I came across this piece in The Federalist by Alex Grass and it reminded me of some of the good discussion we had back on the old DCF about Little Sisters of the Poor.
I Don’t Mind Using Preferred Pronouns. I Mind Being Forced Into It
In 2016, the Little Sisters of the Poor—a group of Catholic nuns who provide low-income housing to the elderly—pleaded to the Supreme Court that they could not provide birth control to employees as a matter of religious conscience. When President Obama’s Solicitor General Don Verrilli was asked during oral argument whether forcing the Little Sisters to provide birth control meant they would be, in their own understanding, complicit in a moral wrong, Verrilli said it was up to the court to define the Little Sisters’ beliefs: “We’re saying that the judgment about complicity is up to you.”
The reasoned theological argument of some 50 Catholic theologians and ethicists that “judgments by federal courts about profound and difficult questions of moral complicity … res[t] on misapprehensions about the theological principles of the religious traditions at issue” was not a rationale that the Obama administration, with its vision of a postliberal societal order, was willing to accept. Not then, not now, not ever.
We have only had a passing word or two about Little Sisters over here. viewtopic.php?p=20478#p20478
Is there anyone among us here that defends the atrocity of compelled speech? Here's some reading if you are interested. https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/15 ... 5392012pdfKath wrote:IIRC - they were asked to sign a piece of paper indicating they would not do that. That was the big controversy. I'm not getting into it again; just clarifying what the whole gun-to-the-head was over.Fife wrote:Good riddance. It can't come fast enough.
The one act that defined President Barack Obama
Despite your personal feelings on his coolness, his character, his charisma, or his competence, Barack Obama will forever be the president who worked diligently to put the gun of government to the heads of the Little Sisters of the Poor, demanding that they either pay to destroy children in the womb or be crushed.
Save us Gorsuch-Won Kenobi.
