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Obama Administration: We Can and Will Force Christians to Act Against Their Faith
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 29, 2012 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 12/29/2012 6:57:48 PM PST by Olog-hai

In a legal argument formally presented in federal court in the case of Hobby Lobby v. Kathleen Sebelius, the Obama administration is claiming that the First Amendment—which expressly denies the government the authority to prohibit the “free exercise” of religion—nonetheless allows it to force Christians to directly violate their religious beliefs even on a matter that involves the life and death of innocent human beings. …

The Obama administration is making a two-fold argument for why it can force Christians to act against their faith in complying with the regulation it has issued under the Obamacare law that requires virtually all health care plans to cover, without co-pay, sterilizations, contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs.

The first argument the administration makes against the owners of Hobby Lobby is that Americans lose their First Amendment right to freely exercise their religion when they form a corporation and engage in commerce. A person’s Christianity, the administration argues, cannot be carried out through activities he engages in through an incorporated business. … The second argument the administration makes to justify forcing Christians to act against their faith is more sweeping. Here the administration argues it can force a person to act against his religion so long as the coercion is done under the authority of a law that is neutral and generally applicable—in other words, as long as the law was not written specifically to persecute Christians as Christians, the government can use that law to persecute Christians. …

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To: oldasrocks

*shrug* muslims are exempt.


21 posted on 12/29/2012 7:25:08 PM PST by null and void (Socialism: Equal parts dumb and evil, in a blender.)
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To: AppyPappy

Most Protestants do not oppose birth control.


22 posted on 12/29/2012 7:25:40 PM PST by AppyPappy (You never see a masscre at a gun show.)
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To: Olog-hai
RE :”Because federal judges—including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor—have refused to grant an injunction protecting the owners of Hobby Lobby from being forced to act against their Christian faith, those owners will be subject to federal fines of up to $1.3 million per day starting Tuesday for refusing to include abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health plan.”

I don't know where this figure comes from but the O-care fines for employers are significantly less if the employer just doesn't offer ANY health insurance, one source says $3K per year. Seems like that is what they should do and tell ALL their employees why.

And that can be reduced to zero if they cut back their hours to <30 per week.

23 posted on 12/29/2012 7:25:55 PM PST by sickoflibs (Dems go for results, meaning winning. Rs go for symbolism: "We tried. We were foiled again"")
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To: Olog-hai

sopeople lose their right to free expression of religion if they form a corporation...

what about the freedom of speech? do they lose that as well?

what about right to bear arms? I’m sure a few gun lobbies and security companies would sure like to know

strangely enough, your right to free association is the fourth amendment... which would be where a corporation falls

do people lose their rights once they start associating with each other??

this ‘administration’ is staffed by the kids the short bus left behind


24 posted on 12/29/2012 7:26:05 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Olog-hai

Ok fine- just so we know. Obama care is turning out to be the Mark of the Beast.

Obama may as well be honest about it.


25 posted on 12/29/2012 7:26:35 PM PST by Truth2012
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To: Fungi

*sigh*


26 posted on 12/29/2012 7:27:23 PM PST by null and void (Socialism: Equal parts dumb and evil, in a blender.)
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To: Olog-hai

I would think that most large religious organizations are set up as corporations. Does Obama’s argument mean that church corporations have no religious rights?

I wish the lame stream media would actually report on this administration’s legal arguments on the 6:00 news. A lot of Democrats would be surprised at what “their side” is arguing these days. Pipe dream, I know.


27 posted on 12/29/2012 7:27:43 PM PST by Avid Coug
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To: Olog-hai

$3K per year per employee, but they probably pay close to that in the heal care benefits anyway.


28 posted on 12/29/2012 7:28:32 PM PST by sickoflibs (Dems go for results, meaning winning. Rs go for symbolism: "We tried. We were foiled again"")
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To: GeronL

It’s starts when you back away from the keyboard and actually do something.


29 posted on 12/29/2012 7:29:40 PM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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30 posted on 12/29/2012 7:31:02 PM PST by narses
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32 posted on 12/29/2012 7:32:31 PM PST by narses
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To: Truth2012; BenLurkin

“Ok fine- just so we know. Obama care is turning out to be the Mark of the Beast.

Obama may as well be honest about it.”

Obama MUST have his sacrifices to Molech.


33 posted on 12/29/2012 7:33:33 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize"- Voltaire)
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To: Olog-hai
RE: those pesky religious things

The progressives are going even nuttier with their Obama-is-Lincoln! mania. Here's a clue why. Obama. Obama! Mmmm mmmm mmm.

When a man confined at Fort McHenry sued for a writ of habeas corpus Chief Justice Roger Taney ordered the government to show cause why the man should not be released. Chief Justice Taney was advised that the writ of habeas corpus had been suspended. Taney issued an attachment -- law Legal seizure of property or a person. The writ ordering such a seizure -- for the commandant of Fort McHenry but the marshals were denied admission to the fort.

Taney then "issued an opinion in the case declaring that the President alone did not have the authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus -- only Congress could do that -- and holding that [the man's] confinement was illegal. The Chief Justice, knowing that he could not enforce his order, sent a copy of it to Lincoln."

from "Civil Liberty and the Civil War: The Indianapolis Treason Trials." William Rehnquist. www.repository.law.indiana.edu.

Obama.. er, I mean Lincoln was not impressed and other victims -- mayors, police chiefs, journalists, everyone -- soon followed.

Obama.. er, I mean Lincoln asked about writ of habeas corpus: Should everything fail because that one law ". . . made in such extreme tenderness of the citizens' liberty that practically it relieves more of the guilty than of the innocent . . . [cannot] to a very limited extent be violated?" You want "the government itself go to pieces?"

So here is yet another guide for Obama to follow to handle those pesky, constitutional matters and citizens' religion-based inalienable rights -- which of course makes inalienable rights unconstitutional. Obama. Obama! Mmmm mmmm mmm. Hot damn! cry the progressives.

34 posted on 12/29/2012 7:37:25 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: AppyPappy

Well, for almost 2000 years, Christianity taught that the primary purpose of marriage was to have children, God willing. In fact, for a couple of hundred years, Protestants and Catholics both agreed that there were three purposes to marriage: 1) Children; 2) companionship; 3) avoidance of illegitimate sexual temptations.

The change came quite late, beginning with the Anglican Church. And, of course, acceptance of birth control soon led to acceptance of abortion and perversion.

But to some extent, this is beside the point, since Obamacare demands that everyone must pay for morning-after pills, which are abortificients. In other words, abortion is involved as well as contraception. And we can be pretty sure that abortions all the way up to late term will be included—as they now are under Romneycare in Massachusetts. For that matter, Obama is fond of killing babies who are born alive—he voted for it three times, and we can soon expect him to demand that we pay for it.

Not to mention killing off old people.


35 posted on 12/29/2012 7:38:06 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: null and void

No; they have authority from God and are abusing it. Such is the core of rebellion against God anyhow, going back before us humans existed.


36 posted on 12/29/2012 7:38:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Fungi
Uh, demons are created beings and always have and always will be subject to God Almighty, the God of Heaven and earth. Jesus showed us that. Demons ALWAYS trembled and bowed the knee when Jesus came around. They ALWAYS had to obey Him.

As with the cross of Christ, so now, God temporarily allows the devil to be active for God's greater purposes.

37 posted on 12/29/2012 7:39:52 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: Olog-hai
Let it be known amongst all true Americans, that this Regime is diabolically opposed to the founding principles, so well espoused by:

Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, Samuel Adams, George Washington, Thomas Paine, tens of thousands of other's of their day; millions of their descendants; thru millions and millions and millions of today's patriots, tea partiers, and conservatives.

38 posted on 12/29/2012 7:40:13 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: AppyPappy

No, it’s a religious issue when you have Christians that don’t want to be forced to sell it being forced to do so, when it goes against what they believe as a religion. And that’s aside from the state getting into any of this anyhow.


39 posted on 12/29/2012 7:41:11 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: BwanaNdege

Judges 13:1

Well... Roe V Wade will be 40 years old in 2013.


40 posted on 12/29/2012 7:42:09 PM PST by Truth2012
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