Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli Says Jail May be Effective Protest to Contraception Mandate

Fox News ^ | 1/11/13

[marshmallow]

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said on a radio program Wednesday that going to jail may be an effective way to protest a mandate tied to ObamaCare that requires employers to provide contraceptive coverage.

Appearing on on Iowa conservative radio host Steve Deace's syndicated show, the Republican gubernatorial candidate said civil disobedience is one way to attack the federal health care law's requirement.

The so-called contraceptive mandate is now being challenged in a federal lawsuit by the Hobby Lobby stores. The company is primarily concerned about coverage for the morning-after pill, which some consider an abortion-causing drug.

Cuccinelli called the mandate an attack on the Roman Catholic Church and religious freedom and suggested that opponents fight back by forcing the feds to crack down on those who don't comply.

Cuccinelli, who is Catholic, said he had spoken to a bishop who suggested he'd go to jail to protest it.

"My local bishop said he told a group, `Well, you know, I told a group I'm ready to go to jail,' and I told him, `Bishop, don't take this personally - you need to go to jail," Cuccinelli said, trying to balance levity with seriousness.

[Bikkuri]

Here ya go... FB it, email it, print it up and post it... spread it far and wide......

[Ray76]

In the Citizens United case the Supreme Court held that corporations can spend money to support or oppose candidates, that to limit such spending is an unconstitutional ban of free speech.

The First Amendment says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

It follows then that corporations can spend money to support or not any given health insurance program, that to limit or mandate such spending is an unconstitutional ban on the free exercise of religion.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This is an excellent comment! (Excellent tagline, too)

[Ray76]

Thanks.

Please... feel free... spread it around. Maybe it will catch on. :-)

“since companies have freedom of speech protected by the 1st Amend, therefore they must also have freedom of religion protected by the 1st Amend.”

The most enjoyable thing about this is taking their ruling and throwing it back at them. I’d like to see how they try to worm out of it. Judges don’t respect the Constitution, only what some other judge said some other judge said.

The “contraception mandate” is utter nonsense, as is “obama-care”.

The idea popped into my head from nowhere while at the grocery store. Sometimes I really have to wonder.