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The ObamaCare Mandate Against Freedom of Conscience
Flopping Aces ^ | 02-09-12 | Curt

Posted on 02/09/2012 6:49:36 PM PST by Starman417

Senator Coburn recently remarked that the recent order by Obama, ordering all employers to offer health insurance that covers birth control, sterilizations and abortion pills, regardless of any religious objections....is not that big a deal:

“This is blown out of proportion,” he said. “It is an important point in terms of religious liberty, but it’s a consequence of having too big of a government.”

I don't agree that it's blown out of proportion but I do agree on the reasons why no one should be surprised.

This was what ObamaCare was about in the first place. To place every American under the power of the federal government. To rule every aspect of your life. It's just another power grab by the federal government, and this Administration, at the expense of the States and the individual.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare

1 posted on 02/09/2012 6:49:42 PM PST by Starman417
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To: Starman417

“This is blown out of proportion,” he said. “It is an important point in terms of religious liberty, but it’s a consequence of having too big of a government.”

Many on the religious left wanted an expanded role of government here so that everyone would be all nice and taken care of. What they didn’t quite understand is that liberal government is not interested in religion of any kind.


2 posted on 02/09/2012 6:58:27 PM PST by ari-freedom
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To: ari-freedom

Time for the Mooch to force all Muslim schools to serve pork because it is a healthy meat. It’s not about their religion, it’s about the health of the kids-right?


3 posted on 02/09/2012 7:21:25 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: Starman417
This was what ObamaCare was about in the first place. To place every American under the power of the federal government. To rule every aspect of your life. It's just another power grab by the federal government, and this Administration, at the expense of the States and the individual.

Bingo! I have said that since they began to push it and I'm not alone. Its purpose is to destroy liberty and it's a mistake to think it is about anything else.

Whose right is health care? Do you think it's yours?

Congressman Anthony Weiner has said that health care is not a commodity. If it isn't a commodity then do doctors and nurses have rights? Assigning health care the status of a right makes health care workers slaves to that right who must serve it. On what ground could a health care worker refuse to provide their products and services since that would violate the patient's "basic human right to health care."

That is a direct loss of individual rights for health care providers. The collective right of the people to receive health care would supersede the provider's individual right to set fees and hours or to change their occupational status or even decide how to apply their skills and knowledge if taken to its logical extreme. A collective right, by practical definition, is a state right because it is a right that is created and given by the government to those it chooses to give it to. It is not a natural right possessed by each person protected by the Constitution from the government. It is also a collective/state right by virtue of the fact that it would supersede individual rights when the two come into conflict. How else would the government view a right that it created and administers vs. one it has no control over?

Of course it isn't stated in any bill that a patient's right to care supersedes a provider's right to set fees and hours etc, but it doesn't need to. Rights, as always, are adjudicated in the courts. The Health Care Reform bills simply establish the foundation for the courts to rule in favor of the collective right.

Weiner’s view is collectivist, fascist and totalitarian. Collectivist because it has to be described as being a right of the many instead of the one and superior due to that fact. Fascist because ultimately the sole authority for its creation and oversight is from one entity the Federal government. Totalitarian because the Federal government is the enforcer of this collective right as well. State and local jurisdictions will have little say about it.

Congressman Weiner's view is the underlying philosophy of all of the Health Care Reform legislation in the House and Senate. Consider this section in the Senate version of the bill; the setting up of community watch dogs that will monitor citizens for various health parameters. Read pages 382 - 393.

TITLE I—QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS pps 382 - 393

So, even citizens themselves will be subject to Federal regulations on their behavior in order to fulfill the "human right" of universal health care. It isn't the individual's liberty that is being protected by that it is the government's control over its own health care system that is being guarded. How much clearer can it be that these bills abrogate the concept of individual rights? Someone will be checking your lifestyle, according to gov regulations, to be certain you serve the best interests of the "basic human right to health care" ie. "the Public Option."

HCR is not just about rationing care and wealth redistribution. It's about the end of individual rights as the corrosive effects of the new collectivist "basic human right to health care" spreads throughout the legal and political systems like a virus.

I think that the main purpose of Health Care Reform (HCR) is as a direct assault on individual liberties.

Health Care is a Liberty Issue
Conservative Underground - 18 August 2009 - Tim Dunkin

Another Stupid Argument: Heath Care is a Right

Involuntary Medical Servitude

Obama's Authoritarian, Unconstitutional Health Care Proposal

Defining A Right In America

To Americans Who Believe Healthcare is a Right

OBAMA: HEALTH CARE DESTROYING FREE SPEECH

Mandated health insurance threatens freedom, privacy

Bad Laws and Unintended Consequences, part 1.

Obamacare Rips Doctor-Patient Relationship Apart

Second Bill of Rights aka FDR's economic bill of rights
(An early attempt to embed collective rights into American politics and society.)


4 posted on 02/09/2012 7:23:31 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Starman417
This Administration cleverly used a Trojan Horse called "health care reform," and now "women's health," in its attempt to blatantly attack the First Amendment's specific protection for the free exercise of religious belief.

Now, in the case of the prohibition on Chaplains, they are attacking another prong of that Amendment--freedom of speech.

Enough already! During the Revolutionary Period, the pulpit in America was resounding with the ideas of liberty, motivating "the People" to assert their Creator-endowed rights, and to reject the ideas of tyranny, no matter how they were cloaked.

They have been late to the battle of late, but now, they have been awakened.

In this particular case, the assault has come on just one doctrinal belief of one major faith group. Rest assured, though, that people of faith from all sects will be able to discern that if the assault can be framed as "women's health and contraception" today, it can be against any number of deeply-held beliefs and practices tomorrow.

James Madison declared: "Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant—they have been cheated; asleep—they have been surprised; divided—the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? ... the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government, they should watch over it ... It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free."

5 posted on 02/09/2012 7:46:57 PM PST by loveliberty2
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When I caught the almost news on TV the other day, I spotted DNC Chair Thing Debbie Syphilis-Test trying to defend the mandatory requirements of abortion pills, birth control, etc. for religious institutions as a health issue. You got to be kidding. If you want birth control, abortion pills, etc. you should go buy them yourself, no plan should be required to provide them. Not to be outdone, the dragged the MSM news dyke Rachael Maddow out to discuss the mandate. Rachael Maddow the dyke queer? What on earth would he/she/it know about anything to do with womens birth control, abortion, etc. The MSM has reached a new low, first Debbie Syphlis-Test and then Rachael the dyke!


6 posted on 02/09/2012 7:59:42 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Man you have it down pat. You are completely correct.

It is surprising to hear Senator Coburn admit what Onbamacare was all about though.

This was what ObamaCare was about in the first place. To place every American under the power of the federal government. To rule every aspect of your life. It’s just another power grab by the federal government, and this Administration, at the expense of the States and the individual.

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Just wait until you see the list of activities that Obamacare will not pay for such as motorcycling, Horseback riding, skydiving, fat people, smokers. ——It’s coming folks


7 posted on 02/09/2012 8:32:28 PM PST by Venturer
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