Obama has a thing against Catholic.

As if the Contraceptive mandate wasn't enough bulling towards the Catholic Church, President Obama said in a speech in Ireland that "an alarming call for an end to catholic education" despite that Catholics are considered “a critical component of the church."

President Obama did not seem shy as he talked in front of an audience of about 2000 young people. Obama stated that Catholic education divides people and blocks peace.

"If towns remain divided- If Catholic schools have their schools and buildings and Protestants have their, if we can't see our self in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden- that too encourages division and discourages cooperation."

That is a very powerful statement President Obama, you believe in women having free choice when it comes to aborting a baby, Yet you do not believe in the choice of where they can send their child to school. How a child is raised should not be government mandated. Children of all ages should not be excepted to attended the same kind of schooling. Is this another issue of Religious Freedom? 

If you would like to argue that having Catholics and protestants in different schools, and that it encourages division. There is no such argument. Its not set up that you have to be Catholic to attend Catholic school, or the other way around. Each parent has choices to make when they raise children and which includes which environment they thing should be best for there family, and which school environment there child would do there best at. If we are the land of the free, where are all our freedoms?

Sunshine Girl in Red. 

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Mandate Violates Freedom

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Mandate Violates Freedom

Sunshine Girl in Red,

(aka) Rachel Brigham

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Religious Freedom and Contraceptives

Three weeks ago President Obama announced that employers healthcare plans were to cover all forms of contraceptives. He stated that this would be a big help to many everyday working American woman, that were paying out of pocket for birth control.

I personally had a  problem with this. I became really discouraged the more I talked to people that I came into contact with that seemed to find no wrong with President Obama mandate.

What about religious freedom?
Amendment 1, of the Constitution of the United states of America states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

All employers health care will cover contraception. A employer with strong religious views, such as a church or a religious organization is suppose to feel good about offering this to there employees. The first amendment protects the right of religious groups from President Obama's contraceptive mandate.

Although President Obama has come out and said that religious groups with be exempt from this mandate, I believe this fight is not over. As a christian and a defender of our constitutional rights we need to keep our eyes and ears open for what is to come of our health care.

Sunshine Girl in Red

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