Chuck Colson joins a Roman Catholic and a Jew to protest the new healthcare rule requiring religious groups to fund contraceptives, surgical sterilization, and abortion. Their article appears in The Wall Street Journal, and they write:
Instead of encouraging the different faith communities to continue their vital work for the good of all, the Obama administration is forcing them to make a choice: serving God and their neighbors according to the dictates of their respective faiths—or bending the knee to the dictates of the state…
At this critical moment, Americans of every faith, as guardians of their own freedom, must, in the words of the First Amendment, “petition the government for the redress of grievances.” That’s why over the past two years more than 500,000 people have signed the “Manhattan Declaration” in defense of religious liberty. They believe, as do we, that under no circumstances should people of faith violate their consciences and discard their most cherished religious beliefs in order to comply with a gravely unjust law.
That’s something that this Catholic, this Protestant and this Jew are in perfect agreement about.
Read the rest here.
