All it Will Take is for 4 Hospitals to Shut Down…
and liberals will run cowering before the public backlash. This article from AgapePress tells the story:
...Pro-life activists have gathered in Connecticut to oppose a bill that would require Catholic hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape victims. The state legislature’s Public Health Committee is to have a hearing today on the bill. It would require all hospitals, including Connecticut’s four Catholic hospitals, to provide the so-called “morning-after pill” to women who are victims of rape or incest. Connecticut Right to Life held a rally against the bill yesterday at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury, one of the institutions that would be affected. Connecticut Right to Life President Bill O’Brien says the bill would violate religious freedom.
First it was Big Brother in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts ordering WalMart around, telling WalMart pharmacy what it must sell. That’s bad enough—no real patriot voted for this one (and by the way, liberals love to tell us “don’t question my patriotism”, and I generally do not—in fact, I don’t know that I’ve hardly ever heard that happen, liberal protests aside—but I’ll go on the record on this one: no real American patriot could possibly vote to require a store to carry a certain item. Period.). But that’s a retail store. This is a church-run ministry, and I really, really hope that whoever in the Catholic church makes these decisions—the cardinal, or whomever—will call Connecticut’s bluff, and say, “fine, you want to infringe upon our Constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of religion? Then we will shut all four hospitals down.” That really, really needs to happen, badly…and then Big Brother will stop trying to shove its secular religion down the throats of Americans.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
One Response to “All it Will Take is for 4 Hospitals to Shut Down…”
The dollar is mightier and more important than the moral ramifications for the Catholic Church or any religious group that would stand up to a ruling like this. 4 hospitals shutting down would be a finger in the eye of a rediculour ruling, but 4 hospitals shutting down would also be a large loss financially to the church. Don’t know if it will happen. Guess we’ll have to see…
Vigilius ~ Mar 7, 2006 at 6:05 am