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Senator Casey’s lukewarm reply is below.  My response to his response is this:

Senator Casey - First of all, thank you for your thoughtful reply to my letter to you about the unconstitutional HHS mandate that employers and/or insurers should be compelled to pay for contraception or abortifacients. As a Catholic and an employer of 35 people with families, please know that after reviewing the issue and praying on it - I support my church leaders and I cannot and will not comply…

Friends:

It is not often that I find it necessary to write to you about pressing public issues.  Today is different.  I am not sure if you have heard of this or not, but the US Catholic Bishops are taking a very strong stand against the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services rules related to Obama Care.  Specifically, this past week HHS announced that all health care plans offered in the USA will be required to provide “free” coverage for abortion,…

30 Jan 2012:

Support Respect for Rights of Conscience Act

As the owner of a company that employs 35 people, and as a Catholic, HHS's reaffirmation that virtually all private health care plans must cover sterilization, abortifacients, and contraception, means that our government is purposely putting me in the position of having to choose between doing something I know to be wrong and providing healthcare coverage for my employees.

No government should ever have the…

February 11, 2012

Most Rev. Mark L. Bartchak

Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown

927 S. Logan Boulevard

Hollidaysburg, PA 16648

Dear Bishop Bartchak,

I write to you today, a few short hours after President Obama announced his decision to make an “accommodation” to religiously-affiliated institutions, for three reasons: 

First, to express my gratitude to you and…