Stop Obama

Stop Obama's HHS Mandate

Outline

1. What is Liberty?

2. How does the Obama intrusion inhibit religious liberty?

3. What did Religious Liberty mean to the Founders?

4. How Are Catholic ideas of Liberty compatible with the Founders?

5. If Americans and Catholics agree on Liberty why are so many confused with the difference between a Democracy vs. a Republic?

6. How do the elites, or the oligarchs who run our country today govern?

Introduction

1. What is Liberty?

Let me begin by defining what I mean by Liberty.

Liberty:

1.

a. The condition of being free from restriction or control.

b. The right and power to act, believe, or express oneself in a manner of one's own choosing.

c. The condition of being physically and legally free from confinement, servitude, or forced labor.

2. Freedom from unjust or undue governmental control.

3. A right or immunity to engage in certain actions without control or interference.

2. How does the Obama intrusion inhibit religious liberty?

Religious Liberty: ObamaTax's (ObamaCare) First Casualty

Summary of the issues

Cf. http://standupforreligiousfreedom.com/docs/HHSMandateFactSheet.pdf

Should the Federal government define what religion is and how it should operate? Why or why not?

At St. Brendan Church in San Francisco, the Rev. Michael Quinn stated the church's opposition to the contraceptive rules as: "I believe this is our Rosa Parks moment."

Cf. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/masses-across-country-catholic-priests-decry-obamas-assault-religious-liberty_626727.html

3. What did Religious Liberty mean to the Founders?

On what basis are individuals free to choose, and freely join a government? What pre-dated, theoretically and chronologically, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution?

The 1620 Mayflower Compact expressed the ideals of America: what Ronald Reagan described as a shining city on a hill.

The Mayflower Compact - Drive Thru History, 2:06

Cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbjWqsC0Lpk

Of the 196 words in the agreement, God is stated four times and Christian once.

4. How Are Catholic ideas of Liberty compatible with the Founders?

For American Roman Catholics our Liberty, or freedom, is understood as a gift from God.

Locke deserves repetition to understand his point.

What do people gain when they agree to give up some of their freedoms to be bound by the laws of society?

Individuals give up a portion of their freedom with the intention of better preserving themselves, their liberty, and property.

Locke concludes that:

"The supreme power of any commonwealth is bound by laws to employ the force of the community domestically or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries, and secure the community from inroads and invasion" (IX, Sec. 131).

According to the Declaration of Independence, what is the purpose of government?

The Catholic Bishops’ web site provides a recap of some of the profound statements about personal expression that were made by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

5. If Americans and Catholics agree on Liberty why are so many confused with the difference between a Democracy vs. a Republic?

What is the difference between a democracy and a republic?

How are we to understand the political spectrum?

Into this political spectrum, where would you place the TEA Party? Obama?

Finally, who is the extremist?

What is a democracy?

What is the flaw in democracy?

What does the word Republic mean?

6. How do the elites, or the oligarchs who run our country today govern?

The progressive ideology of governing Americans is an oligarchy. Oligarchy derives from the Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning "a few", and ἄρχω (archo), meaning "to rule or to command").

Robert Michels, a German sociologist, believed that any political system eventually evolves into an oligarchy. He called this the "iron law of oligarchy."

Summary and Conclusion

1. What is Liberty?

2. How does the Obama intrusion inhibit religious liberty?

3. What did Religious Liberty mean to the Founders?

4. How Are Catholic ideas of Liberty compatible with the Founders?

5. If Americans and Catholics agree on Liberty why are so many confused with the difference between a Democracy vs. a Republic?

6. How do the elites, or the oligarchs who run our country today govern?

Consider an exchange between Congressman Gowdy Who Grills Roman Catholic Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius on the HHS Mandate on 26 April 2012, 5:15

Comments, questions, reactions?

A TEA Party member, or Obama?

According to Locke, what do people gain when they agree to give up their liberty and be bound by the laws of society?

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Should the Federal government define what religion is and how it should operate? Why or why not?

2. How does the Obama intrusion inhibit religious liberty?

Religious Liberty: ObamaTax's (ObamaCare) First Casualty

Summary of the issues

Cf. http://standupforreligiousfreedom.com/docs/HHSMandateFactSheet.pdf

Should the Federal government define what religion is and how it should operate? Why or why not?

http://youtu.be/x6PutWIZwpU 6:17

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/22/morning-bell-religious-liberty-under-attack/

How to: the idea of religious liberty

G. Mick Smith, PhD

This presentation is not paid for nor produced by the Roman Catholic Church; I am solely responsible for the contents.