Posted on 08/22/2014 4:33:08 PM PDT by Nachum
Edgartown, Mass. — The Obama administration on Friday proposed new regulations intended to address the religious objections that some nonprofit organizations and private companies have to providing contraceptive coverage for their employees. (Snip) On Friday, the administration proposed a rule, which would go into effect immediately, to address the concerns of nonprofit groups. Under the proposal, a religious college or other nonprofit group could inform the Department of Health and Human Services of its religious objections and the department would then contact insurance companies and arrange the birth control coverage at
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So the ACA is a living document? Living to kill and suck the life out of the economy! I suggest this be repealed soon!
The GOP does need to get some Back bone!
“the department would then contact insurance companies and arrange the birth control coverage at no cost to the employer or its employees.”
And by what Congressional budget allocation policy does Obama have to spend money for that? Oh right. None necessary. Obama now runs the country without having to involve Congress any more. It’s what we used to call a dictatorship.
EVERYTHING is about abortion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Separation of state and religion?
ONLY ISLAM IS EXEMPT FROM DEATHCARE.
Co-incidence?
So now taxpayers who have religious moral objections must still pay all costs....for abortifacients?
“On initial review of the government’s summary of the regulations, we note with disappointment that the regulations would not broaden the “religious employer” exemption to encompass all employers with sincerely held religious objections to the mandate. Instead, the regulations would only modify the “accommodation,” under which the mandate still applies and still requires provision of the objectionable coverage. Also, by proposing to extend the “accommodation” to the closely held for-profit employers that were wholly exempted by the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Hobby Lobby, the proposed regulations would effectively reduce, rather than expand, the scope of religious freedom.”
Archbishop Kurtz
President of USCCB
Yeah, I saw this in an earlier article. They address them by making you pay in another manner.
This isn’t even about the law any more. It’s just a big tantrum.
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