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Court deals new blow to birth-control mandate
The Hill ^ | December 20, 2013

Posted on 12/20/2013 6:33:18 PM PST by SMGFan

A federal court on Friday granted almost 200 evangelical ministries relief from the Affordable Care Act’s so-called birth control mandate. The ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma is the latest in a series of legal blows to the healthcare law’s requirement that workers be offered contraception as part of their employers' insurance coverage.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aca; lawsuit; ruling
I have a love / hate relation with Obama.
1 posted on 12/20/2013 6:33:18 PM PST by SMGFan
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I wonder if it was really genius on the part of john Roberts to let this thing go forward.


2 posted on 12/20/2013 6:40:01 PM PST by willywill
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To: SMGFan

What’s not to love? Obama gives us a new laugh-(head) line every single day!!


3 posted on 12/20/2013 6:42:48 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: willywill

No, it was not ‘genius’; it was cowardice.


4 posted on 12/20/2013 6:42:59 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: willywill

(’genius on the part of John Roberts’) - I heard something interesting/ interview with I forget who. “IF the Supremes had struck Obamacare down, they would have been the Persecuted Victims and would have had that gilded banner forevermore.

As it is, Obamacare itself will bring itself down by the sheer weight and ineptitude contained in it. It can die a natural death, and the responsibility will rest directly on Obama’s shoulders and those of his Leftie cohorts. Made a lot of sense to me.


5 posted on 12/20/2013 6:47:47 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: Hostage; willywill

It was treason


6 posted on 12/20/2013 6:51:03 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: willywill

Maybe. If he had done his job as the constitution dictates there would probably still be a plurality that supported government healthcare. As it is now, if they throw it out next year they will be heroes.


7 posted on 12/20/2013 6:52:25 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: driftdiver

Treason is often initiated by cowardice.


8 posted on 12/20/2013 6:56:33 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: SMGFan

Yeah, it’s cool if your organized religion says you shouldn’t support someone’s recreational sex. But if it’s just your stupid morals and principles, well that’s too bad.


9 posted on 12/20/2013 7:06:20 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: SMGFan

This is why Marxists hate Christianity.

Pray America Wakes Up


10 posted on 12/20/2013 7:26:01 PM PST by bray (Repeal Obamacare)
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To: SMGFan

The thing appears to be falling apart/.

For the sake of our country I hope it does.


11 posted on 12/20/2013 7:33:38 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: SMGFan

It should not just be ministries or organizations. We have individual liberty.

The individual should not be forced to contribute to an insurance company that provides any service that is contrary to the individuals religious beliefs.

Am I wrong?


12 posted on 12/20/2013 7:54:12 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: SMGFan

Impeachment File for the 2014 Impeachment of “B. Hussein Obama,” aka Barry Soetoro, a documented legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
________

Documentation File for the 2014 Impeachment of John Boehner for Dereliction of Congressional Duty by Speaker Boehner for failure to appoint a Special Investigator for repeated violations of the US Constitution by “B. Hussein Obama.”


13 posted on 12/20/2013 7:58:37 PM PST by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: SMGFan

Obama likes blows.


14 posted on 12/20/2013 8:00:29 PM PST by freedomlover
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To: SMGFan

Sandra Slut must be really pissed.


15 posted on 12/20/2013 8:02:05 PM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: bboop

“(’genius on the part of John Roberts’) - I heard something interesting/ interview with I forget who. “IF the Supremes had struck Obamacare down, they would have been the Persecuted Victims and would have had that gilded banner forevermore.

As it is, Obamacare itself will bring itself down by the sheer weight and ineptitude contained in it. It can die a natural death, and the responsibility will rest directly on Obama’s shoulders and those of his Leftie cohorts. Made a lot of sense to me.”

I personally can’t forget or forgive the catastrophes that have hurt many people, companies, churches, etc. in the intervening period btwn birth and death of Obamacare. A lot of pain and death has been caused all in the interest of political advantage. None of that should have happened and the Democrats deserve not one single more vote EVER for causing this drek to happen!


16 posted on 12/20/2013 9:53:25 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: willywill
I wonder if it was really genius on the part of john Roberts to let this thing go forward.

If he was being pressured, he may have taken some satisfaction with the knowledge that the door was opening like this.

If he did it to be "a genius", he's an idiot who spits on the Constitution.

17 posted on 12/21/2013 3:56:41 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: KittenClaws

Completely correct. I come at it the same way. I’m not religious but I do have some strong beliefs and I shouldn’t be forced to buy a product that violate those beliefs.


18 posted on 12/21/2013 5:07:39 AM PST by refermech
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To: Rembrandt

I’m livid about ObamaCare, too.


19 posted on 12/21/2013 5:12:15 PM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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