Religious Freedom Rally - Keep the Momentum

Friday March 23 at noon, thousands of people gathered at over 140 locations across the country for the Stand Up for Religious Freedom rallies in opposition to the HHS mandate. I took in the beautiful ocean view as we were about to start our rally in San Diego. Once the rally began, I delivered the invocation prayer and then shared how this threat on religious liberty will affect the future generations if we do not take action. A number of energetic and inspirational speakers, including our new coadjutor Bishop Flores, rallied over 2,000 attendees.

The Stand Up for Religious Liberty Rallies on March 23 was a day to gather the troops to educate and activate in the beginning of the fight to defend religious liberties and stop the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate of free birth control, sterilization, and abortifacients. However, this is not all we can do. A rally builds morale, inspires, organizes, strengthens, and more. This is just the beginning of taking action against the attack on religious liberties. If we adapt to this mandate it will be a slippery slope for it will affect how we practice religion in the future. Which is why we will not adapt to this injustice. We will oppose it!.

Here is a brief sound bite of Dr. Jim Garlow of Skyline Church Rancho San Diego speaking at the San Diego rally:

This is the beginning of a time when WE will stand together, for the church is the conscience of the government, and the people of the Church make up the Church. We are the living body of Christ. Remember the words of Saint Ignatius, "Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.” We will do this together!

Action Items:

• Know the talking points and get talking!
• Email congress
• Pray
• Sign the Petition
• Share this blog

For the Dignity of the Born and Unborn, 

Timmerie

Religious Freedom Rallies

On March 23 at noon, in over 110 cities across America, ‘Stand Up for Religious Freedom’ rallies will be held to stop the Health and Human Services (HHS) Mandate which requires employers to provide free contraception, sterilization, and abortion inducing drugs. This mandate violates the conscience’s of millions of Americans and is a blatant attack on our constitutional right to religious liberty.

President Obama’s administration is confining the practice of faith to within the four walls of churches. You should not stand by idle while this is done. Too many people are silent and believe that people of faith are the minority, but this is not the truth. Apathy will do nothing and good men must say something!

Media and abortion advocates are attacking the Catholic church at its core. They have split us before on the abortion issue and we must not allow them to do it again. Our opponents are scared of the Catholic church. They should be because truth and love are on our side!

We must and will be united as one nation under God!

Please join your local religious freedom rally or host one of you own. More details can be found at StandUpForReligiousRreedom.com.

I will be giving the invocation speech at the San Diego ‘Stand Up for Religious Freedom’ rally. Details at San Diego for Religious Freedom.

For the Dignity of the Born and Unborn,

Timmerie

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Action: Defend Religious Liberty

Take action today to defend religious liberty and stop abortion pills and contraception from being covered through mandated insurance policies with no copay. We will not allow religious liberties to violated by giving free birth control and abortion pills!

Read my original blog, if you haven't already, giving more detail on the issue. It's very important we are all educated on the issue at hand: 'Religious Freedom and America Consciences'

Take Action:

1. Sign the Petition by ACLJ to Reverse President Obama's Forced Abortion Pill Coverage for Religious Institutions
2. Pass this on for others to read and take action
3. Pray

For the Dignity of the Born and Unborn,

Timmerie

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Religious Freedom and America Consciences

Challenge to every American Citizens Conscience . . . YOU need to know!

On January 20, 2012 Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), instituted a ruling requiring every insurance policy to cover the costs of contraception, abortion inducing drugs, and sterilization. If the ruling is not reversed, it will go into effect late this summer!

This will require religious institutions, with only a small exception for churches, against their moral and ethical beliefs, to provide insurance plans paying for these services. American citizens will be paying for these services through their insurance, and they will have NO choice.

Please watch the below video by Bishop Slattery of the diocese of Tulsa, OK where he explains the appalling threat to not only every Americana's conscience but to religious freedoms:

A few things I would like to emphasize from Bishop Slattery’s statement:

• As an American you have a a fundamental right to Religious Liberty
• This is a violation of your First Amendment Right of Religious Liberty
• Businesses and institutions will be forced to provide this insurance
• These services are intrinsically evil
• The Catholic Church has always complied with the law, however, this is a law we cannot and will not comply with
• The right to free exercise of religion ranks first in the bill of rights

Bishops and Cardinals across the United States have joined together in guiding the Catholic Church in a firm position that opposes this mandate, which violates your right to Religious liberty by requiring all institutions and people of faith to violate their consciences by requiring them to provide and pay for abortion inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization.

It is not possible for me to stress how important it is for every person to be aware of what is happening and what is at stake here. This decision will not be reversed if you do not become informed and vehemently stand against it. We will lose the most important of liberties if you are silent. Catholic, Evangelical, and secular alike should agree that this is a blatant violation of the rights of the American people.

6 things you should know about the HHS decision

Take Action:

1. Send a pre-written email to congress: http://www.nchla.org/actiondisplay.asp?ID=292
2. Educate yourself and others on the issue by sharing this article
3. Pray
4. Don’t stop praying or taking action

So tell me, why are you against this HHS mandate?

For the Dignity of the Born and Unborn,

Timmerie

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Take Action Today to Stop the Birth Control Mandate

Friday September 30 is the last day to submit comments to Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding the Birth Control Mandate they set into place in August. This mandate will cover birth control, surgical sterilization, and abortifacients in all private heathcare plans.

Under this mandate taxpayers will fund Birth Control, Abortifacients (a drug or agent that causes abortion), and surgical sterilization? While you’ll be providing these free services for millions of Americana's to take advantage of at any time, women will not have to pay a dime to be sterilized, chemically abort their children, or access birth control.

Despite religious or moral beliefs you’re paying for it, and patients do not even have a co-pay for these services. (Read my article about the irony of this situation).

Here are a few things you should know which the National Committee for a Human Life Amendment (NCHLA) pointed out in their recent action alert:

• The statement that these services “do not include abortifacient drugs” is misleading. The FDA-approved "emergency contraception" (EC) drugs covered by this mandate can work by interfering with implantation. Also, the drug the FDA most recently approved for EC, "Ella,” a close analogue to the abortion drug RU-486, has been shown in animal tests to cause abortion. Thus, the mandate includes drugs that may cause an abortion both before and after implantation. 

• A religious exemption to the mandate is not only extremely narrow but unprecedented in federal law. Plans offered by a great many religious organizations, including Catholic colleges and universities as well as hospitals and charitable institutions that serve the general public, would be ineligible under the exemption. Individuals and health insurance companies do not qualify at all. 

Please defend the consciences of millions of Americans who do not support the tax payer funding of abortifacients, contraception, and sterilization. (Learn a little about the Catholic Church’s position on these issues) This will only take a few minutes:

1. Sign the petition to President Obama’s Administration and Secretary Sebelius to stop the birth control mandate.
2. Health and Human Services is accepting comments on the issue at hand. Please send an email through NCHLA’s action center in opposition to this mandate.
3. Post the link to this article: http://www.timmerie.com/2011/09/action-alert-stop-birth-control-mandate.html on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites so that others can take action as well. 

For the Dignity of the born and unborn,

Timmerie Millington

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Irony of the Birth Control Mandate -- Take Action

I was sitting in urgent care earlier today and I couldn't get over the fact that the woman in front of me was 19 weeks pregnant and had to pay a $15 co-pay in order to see a doctor after she fell, couldn't walk, and was having severe back and stomach pain. While in contrast, August 1st Health and Human Services (HHS) mandated that private health plans will cover "preventative services": contraceptives, sterilization, and abortifacients with NO co-pay or out of pocket expenses for these services.


Now, I see nothing wrong with co-pays. But I find it ridiculous that a woman wouldn't have to pay a dime to be sterilized, chemically abort her child, or prevent her body from naturally beginning human life while a woman who is pregnant, and severely hurt, has to pay to even get in the door at urgent care.


Don't let your tax dollars pay for this birth control mandate. Defend the consciences of millions of Americans who do not want to pay for birth control with their tax dollars. Take three quick and easy actions:

1. Sign the petition to President Obama’s Administration and Secretary Sebelius to stop the birth control mandate.
2. Health and Human Services is accepting comments on the issue at hand. Please send an email through NCHLA’s action center in opposition to this mandate.
3. Post the link to this article: http://www.timmerie.com/2011/09/action-alert-stop-birth-control-mandate.html on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites so that others can take action as well. 

Learn more about the birth control mandate my blog: 

'Action Alert: Stop the Birth Control Mandate'

For the Dignity of the born and unborn,

Timmerie Millington

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Action Alert: Stop the Birth Control Mandate

On August 3, 2011 the Department of Health and Human Services decided to mandate coverage of birth control, surgical sterilization, and abortifacients in all private heathcare plans.

Are you a tax payer? Do you support Birth Control, Abortifacients (a drug or agent that causes abortion), and surgical sterilization? Well you’ll be providing these services for millions of Americana's to take advantage of at any time. Despite religious or moral beliefs you’re paying for it, and patients do not even have a co-pay for these services.


 Church Teaching:

Contraception and Sterilization:
Catechism of the Catholic Church: "[E]very action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible is intrinsically evil" (CCC 2370).

"Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means . . . for example, direct sterilization or contraception" (CCC 2399).

Abortifacient:
Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 2271:

Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.75
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.76

Now please take a few moments to defend the consciences of millions of Americans who do not support abortifaceints, contraception, and sterilization. It will only take a few minutes:

1. Sign the petition to President Obama’s Administration and Secretary Sebelius to stop the birth control mandate.
2. Health and Human Services is accepting comments on the issue at hand. Please send an email through NCHLA’s action center in opposition to this mandate.
3. Post the link to this article: http://www.timmerie.com/2011/09/action-alert-stop-birth-control-mandate.html on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites so that others can take action as well. 

For the Dignity of the born and unborn,

Timmerie Millington

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