Posted on 12/17/2012 7:49:42 PM PST by Salvation
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 12/17/12 3:07 PM The Catholic businessman who is the founder and former owner of the Dominos Pizza chain has filed a lawsuit over the HHS mandate that forces religious employers to purchase drugs that may cause abortions for their employees. Tom Monaghan calls requiring businesses, schools and other religious places to pay for such drugs a gravely immoral practice and filed suit late Friday in federal court for Dominos Farms, a business development complex he owns. Monaghan says he currently offers his employees health insurance that does not pay for abortions or birth control drugs that may cause early abortions and he has asked a judge to strike down the mandate, saying it violates his First Amendment religious rights. The number, now more than forty, of lawsuits against the federal government over the HHS mandate continues to grow. Attorney Wesley Smith, who is pro-life, commented on the lawsuit. Monaghan, who already offers employees health insurance that doesnt cover contraception, is a very devout Catholic. How devout? He founded Ave Maria University and Ave Maria Law Schoolboth orthodox Catholic institutions of higher learning. (Neither are parties to this suit, which involves Monaghans business interests.) He takes his faith very seriously and clearly is more than willing to put his considerable money where his mouth is, he said. This isnt about birth control, but the power of the government to bulldoze freedom of religion down to a mere freedom of worship. Regardless of ones faith or lack thereof, all who believe in American liberty should wish Monaghan well, he said. Late Friday, the Obama administration told a three judge panel from a federal appeals court that it wants lawsuits related to the pro-abortion HHS mandate put on hold. Administration officials claim the mandate will be revised to provide more options for religious employers. During a hearing in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Justice Department attorney Adam Jed said HHS will release a revised version of the mandate during the early months of next year and will make it final by August 2013. That would come before the one year safe harbor protections that pro-life groups say is so limiting it offers virtually no protection for such groups, expires. Recently, a federal judge in New York became the first to rule against the government on this issue holding that the safe harbor and promised accommodation were inadequate to protect religious organizations from suffering harm. The court remarked that, There is no Trust us changes are coming clause in the Constitution. The most recent poll shows a plurality of Americans oppose the mandate. The Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court to take a new look at the controversial Obamacare law and whether it unconstitutionally forces taxpayers to fund abortions and birth control, violating religious freedoms. The high court is ultimately expected to resolve the debate over the HHS mandate. Before Thanksgiving, a federal district court judge in Chicago issued a preliminary injunction requested by the religious publisher Tyndale House in its challenge to the mandate. HHS has denied Tyndale Houses request for an exemption, saying that it didnt meet the governments definition of a religious employer because it operates as a for-profit business. But while Tyndale House won an important victory, at the same time the owners of Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts store chain, were losing their challenge to the HHS mandate in Oklahoma City. Like other challengers, they said that paying for such coverage violated their religious beliefs. There are now 40 separate lawsuits challenging the HHS mandate, which is a regulation under the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) including suits from Hobby Lobby, Wheaton College, East Texas Baptist University, Houston Baptist University, Belmont Abbey College, Colorado Christian University, the Eternal Word Television Network, and Ave Maria University.Dominos Pizza Founder Sues Obama Admin Over HHS Mandate
And don't forget Papa John's too
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He sold Dominoes pizza and has very deep pockets. Lots of money to f with the termites and lawyers from the Obama regime
Mr. Monaghan spoke at our university seminar years ago when I was on my senior year at university. One of the best articulate speakers who almost never looked at his notes when he was speaking to us in class.
BTW, he’s a former MARINE and very pro-American.
I didn’t know that he was a Semper Fi!
Yup. I remembered he said the M1 Garand was a fine weapon and once he got discharged from the Marine Corps, he immediately wanted to put the Marine’s gung-ho ideals into his business approach.
Now there's a judge who gets it.
Chuckling. Might we have more judges like that, please, God!
**Late Friday, the Obama administration told a three judge panel from a federal appeals court that it wants lawsuits related to the pro-abortion HHS mandate put on hold. **
Hard to believe that Obama wants to stop justice in its tracks. Or is it?
It’s an absolutely priceless quote during any administration or time in American history but particularly poignant today.
Good for him.
Maybe the coalition of states can find another reason and/or grounds to sue Obamugabe and his cabal.
I am just amazed the clown got another four years to destroy America. Amazed.
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