Friday, March 23, 2012, Richard Thompson, President of the Thomas More Law Center addressed an estimated 1000 who gathered for the ‘Stand Up For Religious Freedom‘ rally held in Detroit. The Rally took place in front of the McNamara Federal Building in downtown Detroit to protest the Obama administration’s HHS mandate. Mr. Thompson was one of nine speakers who addressed the crowd. He drew a roar of applause as he told the crowd,
“Christians are born for combat”. Christ said ‘I did not come to bring peace, but a sword‘”.
Thompson continued,
“When Christ saw the money changers in the Temple, he did not keep quiet in the presence of this wrong to keep the peace. He broke the peace by driving them out. He armed himself with a scourge of cords and drove them out. Peace is not our goal. Righteousness is. It is our duty to resist.”
See the articles in the Detroit Free Press and USA Today about the event.
The Detroit rally was emceed by Dr. Monica Miller, who co-founded Citizens for a Pro-life Society. Religious leaders and other public figures
spoke out strongly against the HHS Mandate. Holding signs reading “Stand Up for Religious Freedom” and “Stop the HHS Mandate,” participants offered hymns and prayers for our nation.
Peaceful rallies, organized by the Pro-Life Action League and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society drew more than 50,000 participants from a broad cross-section of America. The rallies were staged to oppose the new mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that requires all employers provide free contraceptives, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs through their health plans, even in violation of their consciences.
This week the United States Supreme Court takes up the Obamacare case in a rare three days of hearings. Two years ago, on March 23, 2010 the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) filed the first lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare. In 2011, TMLC was also the first to petition the Supreme Court to hear the case.