HHS Mandate Attempts to Kick the Church While She Is Down
The HHS mandate is about curtailing religious freedom. More specifically, this current administration seems most interested in curtailing the Church's evangelization efforts and acquiring for itself a nation-wide health care network. With the HHS mandate, the current administration and its adherents are revealing that they know as well as we do that the separation of Church and State is a fallacy. As long as the Church exists, it will always be involved in evangelizing the State and its citizenry. The Church, or more broadly, religion cannot be separated from the State and in the history of the world, there are very few, if any, examples of such a separation. To effect a separation requires the elimination of the Church. Over these two and a third centuries the Church has worked hard to appease the State in the hopes that the State will allow her to maintain her tax exempt status. Appeasement has taken many forms from carefully wording homilies and sta...