Kathleen Sebelius, Religious Liberty, and Constitutional Law

Hm.  Well, that's quite interesting.  Excerpts:

...HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is a continuing insult to the beliefs of traditional Catholics. Testifying at a recent House hearing, Sebelius admitted that she had consulted no constitutional precedents and asked for no legal advice from the Justice Department while making her decision on the contraceptive mandate. “Congressman,” she explained, “I’m not a lawyer and I don’t pretend to understand the nuances of the constitutional balancing tests.”
The only thing worse than indifference to religious liberty is casual, ignorant indifference to religious liberty...

Is it really part of Obama’s battleground-state strategy to disassemble Franklin Roosevelt’s Democratic coalition in the middle of a tight reelection campaign? Did he think traditional Catholics would depart quietly?

Well, they haven’t. Forty-three Catholic institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, Catholic University and the archdioceses of New York and Washington, filed suit Monday in federal court to overturn the mandate. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called all Catholics to 14 days of “prayer, study, catechesis and public action” on religious liberty from June 21 to the Fourth of July. This is smack in the middle of the presidential season. It also, not coincidentally, starts around the Feast of St. Thomas More, who said, “I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.”