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  • Jess Clark
    Jess is a writer and the mother of 4 children on earth and 2 children in heaven. When she's not answering questions about the universe or saving the baby from himself, she blogs about adoption, mothering, life, and special needs.
    
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  • Natalie Brumfield
    Natalie has been the Bound4LIFE Birmingham Chapter Leader since 2008. She works as a curriculum writer and volunteer coordinator for the children’s ministry at her local church in Birmingham, Alabama. She’s on the leadership team for the Birmingham Prayer Furnace as a prayer leader and serves as a weekly counselor for Sav-A-Life, a local pregnancy test center. Natalie longs to teach and provoke the hearts of the next generation for Jesus’ righteousness, intercession, and justice!
    
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    Ellie lives in quaint Jasper, AL with her husband Andrew. They are passionate lovers of Jesus and live to share His word and love with anyone they meet. They believe the kindness of God is what brings change and are fully committed to being vessels of that kindness. Ellie loves to minister to women, to teach, to dance, to hug, and of course to hold babies.
    
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    Matt is a husband and proud father of four children. He's a full-time missionary serving as the Director of Bound4LIFE and the Justice House of Prayer DC. Formerly he had a career in advertising and marketing. These days he really wishes he had paid more attention in government class.
    
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Posts tagged 'Catholic church':

• Why we must stand with the Catholic church against Obamacare

  Posted by Christina Martin on February 1, 2012

  If you’re a pro-lifer who has been in this movement for any amount of time you’ve likely grown to respect the Catholic church’s stand on abortion. You may not agree with all their beliefs, but you can’t deny they’ve been a consistent voice for life over this past century.

  Currently Catholic leaders are fighting an oppressive requirement from the Department of Health and Human Services, which would force Catholic schools, hospitals and other organizations to provide health insurance to their employees which includes sterilization, coverage for abortion inducing drugs, and subsidized contraception. This requirement backs them into a corner, forcing them to comply and go against their core convictions and religious beliefs or suffer grave consequences. (Read yesterday’s story about this for more detail)

  Thankfully many bishops are taking a stand. A version of the same letter written by various bishops of was read in congregations across the country last week declaring they will not comply with this policy. In an online article from “Catholic Online,” Deacon Keith Fournier references a recent address the Pope gave in which he praised America’s founders for their commitment to religious freedom and their belief that Judeo-Christian moral teachings are essential to shaping citizens and democratic institutions. The Pope then warned that the heritage of religious freedoms faces “grave threats” from the “radical secularism” of political and cultural opinion leaders who are “increasingly hostile to Christianity.”

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• Obama admin drives right to choose down a one-way street

  Posted by Susan Michelle on January 31, 2012

  Choice by its nature implies that each American is granted individual liberty to act according to conscience. These rights are consistently protected by the laws and the Supreme Court itself, with the only real exceptions being when someone’s rights infringe upon another’s. The classic example we discuss in civics classes is a variation of this: I have the right to free speech but that right doesn’t allow me to cry “FIRE!” in a crowded theater because then my "right' endangers all the people who possibly trample on each other to get out. Since I've now endangered the public with my "freedom,"  it's no longer mine to use.

  We told you recently how the Obama administration had decided to use its governmental "rights" to usurp the choice of Catholics and pro-life business providers who previously were granted the right to exercise their consciences and demonstrate religious freedom to not provide services such as abortion pills, sterilization, and even the types of contraception that are abortive. If you missed that update you can find it here.

  Sunday morning, virtually every Catholic church in America read a letter to its congregants announcing it could not comply, and calling the church to action. Business Insider reports on this and says, accurately:

  To give an analogy, it would be like the government mandating that all delis, even Kosher delis, serve pork products and then justifying it by saying that protein is healthy, and many Jews who don't follow Kosher laws and many non-Jews go to those delis. The law wouldn't technically ban Jews from owning delis, but it would effectively ban their ability to run them according to their conscience.

  Consider this. If a person, by virtue of a religious value, chooses to abstain from something, should government, founded on a free religious expressing then forbid that liberty? Does a Jewish hospital have a right to only serve Kosher food in its cafeteria even if non-Jews patronize it? Do I demand an Islamic business be open on Islamic holidays because they aren’t my holidays? These questions, which may seem ridiculous, are nothing compared to the liberty stolen by the Obama administration who has decided that these Christian organizations not only don’t have the right to not provide these services but must actually pay for others to have them.

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