President Obama, in your speech at Notre Dame and elsewhere, you promised that you would provide conscience exemptions for those whose faith forbade their participation in evil.
You have broken that promise by forcing our Church to provide insurance coverage for sterilization, contraception, and various abortifacient drugs. These are practices that for 2,000 years we have taught are intrinsically evil.
You disagree. We understand. But you refuse to respect our right to live out our faith. You have decided to use the coercive power of the state to force your fellow citizens to commit what they believe are evil acts. You have asked the impossible. We cannot be good Americans by being bad Christians.
Turn from your intolerance. Leave in place the conscience exemptions that have served us well since 1973 (42 USC 300a-7 (d)). Vacate the proposed HHS mandate.
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Conscience Protection Quotes
In effect, the president is saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences.
- Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York
The Obama administration has just told the Catholics of the United States, ‘To Hell with you!’ There is no other way to put it.
- Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh
I am honestly horrified that the nation I have always loved has come to this hateful and radical step in religious intolerance.
- Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria
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