The years have made one fact utterly clear: The State hates Christianity – especially the Catholic variety – above all other things. Christianity is the State’s foremost opponent.
I needn’t recount the reasons for my Gentle Readers. Any system of belief that holds that there is a higher authority than the political would draw the State’s enmity. Christianity doubles down by putting that Authority beyond the State’s reach. And to celebrate human freedom as well! The nerve!
So wherever you find the State, you will find it scheming to do damage to Christianity. The Soviets tried their damnedest to eliminate it completely. I’m sure you know how the Red Chinese treat Christians. And let’s not discuss the North Koreans; it’s too nice a day.
But what of our free and “tolerant” Republic?
BREAKING: In a nationwide ruling against a Trump Administration religious conscience rule, a federal district Court today ruled against the Little Sisters of the Poor. The Court sided with Pennsylvania and New Jersey in their years-long effort to force the Little Sisters of the…
— BECKET (@becketfund) August 13, 2025
Please read the whole thread.
The game here “should” be “obvious.” The absolute sanctity of human life, including that of the unborn child, is fundamental to Christian belief. The Catholic Church is the foremost defender of the right to life in the whole world. If the State can force the Church to yield on that point, it will have made a fatal breakthrough. Think about it: If one crucial tenet of the faith can be compromised for Church-State amity, why would the others be immune? Pretty soon, Church teaching would be hollowed out completely.
The governments of the United States of America would have succeeded where the Communists and totalitarians failed. Quite a feather for the gradualists’ cap, eh?
Of course the Little Sisters of the Poor will appeal. They might win at the Circuit Court level, but it’s even money that the case will go all the way to the top. It’s a case to be watched closely. Defenders of human life should take note – and provide what support they can.
I wonder if the Institute for Justice could be persuaded to get involved?
1 comment:
It is truly sad that it appears to be true that, of all Western religions, the Catholic Church remains the primary stalwart seeking to protect children before birth. In my view in its protesting the execution of murderers it goes too far. However, in that at least it has the wish for repentance leg to stand on. All the others have permitted the ideologies of the sinister wing of politics to weaken their views on the sanctity of human life.
I've warned many times before that it is impossible to understand the enemy to human life unless we recognize that its intelligentsia has a zeal for its religious-like views that seems to surpass that demonstrated by most of the leaders of the Christian or Jewish faiths. Few are willing to see that internal enemy of the West has a religious fervor that is even worse than the jihadis. They don't want us to convert, they want us dead.
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