The present controversy over the mandatory distribution of contraceptives in the new health care law is a smokescreen by the Obama Administration to take the attention off the economy and his failed policies that have prolonged the recovery. The president taught constitutional law at Columbia University as well as having served as the president of the Harvard Law Review while studying for his law degree there. He knows very well that the mandate is a violation of the separation of church and state.
“Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” was written specifically to keep the government out of the church, not to keep the church out of the government. The government is not a building, but people who are elected to public office that meet in a building to carry out their duties. Neither is the church a building, but people who embrace a faith who worship in a building. In most cases, the same people who worship are the same who serve in government. There is no way that these people can check their faith at the door when entering to serve in government. However, they do not have the authority to impose their religious beliefs upon the nation, nor prohibit others from exercising their rights in practicing their faith.
While the attention is upon the mandate over contraceptives, Obama released his fourth budget in a row that increases our national debt by almost a trillion dollars. Good trick if he gets away with it. He doesn’t fool me.