it needs to be rescinded”
By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha If you want an in-depth, thoughtful discussion about virtually any issue NRL News Today readers would be interested in, chances are you could not do better than Charles Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia. Last week I wrote...
Opposition from Many Denominations, Academicians at Congressional Hearing on Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko In Part One, we talked about media bias and how the Obama Mandate is framed either as a “debate over contraception” or just opponents making political points in an election year. Here we talk about a third diversion to avoid taking about the truth...
Two Tips of the Hat for Astute Analyses of Bias on Display in Media Coverage of Obama Mandate
By Dave Andrusko As we’ve discussed in story after story over the past week, the Obama administration has experienced some success at spinning its “revised” mandate compelling religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance...
Obama’s “Accounting Trick” Changes “None of the Moral Calculus”
By Dave Andrusko This post will be our last of the week (with many more to come next week) on President Obama’s “revised” mandate requiring religiously-affiliated universities, hospitals, and charities to pay for health insurance that covers sterilization and...
Obama Mandate Threatens Religious Freedom and Freedom of Conscience
By Dave Andrusko There was never—NEVER—any chance that pro-abortionists would skip the chance to turn today’s meeting of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee into a media extravagancy. What are the odds they would stand still for an inquiry into “Lines...