Government – Our New God and Savior.

Government – Our New God and Savior ( A Commentary on the Controversy Between the Government and the Catholic Church over Contraceptives and Abortifacient Drugs)


Recently a huge controversy erupted over a decision by the Obama Administration to command religious organizations like the Catholic church and their sister organizations to provide birth control and some abortifacients  in all their insurance coverage.   Such a decree from on high is completely against the long-held religious doctrine of the Catholic church.  Also it flies in the face of many evangelical churches whose established teaching sees abortifacient drugs as abortion.  This would be little more than a government imposed type of “Abortion on Command.” 

There are two reasons why the recent Obama administration decree to the religious community is so odious.  The first reason is the way that it egregiously disregards the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  The actions of the government trample upon the “free exercise” of religious principle in this case.  What the Obama administration has done is use Obama-care and the unconstitutional powers is gives them to tell the church where it will and will not stand on issues of conscience.  This is just a foretaste of what is coming from the behemoth 2700 page Obama-care bill.  Truly we are slowly learning what Nancy Pelosi meant when she told us we would have to pass the bill in order to find out what is in it.  Now we are learning to our growing horror that it contains multiple violations of the very principles contained in our founding document.  Who would have thought that the very right of freedom of religion would be crushed by a health care bill.  The fact we are slowly beginning to see is that this bill gives government the power to tell the religious community what they will believe and what they will practice.  Thus the new religion of the United States, socialism, will be forced on all of us by the out of control Obama administration.

The second objection is how this decree has unconstitutionally made the government the “lord” of commerce by being able to tell insurance companies that they MUST offer contraception and other birth control and abortifacients to women free of charge.  This action breaches the public trust by allowing unelected officials in the Health and Human Services agency to tell companies to give away services with no recourse for their expenses in doing so.  What else will our government tell us to give away at full charge to us – but no charge to the recipients?  This is nothing more than a “Robin-hood” form of the government taking from one and choosing who it will give it to in the end.  Again the political, and now apparently religious, views of Socialism are being made the official doctrine and law of our country.  This won’t last because any economy based on Socialism will, as Margaret Thatcher so wisely said, eventually run out of other people’s money. 

This was trumpeted as a compromise, but the truth is that it is an end run around their former decision.  Someone will have to pay for these things.  The illusion of free contraceptives and abortifacients will be countered by the higher premiums that these organizations will pay for their policies.  There is no such thing as a free lunch.  Someone will have to pay.  Oh, by the way, that someone is those of us in the church community, who find forced compliance on these matters truly disgusting.

There is no room to compromise on this, especially when the compromise offered is an insult to any thinking person’s intelligence.  I fully support those in the Catholic community, as well as anyone in the religious community, when they call for a full repeal of these degrees of our new “King George” that go against everything our forefathers fought and died for when they broke away from England.  At risk is far more than just an open political battle with our current administration.  Honestly, at risk is the freedom to hold ANY view that goes against our current administration’s enforced public conscience.  How long do you think it will be before other matters of conscience come under fire?  Slowly we are being introduced to the new doctrinal views of our government.  These views do not allow for religious conscientious objectors – only for those who bow at the altar of government as our new god and savior.