Respect for the Rights of Conscience Act

The Senate is expected to vote THIS week on important legislation sponsored by Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri. It would protect the rights of conscience for religious organizations and for businesses so they wouldn’t be forced by the federal government to pay for medical procedures which violate their moral beliefs. It would provide conscience protections for ALL Americans.

Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan recently wrote every bishop in our nation on this subject. He said, in part:

In the United States, religious liberty does not depend on the benevolence of who is regulating us. It is our “first freedom” and respect for it must be broad and inclusive—not narrow and exclusive. Catholics and other people of faith and good will are not second class citizens. And it is not for the government to decide which of our ministries is “religious enough” to warrant religious freedom protection.

It is critical that you contact your Senators and tell them to Vote YES on the Blunt Amendment. More importantly, PRAY that God’s will be done “on earth as it is in heaven!”

• Read HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s statement on this rule and comments by Senate Democrats supporting it.
• Read Senator Rob Portman’s letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, and watch the Floor speeches of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner.

 

Tell 2012 candidates to “Enforce the Laws.”

Morality In Media reports that three of the four remaining GOP candidates have agreed that should they be elected, they would appoint a U.S. Attorney General who would defend women and children and make enforcing existing federal obscenity laws a priority in their Justice Department.

This is what we need! Pornography and the many harms associated with it have been pushed under the rug for way too long. Millions have been harmed and countless families have been torn apart. The average age of first exposure to pornography is now 8 years old and to hard-core, Internet pornography at 11. This widespread, evil addiction is toxic to marriages and relationships. It contributes to violence against women and is a contributing factor to prostitution and sex trafficking.

Groups like Morality in Media are working hard to bring this issue to the forefront and all of this hard work is paying off! Now we need to encourage all the candidates to speak out on these critical social issues! Tell 2012 candidates to “Enforce the Laws.”

You can contact their campaigns by calling them at 1-877-354-2951.

The Values-less Welfare State

Just a generation ago, the majority of children were raised by a married mother and a father in the same home. Some families were below the “poverty line” and a growing secular government stepped in and awarded more money and food stamps to single parents. This welfare prompted an increase in sexual promiscuity and a decrease in marriage and two-parent families.

Today, the majority of children will face the trauma of divorced or separated parents, at some age before they graduate from college.

Among the many causes for concern is that when a child is raised without both a mother and father in the household, one of the first lessons he or she learns is that commitment is not valued.

Without valuing commitment, children don’t commit to their studies, to society or to relationships. This explains the breakdown of “values” in our society, because when government grows, so do socialism and secularism.

Let’s pray for a return of Bible-based “values” and personal commitment.

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Religious Rights & The Culture of Death

The Obama administration wanted to compel Catholic religious institutions to join the culture of death, by forcing them to provide insurance coverage for their employees for contraception, sterilization and drugs that cause abortions. The President is now reportedly willing to compromise and will require the insurance companies of those institutions to provide the controversial services. The religious institution would still have to pay for it–in higher premiums.

In its initial “mandate” this ultra-liberal administration violated not only the conscience rights of practicing Catholics, but also the conscience rights of millions of “separated brethren,” Protestants like us, who rely on Catholic health care to uphold the sanctity of life.

This unprecedented overreach by the federal government was not just out of step with conservatives and Republicans, it is completely out of line with the best traditions of President Obama’s own Democratic party. All Americans have a stake in this conflict. It is not a question of methods of birth control or even abortion itself. If the Catholic Church’s conscience rights can be rejected, our rights will not be respected long. If the government can “mandate” an individual or group to violate one’s “sacred” conscience, then there is no limit to governmental power. All of our cherished constitutional rights would be subject to the whims of the federal government and those in power. One religious group’s beliefs are being trampled today; another’s might be tomorrow.

This menacing mentality must be resisted by all Americans who value our God-given rights of conscience. Call or write your representatives in Congress now—before it is too late! And then, register and prayerfully vote—for those who will boldly protect your precious religious rights! It is your Biblical responsibility!