Any paper you pick up or TV show you turn on will talk about the “contraception controversy.”
That’s
how the media and the “reproductive rights” crowd have framed the
Obama Administration’s outrageous demand that religious organizations
violate the tenets of their faith by offering insurance to their
employees that covers abortion-inducing drugs and sterilization.
But
all you ever hear from newsmen or politicians is that this is all about
contraception. And sadly, according to the polls anyway, they’ve been
successful in shaping the argument.
Friends,
this controversy is NOT about contraception. It is about the ability
of the government to limit the free exercise of our religion. This is a
religious liberty question.
I’ve
gone out of my way in conversations with people to straighten them out
on this, and it immediately changes their point of view. What’s really
at stake here is whether the executive branch of the government can
enforce administrative orders that violate the Constitution and trample
upon the Bill of Rights.
If
Christians are to do anything in the public square today, it is to
raise the rallying cry of freedom. Remember freedom is the created
condition of humans made in the image of God, who Himself is free. This
is being taken away from us right under our noses.
You
are one of the 525,000 people who have signed the Manhattan
Declaration. If you and every single signer would explain this issue in
simple terms to your neighbors, we would turn the polls around. This
is a winning issue for us, but only if we do not allow the other side to
frame the debate.
Please, talk to your friends. Visit the Manhattan Declaration website to read more about the issue. We’ve even posted a couple of my BreakPoint commentaries that deal with this.
The
case is simple; it is not about contraception. It is about religious
liberty, the first of all our freedoms. God bless you!
