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Obama claims he can force nuns to pay for abortion
wnd ^ | 3/18/16 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 03/18/2016 6:25:09 PM PDT by Nachum

The Obama administration believes it is permitted under the Constitution to force religious organizations to pay for abortions, according to the newest brief filed in the long-running case brought by the nuns of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the case, which consolidates cases from the Third, Fifth, 10th, and D.C. circuits. If the vote ends up 4-4, due to the absence of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the lower-court rulings, most of which favored the administration, will stand.

The new brief on behalf of the nuns and several other organizations challenges an Obamacare requirement that their employee health insurance plans cover abortion pills despite their religious beliefs.

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Forcing it down our throats
1 posted on 03/18/2016 6:25:09 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 03/18/2016 6:26:09 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum

So, he’ll force Catholic nuns to pay for abortion, but give muzz mullahs a pass.


3 posted on 03/18/2016 6:28:36 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Nachum

Look for this commie regime to force a number of these kinds of cases down our throats to both get what they want, and to try and force the Stupid Party hand into approving an Obama appointment.


4 posted on 03/18/2016 6:29:50 PM PDT by Carthego delenda est
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To: Nachum

Why can’t I force the homo community to pay part of my health care insurance?

Because their filthy fag behavior and ferocious zeal for fellatio, fudgepackery and fece consumption (also seed guzzling) makes them sick and diseased and poisonous and incredibly, incredibly expensive to revive prop up, pay for and send back to the steam baths (and school yards) to start in all over again.

Why don’t they pay 100 times more than I do?


5 posted on 03/18/2016 6:38:30 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Nachum

Payback for failing to bow to Allah and his disciple’s orders


6 posted on 03/18/2016 6:38:32 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Nachum

My father is in a Little Sisters home . These nuns are living saints and I don’t say that lightly. That the Obama’s DOJ is putting their boots on the nuns neck is obscene.


7 posted on 03/18/2016 6:50:24 PM PDT by Blackirish ("Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners." - George Carlin)
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To: Nachum
Not the first time that a godless ruler has persecuted the nuns:

They Sang All the Way to the Guillotine (16 Martyrs of Compiègne)

8 posted on 03/18/2016 6:51:50 PM PDT by Samwell Tarly
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To: Samwell Tarly
Francis Poulenc turned that incident into an opera in 1959. The finale, the execution of the nuns, is one of the great landmarks in 20th Century composition. The staging is brilliant for what is suggested, rather than seen.

Poulenc: "Dialogues of the Carmelites," finale

9 posted on 03/18/2016 6:55:44 PM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: Nachum

Stare decisis does not apply to this Court.


10 posted on 03/18/2016 6:58:09 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: Nachum

Evil incarnate.


11 posted on 03/18/2016 6:58:45 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Nachum

He is Beelzebama, the son of lies..


12 posted on 03/18/2016 7:12:39 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Nachum

Next they’ll be forcing those nuns to deliver beer (wouldn’t want to force Muslim truck drivers to do that, of course).


13 posted on 03/18/2016 7:15:04 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: Nachum

Lord, have Mercy!


14 posted on 03/18/2016 7:19:46 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: ought-six

https://pjmedia.com/blog/obamacares-muslim-exemption/

ObamaCare’s Muslim Exemption
BY HERBERT LONDON MAY 11, 2012

Laws almost always create unanticipated consequences. This is certainly likely to be the case when politicians bend over backwards to accommodate the currents of political correctness.

ObamaCare uses the Social Security language of the Internal Revenue Code to determine who is eligible for “religious conscience” objection to the insurance mandate. Specifically, the law provides exemptions for adherents of “recognized religious sects” that are “conscientiously opposed” to accepting benefits from any insurance, public or private.

As a consequence of this provision, Muslims may claim a religious exemption that is denied Christians and Jews. Since Islam believes insurance is haraam (forbidden) and likens insurance to gambling, the religion is excluded from requirements, mandates, or penalties set forth in the bill. Others who fall into this category are the Amish, American Indians, and Christian Scientists. Although the U.S. Constitution grants all Americans equal protection of the law, some Americans are more equal than others.

ObamaCare is specifically written not to apply equally to everyone. It is in most respects a law intended to discriminate — what some might call an extended Jim Crow law. If this seems exaggerated, consider: Jim Crow laws were based on racial discrimination, while ObamaCare is predicated on religious discrimination. Government acted based on a preconceived and arbitrary understanding of what is right.

For example, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Max Baucus indicated that the purpose of ObamaCare is as much about redistributing income as it is about reforming health care. This is an application of government’s iron fist, putting income distribution and religious discrimination in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.

By any reasonable standard, ObamaCare (and the Congress that enacted it) is completely unfettered from the Constitution. If logic — Washington logic — accommodates Sharia’s prohibition against gambling and hence insurance, Christians and Jews should claim that the state’s ability to expropriate property under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, thereby legitimating an exemption for these groups as well.

Muslims are given exemptions from law everyone else must follow. What has actually been enacted is a wedge between Muslims and Christians and Jews. Americans are pitted against Americans, Christian against Muslim, the Torah against the Koran.


15 posted on 03/18/2016 8:11:09 PM PDT by bitt (If Obama is really worried about the children, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
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"Obama claims he can force nuns to pay for abortion ..."

..... Well of course ..... Why would anybody think otherwise. This sort of thing always happens in a free country. After all ... that is what freedom is all about .... Forcing people to do what YOU want them to do ..... Right?

16 posted on 03/18/2016 8:23:56 PM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: servantboy777

That demonic obama creature is trying to make believers a two-fold child of hell more than he is,

They will take away the righteousness of the righteous,

This is Satan’s work and they are doing his will,


17 posted on 03/18/2016 8:28:36 PM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: Nachum

I have a number of things I’d like to shove down his....


18 posted on 03/18/2016 10:09:26 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: Nachum

Stupak and the other turncoats must br proud of their votes and believing the word of Barack Obama.


19 posted on 03/18/2016 11:26:56 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (The most vocal supporters of a good con man are the victims.)
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To: captmar-vell
>>They will take away the righteousness of the righteous,<<

>>This is Satan’s work and they are doing his will,<<

No, those who have found righteousness in Christ Jesus will never be plucked from His hand. That we are assured of through the promises of God in Messiah Jesus.

Your second point...Right on the mark. lol

20 posted on 03/19/2016 5:10:26 AM PDT by servantboy777
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