Jim Martin, “Over 200 years of religious liberty down the drain with one arrogant President.”

(Alexandria, Virginia) – The 60 Plus Association today voiced its support for a federal lawsuit filed today by the University of Notre Dame’s — one of 12 total lawsuits encompassing 43 religious organizations — challenging the constitutionality of the Health and Human Services’ (HHS) mandate ordering religious organizations to provide contraceptive and other services that run counter to the Catholic faith and infringe upon 1st Amendment religious freedoms.

Said 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin, “President Obama is not content just to destroy our health care system and wreak havoc on our country’s fiscal house with the insufferable Obamacare legislation, now he is mowing down over 200 years of religious liberty and our God-given right of freedom to worship, which is at the very heart of why this nation was founded.  In trampling both our Constitution and our religious liberties, Obama has done with one piece of legislation something Monarchs like Henry VIII and George III could not do with all of their armies.

“Church leaders are absolutely correct when they say this mandate amounts to an unnecessary and unprecedented attack on our nation’s cherished tradition of religious liberty.  Asking people to choose between their government and their God is a corruption of the highest order.

“The HHS proves that with every government benefit comes government control, with the end result that all social institutions are leveled in the end to look, perform and behave like the government bureaucracy that controls them.  The people don’t want Obamacare, they understand that there are far more burdens than benefits, with the worst burden of all being forced to promote and endorse ideas that are incompatible with one’s conscience.

“The end of religious liberty and freedom of conscience is a precursor to the end of ALL liberty.  The 7.2 million senior supporters of the 60 Plus Association stand with church leaders who are defending their right to exercise their freedom of religion, and in doing so, protecting everybody else’s.”

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