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In a ruling that many in the religious community see as a threat to their own tax-exempt status, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Catholic Charities, a Catholic Non-Profit that serves the poor and the homeless, is not, fundamentally a religious organization because serving the poor and homeless isn’t a religious act.

Wisconsin’s Labor and Industry Review Commission revoked Catholic Charities’ Tax-Exempt status under the premise that their work, taking care of the poor and the homeless, was “secular work,” revealing the ignorance of religion in general, and Christianity more specifically, and Catholicism specifically.

The lack of understanding of the necessity of doing good works to many faiths, especially Catholicism, by top government officials and the State’s Supreme Court Justices does not instill the citizen with confidence in the efficacy of the law and the courts.

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Excerpt from www.theblaze.com

 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court in March issued a shockingly bad decision in Catholic Charities Bureau v. State of Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission. The court held — I’m not making this up — that Catholic Charities is not operated primarily for religious purposes. How in the world did we get here?

The case speaks volumes about the state of religion, law, and politics today. The ruling highlights the partisan state of modern courts — the Wisconsin Supreme Court flipped to a 4-3 liberal majority after last year’s election, and, of course, the 4-3 decision in this case fell along ideological lines. Judges often speak of a deep commitment to the rule of law that transcends partisanship, but it is hard to read cases like this and take seriously the notion that nothing other than a proper interpretation of the law motivated the four liberal justices.

These charitable acts — known as the corporal works of mercy — are not optional. They are at the heart of Christian religion.

The far-left island nation of Iceland is raising international concerns after it was learned that the country has no Down syndrome adults or children because it has a de facto national policy to murder unborn children that are identified as having Down syndrome.

Iceland appears to be more proud of this fact than ashamed, as can be seen in this response from Ástríður Stefánsdóttir, a medical doctor and a professor in applied ethics at the University of Iceland, who coldly stated, “I’m not sure that our attitude is so different from other countries. It might just be that the decision is taken at another place in the process. Those who take the tests have already made up their mind that they are not going to have a baby with Trisomy 21. So if there is a [high] abortion rate, that’s not strange. Everyone goes into the system. We don’t have many pregnancies where women never have any touch with the medical system – I think I can say the number is zero.”

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(Live Action) — Iceland made international headlines years ago, when it was discovered that there is a nearly 100 percent abortion rate for babies diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome. And as nearly all pregnant women in Iceland undergo prenatal testing, that means Down syndrome is disappearing.

Fast-forward to the present day, and not much has changed – and Icelandic bioethics experts are beginning to get concerned.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently published an article investigating why Iceland has such a sky-high abortion rate; there, just two or three babies with Down syndrome are born each year. This is because approximately 85 percent of pregnant Icelandic women opt for prenatal testing, and when there is a positive result for Down syndrome, abortion is virtually always chosen.