Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput is calling on Americans to "wake up" and recognize that the Founding Fathers' vision of religious freedom is now threatened by the federal government, the Cybercast News Service website reports today (June 8, 2013).
"The day when Americans could take the Founders' understanding of religious freedom as a given is over," said the archbishop. "We need to wake up."
Chaput -- who leads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia -- pointed to Obamacare's sterilization-contraception-abortifacient regulation as one example. The regulation, issued by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, requires almost all health-care plans in the United States to provide coverage for sterilizations, artificial contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs to all women of reproductive age -- even if the person or employer providing the insurance coverage and even if the female beneficiaries themselves do not want the coverage and believe it is morally wrong and violates their religious beliefs.
"The HHS mandate can only be understood as a form of coercion," Archbishop Chaput wrote in a recent column posted on the website of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The column is entitled, "Religious Freedom and the Need to Wake Up."
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