Nancy Pelosi wants to keep religion within the walls of a church. John Stonestreet at Breakpoint writes:
CNS News broke the story late last month: At a recent press conference held to discuss the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (a.k.a., “Obamacare”), a reporter asked former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a critical question:
“One of the services that health care plans have to offer free of charge [under the HHS mandate] are sterilizations… do you agree with the federal government mandating—”
At this point, Congresswoman Pelosi cut the reporter off and responded, “You know what, I told you before, let’s go to church and talk about our religion. Right here we’re talking about public policy as it affects women…”
Stonestreet responds:[my emphasis]
“Let’s go to church and talk about our religion,” Congresswoman Pelosi said. The message is clear: If you’re concerned about the well-being of young women, and aren’t sure that free sterilization without parental consent is a good idea, you’re just trying to shoehorn your religion into the public debate, where it doesn’t belong. Go back to church and be quiet.
As Chuck Colson warned two years ago, and as we’ve been pointing out ever since, the current administration has been advancing an entirely new definition of religious liberty—one which must bow to any perceived sexual freedoms and which must remain within the walls of our church buildings.
As Matthew Lee Anderson of MereOrthodoxy.com points out in our interview this weekend on BreakPoint This Week, it’s more than religious freedom being pushed out of the public square. When it’s pushed out, secular institutions, including government, become increasingly hostile towards it.
Our freedom to express and exercise our religion in the public square is quickly being sterilized—without our consent.