It’s about religious freedom, y’all, and it’s nothing to sit back and take lightly.
“The challenge facing you, dear friends, is to increase people’s awareness of the importance for society of religious freedom; to defend that freedom against those who would take religion out of the public domain and establish secularism as America’s official faith. And it is vitally necessary for the very survival of the American experience, to transmit to the next generation the precious legacy of religious freedom and the convictions which sustain it.”— Blessed John Paul II, 1995 Baltimore, Basilica of the Assumption
Read what the USCCB recommends…a prayer for religious freedom, videos, other resources here.
Some time this week the Supreme Court will decide how much power the government can exercise over your healthcare decisions. Every time you are confronted with difficult choices having to do with, health, life, and death, the government will there to monitor your decision is compliant with the government’s idea of what is good and moral.
Mind you, not your idea of what is good and moral but the government’s idea.
If the government’s action sound un-Americans, un-Constitutional and unprecedented to you, YOU ARE RIGHT. They are, Neverthless, this is reality.
Dr. José R. Fernández-Rangel