Obama admin not so sensitive to Christian college’s religious feelings
Wheaton College never burned anything down, so its feelings don’t count.
How ironic in light of the deep sensitivity to religious feelings in the Middle East being exhibited by the Obama administration this week.
In case you had not heard, in late August a federal judge ruled against religious freedom in favor of Obamacare by throwing out a suit filed by Wheaton College.
A federal district judge has thrown out Wheaton College’s lawsuit that attempted to reverse the Obama Administration’s health insurance mandate forcing the Christian college to pay for its employees’ morning-after pill costs.
The Chicago Tribune reports that:
“U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle ruled that the lawsuit was premature because the government would not enforce the mandate against Wheaton until August 2013 and promised to revise the mandate to accommodate some religious institutions before it goes into effect.”
But the college, which refers to morning-after pills as “abortion causing drugs,” responded with concern over the ruling, and may appeal:
“The government argued that Wheaton’s case should not proceed because it is premature—but the court is mistaken in accepting that argument,” says Kyle Duncan, General Counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which represents Wheaton College in its case. “In dismissing this case, the court did not address the substantive merits—Wheaton’s argument that being forced to offer drugs that violate its religious beliefs is harmful to its religious freedom.”
Update: Eric Rassbach of The Becket Fund writes:
Just so you are aware, Wheaton has appealed Judge Huvelle’s ruling, and the appeal has since been set for expedited hearing at the D.C. Circuit.
http://www.becketfund.org/wheaton-college-appeals-dismissal-of-hhs-lawsuit/
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For a moment when I read the president rejecting people who denigrated others’ religions, I thought he was making a joke. His party, including leaders, have been slurring Catholicism and Christians generally, especially of the fundamentalist sort, for years.
Professor, I don’t think it’s just that they’re not afraid that the women’s studies building is going to be attacked. I think it’s what Robert Conquest calls hesperophobia, an unreasoning hatred of the west. Since our culture is uniquely evil, founded on slavery, oppressive, etc. (an assertion easily disprovable, of course) then, in sort of a reverse Edward Saidism, they embrace “the Other” because it’s the other. And Islam is about as other as you can get from American society.
This is why you see, for example, feminists eagerly supporting Palestinians and other Muslims. What isn’t important is how the Muslims would treat them–they have no worries that they’ll ever be forced to deal with that–it’s that it’s the anti-west.
So they’ll blame the US and, of course, Israel, whenever anything like these outrages happens. Makes them feel very superior, doesn’t it? And isn’t that a large part of what it means to be leftist?
The message seems to be that us “bitter clingers” need to wage some destruction and inflict some pain in order to be taken seriously.
“The U.S. deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.” –official statement on behalf of the administration by Sec. of State Clinton
People with an Ivy League or Chicago connection need to be thoroughly vetted for the Progressive Disease before being hired or recommended for any position in local, state or federal gov’t including public education systems and institutions of higher learning. Also, any position that can be used to influence culture or the indoctrination of young minds.