Christian Science Monitor: Conservatives see ‘media-generated histrionic’ over vulgar comments Rush Limbaugh made about law school student Sandra Fluke. Liberals see a ripe opportunity to pin wings of GOP candidates to the wall.
- Posted: 03/06/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.csmonitor.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Feminism, Topic: Insurance, Topic: Media, Topic: Obamacare, Topic: Politics
LifeNews: Lisa Murkowski, the pro-abortion Republican senator from Alaska, says she now regrets casting her vote last week for the Blunt Amendment.
- Posted: 03/06/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.lifenews.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, State: Alaska, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Congress, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
USCCB letter by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, dated March 2, 2012: Brothers, we know so very well that religious freedom is our heritage, our legacy and our firm belief, both as loyal Catholics and Americans. There have been many threats to religious freedom over the decades and years, but these often came from without. This one sadly comes from within. As our ancestors did with previous threats, we will tirelessly defend the timeless and enduring truth of religious freedom. I look forward to our upcoming Administrative Board Meeting and our June Plenary Assembly when we will have the chance to discuss together these important issues and our way forward in addressing them. And I renew my thanks to you for your tremendous, fraternal support and your welcome observations in this critical effort to protect our religious freedom.
- Posted: 03/06/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.usccb.org
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
National Catholic Register: In response to the failed vote, Alliance Defense Fund’s legal counsel, Matt Bowman, said, “The government cannot tell Americans that certain parts of their faith are not important enough to practice. People of faith are explicitly protected by the Constitution and federal law from such radical state invasions of conscience. The Blunt/Fortenberry Amendment was a necessary measure to begin to restore the religious liberties of Americans that Obamacare has trampled on with its assumption of unlimited bureaucratic power. Every vote for religious freedom should be unanimous, but, tragically, our fundamental freedoms didn’t seem to matter to enough senators.”
- Posted: 03/06/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.ncregister.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Laura MacCleery of the Center for Reproductive Rights at the Hill: Moreover, the lawsuits brought by the Becket Fund and the Alliance Defense Fund are premature, and will very likely be dismissed until a new rule is completed.
- Posted: 03/06/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: thehill.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Becket Fund, Group: Center for Reproductive Rights, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
ADF Attorney Steve Aden at The American Thinker: Among the myriad problems this creates, not the least of which include the government’s encroachment on rights of conscience and religious freedom, is that it sets Planned Parenthood up to use their billion-dollar net worth to try to get President Obama re-elected in 2012.
- Posted: 03/05/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.americanthinker.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: Planned Parenthood, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, Topic: Politics
ADF President and General Counsel Alan E. Sears at the TellADF.org Blog: The Obama administration’s most recent mandate is also its most radical. It directs insurers for most employers – including religious ministries and organizations – to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization, and contraception at “no cost” to employees, regardless of the employers’ religious or moral objections. (also at the Christian Post Advancing Religious Liberty Blog)
- Posted: 03/05/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: blog.telladf.org
- Tags: ADF: Alan E. Sears, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
The Hill: Limbaugh came under fire from Democrats on Wednesday after he attacked Fluke for her testimony in a hearing about the president’s contraception mandate, calling her a “slut” and a “prostitute.”
- Posted: 03/02/2012
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Feminism, Topic: Insurance, Topic: Media, Topic: Obamacare
National Catholic Register: Reaction also came from Matt Bowman, legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which is fighting the contraception mandate in court. “The government cannot tell Americans that certain parts of their faith are not important enough to practice,” Bowman said in a statement. “People of faith are explicitly protected by the Constitution and federal law from such radical state invasions of conscience. The Blunt/Fortenberry Amendment was a necessary measure to begin to restore the religious liberties of Americans that Obamacare has trampled on with its assumption of unlimited bureaucratic power. Every vote for religious freedom should be unanimous, but, tragically, our fundamental freedoms didn’t seem to matter to enough senators.”
- Posted: 03/02/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.ncregister.com
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Media Clips, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
LifeNews: Alliance Defense Fund Legal Counsel Matt Bowman: “The government cannot tell Americans that certain parts of their faith are not important enough to practice. People of faith are explicitly protected by the Constitution and federal law from such radical state invasions of conscience. The Blunt/Fortenberry Amendment was a necessary measure to begin to restore the religious liberties of Americans that ObamaCare has trampled on with its assumption of unlimited bureaucratic power. Every vote for religious freedom should be unanimous, but tragically, our fundamental freedoms didn’t seem to matter to enough senators.”
- Posted: 03/02/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.lifenews.com
- Tags: Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: ACLJ, Group: Americans United for Life, Group: NARAL Pro-Choice America, Group: Planned Parenthood, Group: Suan B. Anthony List, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Catholic Culture: For the government to hold fast to its new definition of ministry, one crafted by the American Civil Liberties Union, reflects deafness to the Constitution that is unbecoming to the man sworn to defend it.
- Posted: 03/02/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.catholicculture.org
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: ACLU, Group: USCCB, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
CNSNews: “So you are saying, by not having babies born, we are going to save money on health care?” Murphy asked. Sebelius replied, “Providing contraception is a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children.” Murphy again sought clarification. “Not having babies born is a critical benefit. This is absolutely amazing to me. I yield back,” he said.
- Posted: 03/02/2012
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: cnsnews.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Congress, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Christian Newswire: The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the national federation of state right-to-life organizations, said today that it would continue to challenge the Obama Administration’s authority to mandate that virtually all employers pay for services they regard as morally objectionable, both in Congress and through political action.
- Posted: 03/01/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.christiannewswire.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Group: National Right to Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Christian Newswire: Today, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 51 – 48, defeated the effort led by Senator Roy Blunt (Missouri) to pass the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act as an amendment to pending legislation. Thirteen Catholic Senators joined the majority.
- Posted: 03/01/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.christiannewswire.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
The Blunt/Fortenberry Amendment was a necessary measure to begin to restore the religious liberties of Americans that ObamaCare has trampled on with its assumption of unlimited bureaucratic power. Every vote for religious freedom should be unanimous, but tragically, our fundamental freedoms didn’t seem to matter to enough senators.
- Posted: 03/01/2012
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- Category: Featured
- Tags: ADF: Matthew S. Bowman, ADF: Press Releases, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Congress, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Legislation, Topic: Obamacare
LifeNews: Leading pro-life organizations called on the Senate to vote for the amendment to the mandate the Obama administration issued, but Democrats banded together against republicans to defeat it on a 51 to 48 margin by adopting a motion to table, or kill, it.
- Posted: 03/01/2012
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- Category: Featured
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- Source: www.lifenews.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Congress, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Heritage Foundation, The Foundry: Since 1791, when the Bill of Rights was formally adopted, America has enjoyed the legal protection of religious freedom, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Today, 221 years later, centuries of progress in the protection of religious and other liberties is at risk of being rolled back in one fell swoop. The culprit: Obamacare.
- Posted: 03/01/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: blog.heritage.org
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
LifeNews: During a Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday night, Representative Sandy Adams questioned Dr. Linda Rosenstock, chair of the Preventive Services for Women Committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), about the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services’ (HHS) controversial mandate.
- Posted: 02/29/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: www.lifenews.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Congress, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
CNSNews: The Justice Department will defend against any legal challenge to the new Obama administration mandate to force employers to provide abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception, even if it goes against their conscience, Attorney General Eric Holder told a House subcommittee Tuesday.
- Posted: 02/29/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
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- Source: cnsnews.com
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Congress, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
CNSNews: A Georgetown co-ed told Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s hearing that the women in her law school program are having so much sex that they’re going broke, so you and I should pay for their birth control. | Commenting on the report in today’s broadcast, Rush Limbaugh said she is engaging in prostitution (wanting to be paid to have sex) and making “Johns” of taxpayers.
- Posted: 02/29/2012
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- Category: Religious Freedom
- Tags: Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Congress, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare
Human Events: ObamaCare’s requirement that every American buy government-mandated coverage will ensure that no religious person or institution will go untrampled in the President’s rush to line Planned Parenthood’s pockets and eliminate all consequences of irresponsible sexual behavior.
- Posted: 02/29/2012
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- Category: ADF in the News
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- Source: www.humanevents.com
- Tags: ADF: Media Clips, ADF: Steven H. Aden, Alliance Defense Fund, Category: Religious Freedom, Category: Sanctity of Life, Topic: Abortion, Topic: Colleges, Topic: Conscience, Topic: Contraception, Topic: Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Topic: Education, Topic: Insurance, Topic: Obamacare, ZZ: Geneva College v. Sebelius, ZZADF: 36970
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