First, they will come for the Catholics

What to expect if the Obama administration is re-elected:

• Catholic institutions will have to pay for their employees’ birth control or cease to offer health insurance. This means that thousands of such enterprises (colleges, schools, publishers, broadcasters) will likely have to close.
• Medical institutions will suffer the worst. Catholic hospitals will be taken over by secular corporations or the government. They will then perform abortions, sterilizations, and sex change operations—and weigh the cost of treating patients against their “quality of life.”
• Dying Catholics in those hospitals will have less ready access to priests. So many will be deprived of the last sacraments.
• Prolife nurses will have fewer places where they can work—and the “conscience” clause that protects women from assisting at such procedures will surely be next on the ever-expanding agenda of an intolerant, growing government.
• Prolife doctors will have fewer hospitals where they can serve as residents—imperiling their careers if they refuse to take part in abortions.

If the Feds get away with this, hundreds of subsequent dominos will fall—too many to mention. We will soon end up like Catholics in England, whose Catholic adoption agencies had to shut down for flouting mandated gay adoption. How long will it be till churches of any kind that refuse to hold gay “weddings” are sued and regulated into compliance? (That’s starting to happen in the U.K.) Or until schools that defend traditional marriage are labeled “hate academies” and deprived first of their tax exemptions, and then of their accreditation?

“Should any institution, anywhere in society, be allowed to resist public opinion? Or should the federal government step in and make it conform? Do you want to live in a free, diverse America, or one where the state co-opts and crushes civil society, and steam-rollers over the consciences of minorities? Is there some issue—any issue—where you disagree with the federal government, the NY Times, or NPR? Well if the Feds get away with doing this, you can kiss your rights goodbye. You’re next, my friend.”

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