Related link: VICTORY: 10th Circuit Overturns Denial of Hobby Lobby InjunctionNRO: The biggest judicial victory yet in the cases of religious objectors to Obamacare’s Department of Health and Human Services abortion-drug, contraception, sterilization mandate has come [Thursday] in a ruling for Hobby Lobby, allowing the case to go on without the imminent threat of fines.
Although consistently pretending to have accommodated religious-organizations concerns, the White House has never voiced an interest in the religious-liberty rights of business owners; and this latest ruling, is a positive sign that there are jurists who can see through the secularist ideology to protect religious freedom.
This comes during the second Fortnight for Freedom, a two week period of prayer and education lead by Catholics, seeking to remind people of our civic responsibilities as stewards of civil liberties. As the Green family that runs Hobby Lobby has expressed, Christianity is a seven-day a week matter, it’s a call to an integrated life, not something that can be confined — and by the government — to inside houses of worship — or Sunday flows into Monday as New York’s Cardinal Dolan recently put it.
No matter how big or small it may seem, we'll graciously take the victory in this growing age of secularization and statism.
Thanks to the Green family for drawing a line in the sand. We have to draw lines in the sand. Or we’re going to be sliding down a “ski slope.”Onward Christian soldiers...
When religious liberty was threatened, where were we? Increasingly we will be called to rise to the occasion.
