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The Obama administration has mandated that Catholic institutions, as employers, fund the prescribing of abortifacient contraceptive drugs to their employees. Unsurprisingly, Catholics are somewhat upset about this.<\/p>\nThe Obama administration has mandated that Catholic institutions, as employers, fund the prescribing of abortifacient contraceptive drugs to their employees. Unsurprisingly, Catholics are somewhat upset about this.<\/p>\n
Archbishop Robert Duncan has made this statement<\/a> in support of the Catholic Church:<\/p>\n Archbishop Robert Duncan released the following statement in support of the Catholic Church\u2019s fight to maintain freedom of conscience in the midst of the U.S. federal government issuing a preventive care mandate in violation of its teaching.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe Anglican Church in North America stands by our Catholic brothers and sisters as followers of Christ in a nation whose Constitution guarantees \u2018the free exercise\u2019 of religion.\u00a0 As Christians, our faith and doctrine are at the very heart of our service to others in our community.\u00a0 Therefore, it is extremely troubling to see our government mandate services contrary to Catholic Church teaching.\u00a0 I call on all members of the Anglican Church to stand by our Catholic brothers and sisters, and pray for our elected officials to have the courage to stand up for religious freedom and overturn this mandate,\u201d said Archbishop Duncan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As Archbishop Duncan has called \u201con all members of the Anglican Church\u201d to add their support, I\u2019m expecting a flood of agreement from Anglican bishops all over North America, starting with Katharine Jefferts-Schori and Fred Hiltz.<\/p>\n Or not.<\/p>\n The pathetic truth is that, for all their trumpeting about social justice<\/em>, both TEC and the ACoC are completely indifferent to the injustice that will define the callous barbarity of Western civilisation for ages to come: murdering their unborn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Obama administration has mandated that Catholic institutions, as employers, fund the prescribing of abortifacient contraceptive drugs to their employees. Unsurprisingly, Catholics are somewhat upset about this. Archbishop Robert Duncan has made this statement in support of the Catholic Church: … Continue reading