Catholic Ping
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Posted on 07/25/2012 10:18:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Catholic Ping
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So, really, it's a bitch when the Church's worst enemy is the Church.
The Catholics can’t run a business? Yet the Cathy family can run Chick-fil A
And you have proof of this?
I am Catholic and I never voted for the rat party and their candidates, and never will
I am Catholic and I never voted for the rat party and their candidates, and never will
Good; you have my support -- even/especially if others will ridicule you for it.
The contraception mandate remains a gross violation of their right to practice religion no matter how they respond to it.
Not arguing that point, only suggesting how a business can survive in face of such an attack.
I understand that for some businesses keeping each unit count under 50 might be the only option.
But consider that, first, this puts a limit on how big they can grow, because beyond 5-10 units the business as a whole becomes ungovernable. Some businesses want to grow big to attract large customers, secure large loans, etc. They will have to foreclose on these opportunities by breaking up.
Second, that may expose them to other charges, for example, that the breakup is only for the purposes of evading the law. Obamacare is not the only law with small business exemptions; there are various regulatory obligations that kick in beyond 50 employees. They get a huge legal exposure if they break up without creating truly independent units.
Finally, if this law passes legal scrutiny in principle, the matter to adjust the employee limit downward becomes trivial. Soon, they will have to break up again.
Their real morally acceptable options are fight, sell or liquidate.
As am I. I did my part. Fought long and hard for the conservatives to defeat Mitt Romney.
That has been the issue all along. For the same reason that it is unjust to make a Catholic hospital facilitate selling contraception, it is unjust t make anyone Catholic to facilitate selling contraception.
The same, mutatis mutandis, applies to a Jehova's Witness being forced to facilitate blood transfusions, or a Jew being forced to sell ham sandwiches, or a Baptist to serve a bar.
"The First Amendment Complaint does not allege that the company is affiliated with a formally religious entity such as a church," said the Justice Department. "Nor does it allege that the company employs persons of a particular faith. In short, Hercules Industries is plainly a for-profit, secular employer."
"By definition," said the Justice Department, "a secular employer does not engage in any 'exercise of religion.'"
"It is well established that a corporation and its owners are wholly separate entities, and the Court should not permit the Newlands to eliminate that legal separation to impose their personal religious beliefs on the corporate entity or its employees," said the Justice Department.
I believe the recent SCOTUS decision pertaining to corporate entities expressing their first amendment rights, including freedom of religious speech, via campaign contributions established precedence and certainly entitles them to express their first amendment rights within the corporation.
Good church/bad church.
By their logic the moment a human being steps over the threshold of a secular, for-profit business, he stops being what he is and becomes instead a secular for-profit person, with a different, secular and for-profit, conscience.
Hitler, with his Nuremberg laws that excluded Jews from certain professions had better respect for the human integrity that the Obama ghouls.
This is one of the approaches to trying to minimize religious influence to the benefit of the state. Another is the idea of safeguarding "freedom of worship" as opposed to freedom of religion. Yet another is the long-standing practice of creating entitlements that establish dependency on government at the cost of private charity. You can throw same sex marriage, legal adoption by gays, government support of embryonic stem cell research, etc. into the mix also.
The entire process is aimed at restricting religious influence to Sunday mornings in Church if, and only if, the right things are said at the pulpit.
This is indeed a war on religion by the state and a society bent on reducing the moral influence of the Church.
Properly seen, this is a spiritual struggle between evil and good.
This is simply a war on the people. The Newlands, for example, are not "religion", they are human beings attacked by Obama's oppression machine.
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