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Obamacare versus Religious Freedom

By Ernest Istook on February 3, 2012

Is Obamacare being used to suppress religious freedom? That’s what American Catholics are being told in letters read from the pulpit. They’ve angry about the latest government edict, requiring employer-provided health insurance to cover all forms of government-approved contraception, including methods that chemically abort a newly-conceived fetus. Clergy in a…

Rubio Condemns Obamacare on Grounds of Religious Freedom

By Deanna Gillen on February 3, 2012

Sen. Marco Rubio(R-Fla.) is speaking out against the Obama administration’s decision to require faith-based groups to offer insurance plans that cover birth control. In a New York Post Op-Ed, the Senator urged the United States to take advantage of his Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012, a bill he introduced…

Vandy Failure

By Ernest Istook on February 1, 2012

My opinion of Vanderbilt University just went down. Like too many other colleges, Vanderbilt has adopted a policy they claim is to ban discrimination, but in fact tramples on First Amendment rights. According to Vanderbilt officials, the Christian Legal Society cannot require that members be Christians. They not only must…