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Obama’s HHS regs create government coercion to force all the citizens to participate in what some believe are unholy acts. As violations of freedom of thought go…that’s one.
A story about freedom of Conscience is well told by Edward Gibbon. The gist is that the Romans permitted any religion, except that everybody also had to participate in the additional Roman sacrament of bending their knee and burning incense to Caesar. Publicly acknowledging that government spoke with the power of a god was simply a required (annual?) ceremony of every person who lived under the protection of the Roman Eagle.
At these rituals some Christians refused to kneel: they valued Freedom of Conscience over their very lives. The long continued befuddlement of the Statist Roman officials dealing with those Christians who refused to perform the sacrament of acknowledging the word of government as the Word of a Greater God is a major theme in Gibbon’s telling of this tale. Rawls would have sided with the Romans. Our Founders sided with the Christians and wrote Freedom of Thought/Conscience into our first amendment. Pick a side, there is no compromise available on this one. Either our individual consciences or Obama’s HHS should control our morality.
Obama’s requried sacrament to the State isn’t a knee and incense, it is helping pay for other women to kill their babies. That is the sacrament that the Democrats require, or there will be punishment.
When Jesus said “Render onto Caesar what is Caesar’s and onto God what is God’s” he didn’t realize that, for liberals, Obama is both god and Caesar.
Although, to be fair, the reg doesn’t cover abortion services. It covers Plan B, which cannot reasonably be called an abortifacient.
There are two flaws in your reasoning, and they are:
1) You use of the term contraception in a “never the twain shall meet” sense, and
2) you pretend that Obama isn’t violating anybody’s Freedom of Conscience.
The government enforced package of “contraception” includes abortion pills and IUDs. Those products induce early abortions rather than prevent pregnancy. To pretend those are not abortifacient is to lie.
Changing the billing procedures is a sham transaction, and you know it.
The HHS regs make all Americans share the guilt for helping other women kill their babies. That is both morally bad, and unconstitutional. Sorry, but it just is.
Bashing Republicans is a tired formula. Ever thought about doing something original?
Agreed. This is a trite cartoon with a trite message. This cartoonist lacks both creativity and cartoon skills (see the disordering of the dialog boxes).
For the love of God, if you’re going to draw comics for a newspaper, learn how to order dialog.