Little Sisters Beg Masonic Courts for Contraception Exemption: RFRA Capitulation
The EWTN News portal (Catholic News Agency) reports on the latest chapter in the Little Sisters of the Poor’s fifteen-year legal odyssey before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The conciliar sect’s media apparatus frames this as a heroic defense of “religious freedom” against the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act. The Little Sisters, represented by the Becket Fund, argue that federal exemptions protecting objectors are a legitimate “middle ground” mandated by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The attorneys general of Pennsylvania and New Jersey counter that these exemptions are “arbitrary and capricious,” exceeding RFRA’s scope. The Department of Justice, under the current administration, supports the exemptions. Mother Loraine Marie Maguire insists the lawsuit threatens their “God-given mission” to serve the elderly poor. This entire spectacle is a grotesque theater of capitulation: a post-conciliar religious order begging a Masonic judiciary for a revocable license to avoid formal cooperation with intrinsic evil, thereby legitimizing the very secularist order that claims the right to define the limits of divine law.