Our government wants to force church bodies to provide insurance for employees to cover contraception, The pro life position would be against this certainly. These contraceptives would include abortive drugs such as the morning after pill. When considering the mandate of Department of Health and Human services we see this writing from Kierkegaard. Totally different issue but the view is applicable all the same. What if this is held up and tax free exemption status is threatened? Away, if need be, to tax exemption status?
We have constitutional assurances against the institution of religion but we see, alarmingly, more and more that document trodden under foot of controlling government officials. Christ have mercy!
http://steadfastlutherans.org/?p=16878
"If the Church is "free" from the state, it's all good. I can immediately fit in this situation. But if the Church is to be emancipated, then I must ask: By what means, in what way? A religious movement must be served religiously—otherwise it is a sham! Consequently, the emancipation must come about through martyrdom—bloody or bloodless. The price of purchase is the spiritual attitude. But those who wish to emancipate the Church by secular and worldly means (i.e. no martyrdom), they've introduced a conception of tolerance entirely consonant with that of the entire world, where tolerance equals indifference, and that is the most terrible offence against Christianity. [...] the doctrine of the established Church, its organization, are both very good indeed. Oh, but then our lives: believe me, they are indeed wretched."
Dru, Alexander (1938). The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation
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