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Posted on 07/02/2014 10:19:36 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
In spite of having mastered the frequently demanding practice of deceit, once in a while genuine motivation breaks through the left’s façade of compassion and caring. Though not widely recognized, it happened in the Hobby Lobby case decided by the Supreme Court on Monday.
In the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993, Congress provided the option of going to court to anyone who sought religious based exemption from a federal law. In providing this statutory right to religious objectors, Congress wrote that “Government shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability…”
Among other things, Hobby Lobby attorneys argued that imposing massive fines against their client for not providing “abortion drugs” to employees must obviously represent the sort of substantial burden addressed by Congress in the statute. The Supreme Court agreed.
Concerned that the substantial burden language in the RFRA might at least in part derail Barack Obama’s efforts to subordinate religious freedom to the commands of the state, a number of the Government’s amici—friends of the Court arguing on behalf of the government case—advised justices that there would be no “burden” if Hobby Lobby “…simply terminated health insurance for all of its employees.” That is, “…terminating health insurance and compensating employees with additional wages would be...
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Gotta love the irony. This law was passed by a Democrat controlled Congress and signed by Bill Clinton.
Hillary will be forced to criticize a law signed by her husband. Nice to see...
“Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) of 1993”
Signed into law under Bill Clinton, I believe?
And Hillary! is out there railing AGAINST the upholding of a law her own ‘husband’ signed!
Oh, how delightfully delicious! *SMIRK*
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Marxism is predicated on worship of the state. If people put God before the state, Marxism simply won’t work (not that it works worth a crap anyway).
That just means they play "Find The Republican" for another couple of rounds.
Signed into law by bubba before the 1984 Republican push-back.
In fairness, the front burner controversy at the time was the desire of the Navajo to smoke peyote as a religious rite. The dems would never have passed RFRA to protect Christian and other right-to-lifers. But protecting drug use is another matter entirely.
“For since the natural inequality of man dooms many of us to poverty or defeat, some supernatural hope may be the sole alternative to despair. Destroy that hope, and class warfare is intensified. Heaven and utopia are buckets in a well; when one goes down, the other goes up; when religion declines, communism grows.”
Will Durant
The Lessons of History. circa 1968
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