Big Brother vs. The Little Sisters; Obama Administration Takes Nuns to Supreme Court

By Justin Stakes

by Dr. John Sparks

Grove City, PA -(AmmoLand.com)- The Obama administration’s lack of understanding of the spiritual depth and commitment of private religious charities is shocking.

The callousness of the federal effort to compel a noble Catholic religious order—the Little Sisters of the Poor—to forsake its faith commitments shows the depth of the intolerance of the behemoth secular state under President Obama.

The story is one of courageousness on the part of the nuns of this religious order. Founded in France in 1839, the Little Sisters of the Poor has spread to many other countries, including the United States, with the charitable goal of giving aid and comfort to the poor. The Sisters take the normal vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, but also add hospitality, which they extend to some of the “least of those in our midst.”

In March, the nuns will continue their long battle against the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its head, Sylvia Burwell, when the Sisters and their lawyers come before the …Read the Rest

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