Let’s Be Frank (O’Brien)

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National Review:

Let’s Be Frank (O’Brien)

A court offers temporary conscience relief.

By Kathryn Jean Lopez

‘In essence, if you are Catholic in this country, you no longer can own a company,” Frank O’Brien explains.

O’Brien, a St. Louis refractory distributor, is one of more than 40 plaintiffs in a suit against the federal Department of Health and Human Services over its mandate requiring employers to provide workers with insurance that covers contraception, abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilization. This controversial Obamacare regulation threatens the religious liberty not only of Catholics trying to live according to their faith but also of evangelicals and others who object to any of these policies.

“By means of this law, the Obama administration has mandated that no Catholic can own a business and provide health insurance to their employees without incurring crippling fines,” O’Brien says. And it’s not only Catholics the administration’s regulation would keep inside churches. This posture is one that the Department of Justice has been defending in court, arguing that an individual makes a choice to put these religious-liberty claims aside when he decides to run a company. “Once someone starts a

[Valin]

Wonder what would happen if all Catholic (or any other faith)owned businesses/institutions Came out and said we're shutting down for two weeks to pray that our rights are returned?