Have irresponsible sex. It's the Christian thing to do.
Wheaton college in Wheaton, Illinois is a Christian liberal arts college. Right now their
website is "currently down." That's probably because they just decided to end the health care plans for roughly a quarter of their 3,000 graduate and
undergraduate students.
On July 10, the Christian liberal arts college announced to the campus community that it will no longer provide health coverage for roughly a quarter of its 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The decision won’t affect health care insurance for the school’s faculty and staff.
Student development vice president Paul Chelsen told Wheaton students last week during an information session that the school will provide hardship funding for some students losing insurance. He said the school is trying to protect a lawsuit it has against the Department of Health and Human Services.
So it only took them two weeks to realize that they might have to multiply some loaves of bread after taking away a quarter of the bread? The reason for this sudden un-Christian-like act?
Birth control and Obamacare and sex!
"What has brought us here is about student health insurance, but it's bigger than student health insurance," Chelsen said, according to a recording of the session obtained by the Tribune. "What really breaks my heart is that there are real people that are affected by our decision. But if we don't win this case, the implications down the road in terms of what the government will tell us what we can and cannot do will be potentially more significant.
"I acknowledge that students have been hurt by this decision and I regret that," he added.
I suspect that he doesn't regret it too much since this is a political decision and not really one of necessity.
When the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Wheaton's request earlier this month for a preliminary injunction while its lawsuit is pending, it hastened the college's decision to drop the students' health care coverage.
"When Wheaton College tells us that it is being 'forced' to allow 'use' of its health plans to cover emergency contraceptives, it is wrong," Judge Richard Posner wrote in the opinion. Posner wrote that he didn't see any reason why Wheaton couldn't abide by the compromise plan while the case moved through the court system. "This is hardly a burdensome requirement," Posner wrote.
Clearly, officials at Wheaton don't agree. And in their defense, colleges aren't required to offer health insurance, that was just one of the reasons to go to Wheaton college. However, fighting Obamacare for "moral reasons" will up this tax-exempt organization's evangelical profile.