Posted on 04/15/2016 3:19:00 PM PDT by NYer
As a general rule, one is typically on the wrong side of the issue if they are fighting against a group of nuns providing care for the elderly and poor. “One,” in this case, is unsurprisingly the Obama Administration.
The pending U.S. Supreme Court case Zubik v. Burwell involves the Catholic charity the Little Sister of the Poor and other religious organizations’ desire to not provide services in their health plans that violate their religious beliefs. Namely, this includes free access to contraceptive drugs, including some that may cause abortions.
The Obama Administration claims that they include a workaround that should satisfy objectors, but the religious groups are not buying it. New evidence makes it appear that the administration has little interest in finding a solution that satisfies the religious organizations.
The Washington Post details some of Professor Michael McConnell’s thoughts about new developments in the case. After oral arguments, in a rare move, the Supreme Court ordered both sides to submit supplemental briefs to entertain potentially less restrictive alternatives to Obama’s current contraception mandate.
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The government’s response to the court request was long-winded, unclear and unhelpful. In sharp contrast, the petitioners for the religious groups said in response to whether a possible solution exists, “The answer to that question is clear and simple: Yes.”
McConnell says in his case against the government’s position: “I continue to think that the best accommodation is to allow petitioners’ employees to do what the millions of other Americans without access to employer plans covering contraceptive do: buy a plan from an Obamacare exchange, with the same subsidies everyone else gets. The government has never explained why this is not a sensible solution to this problem.”
The government exempted a number of big companies from the mandate, but it refuses to provide exemptions or special accommodations for these religious groups.
Yuval Levin writes in National Review, “It’s important to see that the Obama Administration picked this fight.” He argues that Obama deliberately did this to stir up a cultural fight over a problem that is not an actual problem.
It says something unfortunate that the administration chose to pursue a case so weak, all in the effort to prevent religious organizations from helping the vulnerable.
Catholic ping!
Satan wants Christians to embrace all of his evils.
If you are old enough to mess around and get pregnant....you’re old enough to get a job and pay for both your protection and IF you decide to terminate your “mistake”, Obama’s term not mine....frankly I don’t care what you do...just don’t ask me to pay for it!
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...
The Little Sisters of the Poor don't need a "workaround", they don't need an accomodation.
They have a God-given right, constitutionally-protected, to just say "No".
To argue otherwise requires a level of depravity that would argue what the meaning of the word "is" is.
The bitter fruit of the Clinton administration paved the way for 0 and his ilk.
The entirety of the blame doesn’t even lie with King William.
If the other senior ‘rats had had the human decency to go to him and tell him “You’re an embarrassment, we’re not going to defend the indefensible; you need to resign”, the damage would have been far less.
But noooo, power means everything to that gang.
Agreed. Raw power is what the lot wants. They are Satan from “Paradise Lost”; they would rather reign in hell than serve in Heaven.
Its Isaiah Chapter 5 being fulfilled right in front of us,
Where believers will be given no place left to stand in all the Earth, they will be forced to submit to this evil or they will pay a price for that disobedience to the all powerful godless state,
That demonic obama creature is attempting to make believers in America a two fold child of hell more than it is,
The author is right: the Obama administration is different than leftist administrations of the past. Previously, the left was pushing for compromises; this one wants to destroy the opponent.
Don’t pin it all on Obama. This is the Democratic Party line whoever is in office.
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