Obamacare contraception mandate could shut down order of nuns who care for the elderly

Here's a snippet from http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-obama-care/092713-672999-obamacare-contraception-mandate-threatens-little-sisters.htm?ven=rss:

A group of nuns dedicated to caring for the elderly poor is suing to prevent an uncaring administration from shutting down their compassionate order over their refusal to obey the contraception mandate.

There is no clearer or sadder example of the Obama administration's war on the First Amendment's guarantee of religious liberty than the demand by the Department of Health and Human Services to violate their religious consciences or pay heavy fines.

HHS has ruled that if the Sisters don't offer insurance policies to their employees that include free coverage for sterilization procedures, artificial contraceptives and abortifacients, these vowed-to-poverty women will have to pay about $1 million in IRS fines, effectively making their work nearly impossible.


If there was any doubt about this "health care" law having nothing to do with health care and everything to do with wielding power over ordinary Americans, this article should erase that doubt. If this administration goes forward with a lawsuit against these nuns, the rights of every religious person in this country are threatened. Even if you aren't religious, what this president is doing to our Constitutional rights should make you furious. Your rights could be the next ones threatened.