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Do No Harm Act' Would Forbid Religious Objection to ‘Any Healthcare’ Service
CNSNews ^ | May 23, 2016 | Lauretta Brown

Posted on 05/24/2016 1:11:15 PM PDT by detective

Reps. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) introduced the Do No Harm Act Wednesday, which would amend the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to specify that religious exceptions should not apply to “protections against discrimination or the promotion of equal opportunity” and “access to, information about, referrals for, provision of, or coverage for, any health care item or service.”

The legislation is intended to “clarify that no one can seek religious exemption from laws guaranteeing fundamental civil and legal rights.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Massachusetts; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 114th; 1stamendment; abortion; bobbyscott; deathpanels; epa; globalwarminghoax; joekennedyiii; kennedyfamily; massachusetts; obamacare; popefrancis; religiousfreedom; religiousliberty; rfra; romancatholicism; virginia; zerocare
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To: Hulka

Some religions, of course, will be exempted. Like Muslims.


21 posted on 05/24/2016 1:34:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: detective

The Democrats want a war.


22 posted on 05/24/2016 1:35:59 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: detective
This is in flagrant violation of the First Amendment, not that that will matter if a fifth liberal justice gets confirmed to the Supreme Court. So far the attacks on religious freedom have been from bureaucratic regulations and activist judges...this would be a question of a law passed by Congress.

As long as the House remains in Republican hands this won't become law, but that won't stop Obama or the courts from acting as if it was law.

23 posted on 05/24/2016 1:36:07 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Organic Panic

Sadly. . .you are correct.


24 posted on 05/24/2016 1:38:49 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Huskrrrr

Or the “Let’s Force Christians To Kill Babies Act”


25 posted on 05/24/2016 1:39:19 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: IronJack

As your doctor, it’s obvious to me you are a troubled woman living in a woman’s body. Gender reassignment surgery is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Resistance is futile.


26 posted on 05/24/2016 1:39:26 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Lera

Just seeing who is pushing this bill, makes me automatically skeptical of their intentions. Just saying.


27 posted on 05/24/2016 1:39:51 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: detective

Should be titled the “Forget About the Constitution Act”.


28 posted on 05/24/2016 1:41:19 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: detective

Joe Kennedy inherited his grandfather’s moral values which were none! Catholic my ass!


29 posted on 05/24/2016 1:45:16 PM PDT by Bitsy
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To: CMailBag

He is Bobby Kennedy’s grandson who was the brother of Ted Kennedy


30 posted on 05/24/2016 1:52:27 PM PDT by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
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To: detective

Not to harm others... oh what a rich laugh.

What did Obamacare do?


31 posted on 05/24/2016 1:54:07 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: johniegrad

It would be charitable indeed to call them cosmetic. But the reimagining of humanity has provided the guise to call them health care.

We thought Nazi-grade foolishness was impossible today. We were wrong.


32 posted on 05/24/2016 1:55:23 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: detective; All
Thank you for referencing that article detective. As usual, note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

”… no one can seek religious exemption from laws guaranteeing fundamental civil and legal rights."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Not only did lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wrongly ignore that states have never deleagated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes when they gave the green light to Obamacare, but consider the following.

Godless, low-information Democratic lawmakers are now trying to subvert 1st Amendment-protected religious freedoms by wrongly ignoring that the only civil rights that the states have amended the Constitution to expressly protect are the voting rights amendments evidenced by the 15th, 19th, and 26th Amendments, these amendments expressly giving the feds the specific power to strengthen these rights.

In other words, the states have never constitutionally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to legislatively strengthen civil rights outside the scope of voting issues.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

The reason that many federal civil rights laws exist today is because corrupt lawmakers “promise” such laws to get elected, low-information voters not understanding that the states have never given the feds the constitutional authority to make such laws imo.

Remember in November !

When patriots elect Trump, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for America, but will also put a stop to unconstitutional federal government interference in state affairs.

Such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

33 posted on 05/24/2016 2:04:03 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: detective
They want to force Catholics and other Christians to perform abortions.

I don't think that is it. They want all Christians out of the mainstream of society. That includes doctors, business leaders, teachers, ect. They want them gone.

34 posted on 05/24/2016 2:05:18 PM PDT by TruthBeforeAll
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To: detective

This guy’s sorry behind needs to be excommunicated ASAP.


35 posted on 05/24/2016 2:06:05 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: johniegrad
“Someone has simply co-opted the language”

The Obama administration and the Democrats have coopted the language continually. It is their only way of presenting their lies to the public.

People here illegally are called undocumented. Killing innocent unborn babies is called woman's health. Criminals can nor be called criminals. The list goes on and on.

36 posted on 05/24/2016 2:13:43 PM PDT by detective
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To: CMailBag

He’s Joe’s son. He’s my congressman unfortunately.


37 posted on 05/24/2016 2:14:47 PM PDT by Andy'smom (How many more acts of love can we take?)
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To: Lera

“He is Bobby Kennedy’s grandson who was the brother of Ted Kennedy.”

Joe Kennedy III is Bobby Kennedy’s son.


38 posted on 05/24/2016 2:15:29 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective

39 posted on 05/24/2016 2:17:40 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Lera

My bad. He is Bobby Kennedy’s grandson.

Sorry for the mistake.


40 posted on 05/24/2016 2:19:16 PM PDT by detective
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