Has Obama Reduced The Right To Religious Freedom?

Here, that is not an issue, As we do have Universal health care.
But any medical benefits are blanketed within the system so Religious employers have never said Yea or Nae to what is included in health care.

That's ok. Catholics have a year to "get used" to breaking their beliefs permanently. Everybody knows that time will heal all wounds (including being forced to break religious values).

More hope and change for the masses.

Are you ok with your health care system, P'tuny?

Nothing is perfect, I know.

I'd like to see everyone have decent health care coverage here in the USA.

Oops. Maybe my post doesn't belong here. Sorry.

This is just a strawman because, as Dave said

From the MSNBC article:

There's the answer to their problem. And if they no longer can get employees, oh well. At least they had a CHOICE. Seems to me there are many faith-based initiatives trying to take away CHOICES for women. Now they can see how it feels.

Too bad the Catholic Church has no CHOICE. They'll have to eat their Hope and Change.

When the government can tell a religious organization they have to shelf one of their founding ideals (the protection of life) for what big brother wants, you have totally f*cked over the separation of church and state. Goddamn let's be sure and separate the church and state when the goddamn Ten commandments are displayed in front of a courthouse but let's f*cking put the state right smack dab up the ass of the Catholic church and control it like a puppet for abortion's sake and that's all good.

What a bunch of shit. Spit.

And another thing...

Instead of stomping their little feet and saying NO ONE should benefit from this just because they are against it, why don't they look for and advocate a solution that might work for EVERYONE.

Like what? What's your ideas?

I've come to accept that we must keep religion out of areas where it may hurt others that aren't religious or have a different religion.

So much goes on which I have problems with..... I think we should/can be better. But I have no control over it. All I can do is live my life by example and speak out when I can. I am but one voice...all I can hope for is a change of heart from those who think/feel differently than I do.

The Church will drop coverage because of this. There's no way they will succumb to this nonsense. It's just another way for big brother to wrap its gnarly, greedy hands around more and more control.

People are blind.

Oh you think? You just witnessed the strong arm tactic that razed the Komen decision to stop funding PP? The pressure on businesses to ALL comply and adopt Obamycare will make that crap we saw look like a picnic. Obamy and crew are going for the gusto with this move. The ramifications of this go much further than the Catholic Church.

I see no reason why is should not be here (your question) Worsted, but in reply to your question....Yes, I like it, as is with anything, it can be improved on, but for the most part it works.
I think that what is important here is there is no division between classes....The man in the middle....the working stiff is not penalized because he earns a wage....The poor ger it free, and the Rich get the same services free, so does the Working person as well. I think that is what important.

But the big political news of the week isn't Mr. Romney's gaffe, or even his victory in Florida. The big story took place in Washington. That's where a bomb went off that not many in the political class heard, or understood.

But President Obama just may have lost the election.

Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center of Politics, on Mitt Romney's huge fundraising advantage and Democrats' cash haul.
The president signed off on a Health and Human Services ruling that says that under ObamaCare, Catholic institutions—including charities, hospitals and schools—will be required by law, for the first time ever, to provide and pay for insurance coverage that includes contraceptives, abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization procedures. If they do not, they will face ruinous fines in the millions of dollars. Or they can always go out of business.

In other words, the Catholic Church was told this week that its institutions can't be Catholic anymore.

I invite you to imagine the moment we are living in without the church's charities, hospitals and schools. And if you know anything about those organizations, you know it is a fantasy that they can afford millions in fines.

There was no reason to make this ruling—none. Except ideology.
The conscience clause, which keeps the church itself from having to bow to such decisions, has always been assumed to cover the church's institutions.
Now the church is fighting back. Priests in an estimated 70% of parishes last Sunday came forward to read strongly worded protests from the church's bishops. The ruling asks the church to abandon Catholic principles and beliefs; it is an abridgment of the First Amendment; it is not acceptable. They say they will not bow to it. They should never bow to it, not only because they are Catholic and cannot be told to take actions that deny their faith, but because they are citizens of the United States.

If they stay strong and fight, they will win. This is in fact a potentially unifying moment for American Catholics, long split left, right and center. Catholic conservatives will immediately and fully oppose the administration's decision. But Catholic liberals, who feel embarrassed and undercut, have also come out in opposition.

The church is split on many things. But do Catholics in the pews want the government telling their church to contravene its beliefs? A president affronting the leadership of the church, and blithely threatening its great institutions? No, they don't want that. They will unite against that.

The smallest part of this story is political. There are 77.7 million Catholics in the United States. In 2008 they made up 27% of the electorate, about 35 million people. Mr. Obama carried the Catholic vote, 54% to 45%. They helped him win.
They won't this year. And guess where a lot of Catholics live? In the battleground states.

There was no reason to pick this fight. It reflects political incompetence on a scale so great as to make Mitt Romney's gaffes a little bitty thing.
There was nothing for the president to gain, except, perhaps, the pleasure of making a great church bow to him.
Enjoy it while you can.

You have awakened a sleeping giant.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203889904577199523577373982.html

Good analogy Dave.

I agree, "Special Cases" always upset the Apple carts!