Obamacare has become a threat to charitable
organizations. The Little Sisters of the
Poor may have to close their operations in the United States because the federal
health care law violates the tenets of their religious beliefs. The Daily Caller reported the following:
“[I]t
could be a serious threat to our mission in the U.S.,” Constance told TheDC,
“because we would never be able to afford to pay the fines involved. We have
difficulty making ends meet just on a regular basis; we have no extra funding
that would cover these fines.”
The
crux of the matter is a religious exemption that the federal government is
expected to make available to Catholic churches, but not to other Catholic
institutions.
That’s
because unlike Catholic parishes and dioceses, the church’s many affiliated
schools, charities, religious orders and hospitals
don’t discriminate in their hiring or service, often employing staff — and
serving people in need — who come from other Christian denominations or from
other faiths entirely.
“We
are not exempt from the [Obamacare] mandate because we neither serve nor employ
a predominantly Catholic population,” Constance added. ”We hire employees and
serve/house the elderly regardless of race and religion, so that makes us
ineligible for the exemption being granted churches.”
Those
employees, she said, number in the thousands.
The
United States will rank amongst other countries like China who’ve kicked the
Sisters out. But the wards of this
beneficent organization can take succor knowing that the Democrats have
promised a utopia on earth. They will provide
for all your needs. According to the statist,
we have no need for Jesus or private charities.
We have a new Messiah. His name is
Barack Hussein Obama.
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/19/obamacare-could-drive-little-sisters-of-the-poor-out-of-the-us/#ixzz2FYrLvSth
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