OPINION:
Wake up, America. Our religious liberty is in danger - not from a foreign power but from our own government (“Obama pushes agenda at prayer breakfast,” Web, Thursday).
If the Obama administration has its way in enforcing Obamacare, hospitals, schools and charitable organizations run by churches will be forced to provide medical insurance to their employees. Those plans would pay, among other things, for contraceptives, abortion-inducing medications and sterilization. The Catholic Church would be particularly hard hit, as it has a majority of the hospitals, schools and charities that would be affected.
I urge all freedom-loving Americans to contact their members of Congress and ask them to support the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (H.R. 1179, S. 1467). Many of our forebears fought and died to protect this most precious of freedoms. Don’t allow their sacrifices to have been in vain.
BRENDA BESTLER
Axton, Va.
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