{"id":14268,"date":"2013-07-10T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=14268"},"modified":"2013-07-10T12:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:33:14","slug":"so-what-is-the-interest-rate-on-30-pieces-of-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2013\/07\/so-what-is-the-interest-rate-on-30-pieces-of-silver\/","title":{"rendered":"So what is the interest rate on 30 pieces of silver?"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Days after the U.S. bishops indicated the HHS contraception mandate remains unacceptable, the Catholic Health Association has approved the government\u2019s accommodation. (source)<\/a><\/p>\n

In other news apparently the sun rose today and is expected to set tonight.<\/p>\n

Really did anybody expect any other outcome? The Obama administration barks and the CHA replies \u201cThank you sir can I have another.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCHA had two principal concerns. The first was the four-part definition of what constituted a \u2018religious employer.\u2019 That concern has been eliminated,\u201d Sister Carol Keehan, president of CHA, announced in a July 8 memo to members of the organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So a religious exemption that does not apply to for example EWTN or the Little Sister of the Poor is one where all concerns are eliminated.<\/p>\n

All concerns are eliminated a position apparently no U.S. Bishops hold and is still deemed a threat to religious liberty across a swath of religious leaders here.<\/p>\n

Acknowledging they don\u2019t all agree on religious teachings about contraception, they are united against government requiring any faith or its followers to violate those teachings.<\/p>\n

More than 100 national religious leaders and scholars released their letter last Tuesday titled \u201cStanding Together for Religious Freedom<\/a>,\u201d calling on the Obama administration and Congress to respect conscience rights and religious freedom. (source)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This letter in part said:<\/p>\n

Through its contraceptive coverage mandate, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) continues to breach universal principles affirmed and protected by the U.S. Constitution and other federal laws. While the mandate is a specific offense, it represents a greater fundamental breach of conscience by the federal government. Very simply, HHS is forcing Citizen A, against his or her moral convictions, to purchase a product for Citizen B. The HHS policy is coercive and puts the administration in the position of defining\u2013or casting aside\u2013religious doctrine. This should trouble every American. (source)<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the meantime as of last week:<\/p>\n

Sister Carol Keehan is a member of the Finance Council for the Archdiocese of Washington. Look at the 6th page of this pdf<\/a>. Why, oh why, was she not unceremoniously ejected from that post after she wrecked so much havoc on this nation? By the way – the directory was updated last week so this list is not obsolete.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Days after the U.S. bishops indicated the HHS contraception mandate remains unacceptable, the Catholic Health Association has approved the government\u2019s accommodation. (source) In other news apparently the sun…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14269,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14268\/revisions\/14269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}