BY JOHN S. CARROLL -President Obama has repaid the Catholic Church for its support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by seeking to breach the Constitutionally protected separation of church and state. His Health and Human Service Department effectively denied conscience protections to church-run schools, hospitals and social service agencies, ruling that they must provide free contraception to employees, in violation of church teaching.
As a staunch constitutionalist, a Catholic and a believer in pro-life; this offends me on three levels. This is nothing less than an affront to American democracy and an assault on the U.S. Constitution. My opponent in the Hawaii’s Republican Primary, Ex-Governor Lingle, shares none of my three beliefs and will let this issue pass in the “spirit of bi-partisan placation.” This is just one reason she should not be elected to represent Hawaii’s Republicans as their Senatorial candidate.
This can and should be Obama’s undoing. I sincerely hope that the Church and the Catholic Health Association have learned their lesson. And that lesson is that people who espouse socialist “reforms” cannot be trusted. Their promise that no abortion funding was contained in Obama Care was as hollow as their oath to uphold the United States Constitution.
The Catholic Church as well as all Christian denominations are now in a fight to protect their very existence. Make no mistake about it, this attempt to force secular authority on them is just the beginning.
The separation of church and state is not a new concept. English philosopher John Locke argued that government lacked authority in the realm of individual conscience. Thomas Jefferson, an admirer of Locke’s ideas wrote:
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”, thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.
These concepts were codified into the U.S. Constitution. I believe that this document is the sacred foundation of our individual liberties and the basis for our country’s greatness, and is not subject to contemporary revisionists like Barack Obama.
Whomever is elected to serve Hawaii in the U.S. Senate will be in a fight to protect our Constitution. Lingle will compromise; I will not.
John Carroll is a candidate for US Senate. See more at https://www.Carroll4senate.com
It’s baffling to me why conservatives have do deceive the public when they argue against an issue. Mr. Carroll failed to mention a key provision which makes a lot of difference. President Obama’s mandate is for those organizations that are given PUBLIC
It’s baffling to me why conservatives have do deceive the public when they argue against an issue. Mr. Carroll failed to mention a key provision which makes a lot of difference. President Obama’s mandate is for those organizations that are given PUBLIC money (taxpayer dollars) in support of the operation. In any case, after this article, President Obama stated that religious organizations will not have to supply women with birth control, but that their insurance companies do. Insurance companies are there for the public, and should provide full coverage regardless of the person’s religious affiliation. It is not ethical to force me to pay taxes to support religious beliefs in which I do not believe. Readers should read the Virginia Statute for Religious Liberty, written by Thomas Jefferson. It is the document from which the Establish Clause of the First Amendment was crafted. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_for_Religious_Freedom
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