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Tristyn Bloom
Matthew Cantirino
Anthony Esolen
Gene Fant
Greg Forster
Matthew J. Franck
Collin Garbarino
Robert P. George
William J. Haun
Leroy Huizenga
Katherine Infantine
Joseph Knippenberg
David T. Koyzis
Robert T. Miller
Matthew Milliner
David Mills
Mark Movsesian
William Mumma
Nathaniel Peters
R.R. Reno
James R. Rogers
Russell E. Saltzman
Matthew Schmitz
Kevin Staley-Joyce
David Talcott
Anna Williams
The Catholic Information Center in DC hosted a panel discussion of the HHS mandate, the First Amendment, and subsidiarity. The panel included James Capretta of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Richard Doerflinger from the USCCB, Kyle Duncan from the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, moderated by Ryan Williams, a doctoral candidate and teaching fellow at Catholic University.
Watch the discussion on C-SPAN
February 12th, 2012 | 9:48 am
This is an outstanding panel discussion and brings up most (perhaps all) of the topics covered in FT’s recent posts—first amendment issues, the rights of the individual in the protection of conscience, the state insurance plans touted by the left (“28 states”‘ the “Hawaii” alternative).
The Q and A also brings up great points, including:
— The disappearance of Obama’s promise that “if you already have an insurance plan you like, you can keep that insurance”.
— The failure to comply brings a heavy fine that reminds us of the “religion tax”‘ levied on Jews and Christians who want to practice their faiths some parts of the world
— some of the earliest measures taken to quash Jews in Nazi Germany included excluding Jewish doctors from insurance programs and forbidding Jewosh doctors from treating non-Jewish patients.
A participant also notes that the HHS mandate’s religious exemption is so narrow that it would exclude Jesus and Mother Teresa, both of whom ministered to those outside their faiths. it is the “non-Good Samaritan” ruling. It forces us to practice our religion by abandoning Christianity.