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Engaging Weekend: White House Says Happy Mother’s Day by Celebrating Abortion Mandate, FDA Says Abortion Drug Ok for Teens but Not Caffeine, Christian Printer Says No to Homosexual Magazine

May 13, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

Engaging Weekend is a collection of articles you might have missed over the weekend. But we thought they were important and wanted to make sure you had a chance to read them.

White House Celebrates Mother’s Day Promoting HHS Abortion Mandate

Nothing says “Happy Mother’s Day” like the celebration of…abortion? Sure it might sound insane to most sane human beings, but that didn’t stop the White House from tweeting about the hated HHS mandate. A recent article reports: “The White House found a way to celebrate Mother’s Day early, by sending out a series of tweets today promoting Obamacare. The official White House Twitter account specifically touting the HHS abortion mandate that compels religious groups to pay for birth control and drugs that may cause abortions under their employee health care plans. The mandate is so egregious it has drawn more than 100 lawsuits from religious groups, business, school and others who are not allowed to opt out under the narrow provisions.” Only the Obama administration would find it appropriate to celebrate moms by patting themselves on the back for one of the worst abortion bills in U.S. history. Never mind that they continued to be sued left and right by religious companies offended at the very thought of paying for abortion and abortion services. Maybe Obama and his regime can look for more appropriate ways of celebrating all the women who chose life and rejected the selfish notions of abortion. Click here for original article.

FDA Looks at New Regs for Caffeine Days After OK-ing ‘Plan B’ for Teens [Read more...]

About Nathan Cherry

Nathan Cherry is the chief editor and blogger for the Engage Family Minute blog, the official blog of the FPCWV. He serves also as the Regional Development Coordinator as a liaison to the pastor's of West Virginia. He is a pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-religious freedom conservative. He is also a husband, father, pastor, author, musician, and follower of Jesus Christ.

Filed Under: Engaging Weekend Tagged With: caffeine, Christian, FDA, girls, HHS, homosexual, magazine, mandate, Mother's Day, Obama, Plan B, printer, teens, White House

Religious Freedom Win: Obama admin Withdraws Lawsuit Against Christian Business

May 7, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

A major religious freedom victory took place when the Obama administration abandoned its lawsuit against Tyndale House publishers – the world’s largest publisher of Bibles. Obama had initially sought to force Tyndale to obey the HHS mandate, but has since withdrawn the lawsuit against Tyndale. It could be as the Alliance Defending Freedom has reported, that Obama doesn’t want to try and convince a court that a Bible publisher is not “religious enough” for an exemption. A recent article states:

“In a huge victory for pro-life advocates taking on the controversial HHS mandate, the Obama administration is giving up its effort to force a Bible publisher to obey it…Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing Tyndale House Publishers say the administration is apparently nervous about trying to defend its position that a Bible publisher is not religious enough for a religious exemption to the mandate.” Click here for original article.

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Filed Under: Life Tagged With: abortion, ADF, bible, HHS, insurance, Life, mandate, Obama, Tyndale

Sen. Ted Cruz Warns the HHS Mandate Will Upend Religious Freedom

April 17, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

As the courts continue to side with people of faith against the HHS mandate, Sen. Ted Cruz is sounding the alarm over the danger posed to religious freedom by the mandate. He recently said: ”Is ‘the freedom to worship’ the same as ‘freedom of religion’? No it isn’t. The freedom of religion entails much more than being able to ‘worship;’ it includes being able to live out your faith. And that means to conduct your affairs – for-profit or nonprofit –so as to honor your deepest beliefs. If freedom of religion is reduced to ‘freedom of worship,’ does your right to religion stop when you walk out the front door of your church, temple, or mosque?”

Obama continues to emphasize his commitment to “freedom to worship.” But as Sen. Cruz and others have said, that is very different than religious freedom. Many are seeking to push religion inside the walls of the church and make sure that all religious rights are held captive within those walls. They want all public displays of faith halted permanently. This mandate is just the beginning of attempting to make that happen. Click here for original article.

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Filed Under: Life Tagged With: abortion, freedom, HHS, insurance, Life, mandate, Obama, religious, Ted Cruz, worship

26 Colleges Sue Obama Admin Over HHS Mandate

April 17, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

A recent article explains: “The battle against the HHS mandate continues, as 26 religious colleges have objected to the abortion-pill portion of the mandate. Alliance Defending Freedom has submitted official comments to the Department of Health and Human Services on behalf of 22 Catholic colleges and higher-education programs and four Protestant colleges explaining their objections to the Obama administration’s abortion-pill mandate.”

The Alliance Defending Freedom continues to lead the charge against the pro-abortion HHS mandate by representing colleges and businesses that object based on their religious convictions. The Obama administration continues to try and force people of faith to violate their convictions through complying with this awful mandate. To date the Obama administration has lost nearly 20 court cases involving the HHS mandate and more are following. Hopefully more Protestant colleges and businesses will take a stand with their Catholic counter-parts in letting the Obama administration know just how pro-life we really are. Click here for original article.

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Filed Under: Life Tagged With: abortion, ADF, administration, business, college, convictions, HHS, Life, mandate, Obama, religious, sue

Obama Admin Set to Finalize HHS Mandate

April 11, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

LifeSiteNews.com reports: ”The period for Americans to comment on the proposed regulation – which would force employers to provide contraception, sterilization, and abortifacient drugs to all employees with no co-pay – ended yesterday. The Sunlight Foundation notes that the controversial provision has generated ‘more comments than any other regulatory proposal on any subject government-wide.’ A coalition of supporters, including Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, says its groups delivered nearly 350,000 messages of support for the mandate.”

Now that the period for public comment is over, we can expect the finalized policy to be revealed soon. The HHS mandate remains one of the most unpopular ever passed, and will no doubt continue to be challenged in court. Americans don’t want to be forced to violate their religious beliefs and certainly the 1st Amendment – among others – ensures we should not be forced to violate our convictions. We will continue to oppose this terrible mandate and its life-ending policies. Click here for original article.

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Filed Under: Life Tagged With: abortion, admin, contraception, convictions, finalize, HHS, mandate, Obama, violate

Religious Freedom Victory: Hobby Lobby Granted New Hearing!

April 3, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

ChristianNews.net reports: “The popular craft chain Hobby Lobby has been granted a full rehearing of its case challenging Obamacare’s abortion pill mandate. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals announced on Friday that Hobby Lobby’s appeal will go before the entire court as per the company’s request. Cases are customarily held before a panel of three judges, except in what are called en banc hearings…Judges with the court had previously refused to grant an injunction to Hobby Lobby, stating that the burden of Obamacare’s contraceptive coverage requirement was ‘indirect and attenuated.’”

If Hobby Lobby is given an injunction against ObamaCare it will signal a major religious freedom victory for the Christian-owned craft store. This victory could also set a precedent for other religiously-owned businesses that object to the pro-abortion policies mandated in the HHS mandate. ObamaCare continues to be defeated in nearly every case brought against it in court by those with religious objections. Despite this, Obama refuses to re-write any part of the HHS mandate to accommodate those with religious objections. Click here for original article.

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Filed Under: Life Tagged With: convictions, court, hearing, HHS, Hobby Lobby, insurance, judge, mandate, religious

Engaging Weekend: West Virginia AG Fights for Religious Freedom, Will Tax-Payers Pay for Sex Change Operations, Moms Plan to Protest Victoria’s Secret

April 1, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

Engaging Weekend is a collection of articles from the weekend you might have missed. But we thought they were important and wanted to make sure you had a chance to read them.

Attorneys General Push Obama for Religious Exemption in HHS Mandate

When it comes to ObamaCare, West Virginia hasn’t exactly set a great example of rejecting the horrible legislation. In fact, West Virginia has decided to embrace it and force its citizens to pay for it. This is just another example of our lawmakers supporting big government expansion. But, some good news emerged when it was reported that West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey has joined a letter to the Obama administration asking for greater religious protections against the HHS mandate. A recent article reports: “Twelve attorney generals have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services asking that it expand the very narrow religious exemptions in the HHS mandate that require religious groups and companies to pay for birth control or drugs that may cause abortions…The letter signed by Pruitt cites the Religious Freedom Restoration Act as reason to grant broader exemptions to the federal act, including to all religious-affiliated nonprofits and to certain for-profit companies.” This is very encouraging as religious freedom has been under aggressive attack in recent years and West Virginia lawmakers seems uninterested in protecting our rights from those attacks. We thank AG Morrisey for his willingness to protect the religious freedoms of West Virginians and hope he will continue to stand for freedom. Click here for original article.

Need a sex change operation? Medicare/Medicaid might just pick up the tab in the future [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Engaging Weekend Tagged With: abortion, AG, children, educate, family, girls, HHS, home-school, insurance, mandate, marketing, Morrisey, operation, parents, pay, protect, protest, Romeike, sex change, taxpayers, transsexual, Victoria's Secret

Engaging Weekend: Middle School Student Punished for Wearing Abstinence Shirt, Pro-Life Mobile App Helps Women, Manchin Breaks With Democrats on HHS Mandate

March 25, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

Engaging Weekend is a collection of articles from the weekend you might have missed. But we thought they were important and wanted to make sure you had a chance to read them.

Middle School student wears abstinence t-shirt, school makes her remove it and wear ‘punishment’ t-shirt

A middle school in Florida is under fire after they made a student, Summer Schreiner, remove the pro-abstinence shirt she was wearing and put on a “discipline shirt” instead. A recent article reports: “The shirt actually says on the front ‘Don’t Drink & Park: Accidents Cause Kids’ and then shows a parked car below it. Clearly it’s a tame abstinence message but there’s really no sexual innuendo on it. And then she’s told to remove it and she’s made to wear a shirt the school supplies especially for these instances of ‘dress code violations’ that says ‘Tomorrow I will dress for success.’” I can see why they made her remove it; we can’t have kids promoting abstinence at schools where underage kids are present, that sends a bad message? This is absurdity at the highest level. To think that this shirt is somehow offensive, or violates some policy is ridiculous. I bet if she would have worn some pro-Planned Parenthood shirt that promotes abortion or the LGBT agenda she would have been unbothered. But those abstinence shirts are just too much, they have to go. This is what happens when the government is given oversight of education and parents ignore their responsibility to be engaged in that same education. They promote poor behaviors and actions while punishing character and values. Click here to watch the video or see original article.

New Mobile App Has Amazing Pictures of Unborn Babies, Helps Women [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Engaging Weekend Tagged With: abstinence, amendment, app, baby, begins, help, HHS, insurance, Life, mandate, North Dakota, Obama, personhood, pictures, pro-life, school, Senate, shirt, student, unborn, violate, votes, women

FPCWV Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Religious Freedom, Against the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”)

March 15, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

We want you to know that we are on the front lines defending your religious freedom in West Virginia. To that end, the Family Policy Council of West Virginia (FPCWV) has joined a friend-of-the-court brief to the 4^th Circuit Court of Appeals; along with several other policy councils the Alliance Defending Freedom and Americans United for Life, opposing the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).

The basis for the brief was shared in a post by ADF recently:

“The employer mandate forces religious employers to provide health insurance coverage for their employees under the penalty of crippling fines. The brief supports a challenge to that mandate in Liberty University v. Geithner and concludes that the Obama administration’s related abortion pill mandate ‘draws all of its compulsive power from the employer mandate…and is but a symptom of the illness that is the employer mandate’s broad grant of power to HHS.’ Americans, including those who create and provide jobs, should be free to live according to their faith rather than be forced into surrendering their consciences…ObamaCare demands that Americans choose between two poison pills: either desert your faith to comply with the government, or resist and be punished. The Obama administration’s attacks on faith and employers prove that it doesn’t respect either one.”

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Filed Under: Religious Freedom Tagged With: abortion, ADF, amicus, attacked, AUL, brief, council, freedom, HHS, insurance, Jeremy Dys, mandate, Obama, policy, religious

U.S. Reps Aim to Protect Conscience Rights

March 7, 2013 By Nathan Cherry

While the Obama administration seems bent on taking away the conscience rights of Americans through its awful HHS mandate, some U.S. reps aim to protect those rights. IN an interview with WND.com, Rep. Fleming (R-LA) discussed his recent bill to safeguard the conscience rights of citizens, doctors, nurses, and medical professionals. He said of his bill:

“It applies a longstanding policy of conscience rights to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. It provides doctors, nurses and other health care providers with protection from discrimination for choosing not to participate in an abortion, codifying the Hyde-Weldon Amendment…Third, it enables victims of the HHS mandate and discriminatory health practices to have their case heard in court…The government should not have the right to force you to participate in some type of behavior that is going to conflict with your conscience rights, and if it does or potentially does, you should have the ability to have access to courts, and currently that’s not necessarily the case…” At least someone is seeking to protect the “inalienable” rights of Americans. Click here for original article.