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Posted: 11:08 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012
Members of Congress are butting heads again. This time, because of President Barrack Obama's policy to require religious-affiliated groups to cover contraception in their health care plan for employees. Some Republicans say it's an attack on religious freedom while some Democrats say women deserve the medicine.
Officials at the Holy Spirit Friary at Franciscan University are not pleased.
"We see this as very coercive, that it is forcing not only Catholics, but people of all religious faiths, to compromise their deepest help religious beliefs and using the coercive force of government to do so," said University President Fr. Terence Henry.
Henry said this is a huge overreach by the government and wrote in the school's paper to inform his students what is going on. If no changes are made, he said the school will not obey the law.
"We have drawn a line in the sand, and we will not cooperate with intrinsic moral evil, so whatever price we must pay, we will pay it," Henry said.
Those who are for the bill say cost may be an issue for some women and that they, too, have a right to the contraception. Henry says this isn't about that.
"People are free to do what they wish, but they cannot coerce Franciscan University or other religious groups to cooperate," said Henry.
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