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Obama administration offers faith groups new opt-out of health care birth control mandate
Washington Post ^ | 2/1/2013 | AP

Posted on 02/01/2013 9:09:08 AM PST by reegs

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To: reegs

But if you make evil profits, you have to pay your employees to abort, even if your church tells you are abetting murder.


21 posted on 02/01/2013 10:07:50 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Of the government, by the government, and for the government.)
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To: longfellowsmuse
how is this any difference than the “compromise” he offered last year? what exactly am I missing here?

I haven't seen the details, but I'm guessing it adds another layer between the employer and the insurer, so it looks more "distant", although the end result is the same, the employer is paying for the services.

22 posted on 02/01/2013 10:15:13 AM PST by Numbers Guy
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To: KTM rider
since when did domestic lawmaking become an executive branch task

Since Congress decided to punt the ball the last 4 years and will follow the same game plan for the next 4 years.

[a little Super Bowl football reference for this weekend]

23 posted on 02/01/2013 10:18:49 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: reegs
third-party issuer

Robbing Peter to kill Paul.

24 posted on 02/01/2013 10:20:11 AM PST by EternalVigilance ('Where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.' Samuel Adams)
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To: reegs

Still all “smoke and mirrors,” just like before.

And what about For-Profits run by real Christians? (Or does “for-profit” make them second-class citizens?)


25 posted on 02/01/2013 10:43:40 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

Most of the law gave Administrative Branch entities to write the law and fill in the details.


26 posted on 02/01/2013 10:43:40 AM PST by Ingtar (Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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To: Ingtar; AD from SpringBay
Most of the law gave Administrative Branch entities to write the law and fill in the details.

In other works, a stack of blank, signed checks.

So, this is the "it" that we had find out was in this law once we passed it.

27 posted on 02/01/2013 10:48:49 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: reegs
He's bending over backwards to promote unborn death, lusty relationships, sorrowful women, wimpy men, and broken relationships. Is it any wonder why this man has flies all over his face?

Pray for the end of abortion: http://adorationrocks.posterous.com/166971716
28 posted on 02/01/2013 11:01:34 AM PST by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: reegs

Free birth control is the one good thing about Obamacare. Less unwanted babies means less abortions, less demand on welfare, lower crime rate.

Birth control should be given away on street corners, it should be a mist in the air in high schools, it should be spiked in mountain dew and sunny delight... In 15 years we’d live in a utopia.


29 posted on 02/01/2013 11:33:44 AM PST by J05h
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To: fwdude

Exactly. They passed a fill in the blank law where the Administration could fill in the blanks.


30 posted on 02/01/2013 11:36:43 AM PST by Ingtar (Everyone complains about the weather, but only Liberals try to legislate it.)
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To: reegs

Dictators akin to Hitler and Obama don’t need legislatures.


31 posted on 02/01/2013 11:40:20 AM PST by OldNavyVet
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To: reegs

If anyone other than the religious organization buys a rider to the woman’s policy for her, then I have no problem with it BEYOND my normal problem with government telling us what to do, to buy, to think AND buying stuff for people who won’t work.


32 posted on 02/01/2013 11:57:08 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: reegs

It’s going to get ugly friends. Let the Catholic bashing begin. Jesus I trust in You


33 posted on 02/01/2013 12:01:30 PM PST by mgist
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To: reegs

It’s going to get ugly friends. Let the Catholic bashing begin. Jesus I trust in You


34 posted on 02/01/2013 12:01:30 PM PST by mgist
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To: Colonel_Flagg

I think the law was written with a clause that allows the Obama administration to change the participation requirements as it sees fit.

- Allowing exemptions as they see fit based on political donations, religious belief, union affiliation, congressional district (firms in close race districts get extra allowances.)

(Not really, but that is how it seems to be operating.)


35 posted on 02/01/2013 12:12:28 PM PST by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: John Leland 1789

Yes, further UNEQUAL treatment, another violation of the Civil Rights Act, anything to get the Insurance-Banking Anti-Glass Steigals permanent hammer and sickles on everyones backs.


36 posted on 02/01/2013 12:37:17 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: John Leland 1789

Yes, further UNEQUAL treatment, another violation of the Civil Rights Act, anything to get the Insurance-Banking Anti-Glass Steagals permanent hammer and sickles on everyones backs.


37 posted on 02/01/2013 12:37:57 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: reegs
The problem is that the religious organization has to admit the government has authority over it, as a prerequisite of opting out.
....people say to me, "But the early Church didn't practice civil disobedience." Didn't they? You don't know your history again. When those Christians that we all talk about so much allowed themselves to be thrown into the arena, when they did that, from their view it was a religious thing. They would not worship anything except the living God. But you must recognize from the side of the Roman state, there was nothing religious about it at all -- it was purely civil. The Roman Empire had disintegrated until the only unity it had was its worship of Caesar. You could be an atheist; you could worship the Zoroastrian religion... You could do anything. They didn't care. It was a civil matter, and when those Christians stood up there and refused to worship Caesar, from the side of the state, they were rebels. They were in civil disobedience and they were thrown to the beasts.
-- Francis Schaeffer, A Christian Manifesto

38 posted on 02/01/2013 12:41:04 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all" - Isaiah 7:9)
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To: reegs

The kenyan vulture acts as if he is doing anyone a favor. Makes me want to puke on Moochie.


39 posted on 02/01/2013 12:51:36 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Varsity Flight

(Steagall) double “l”


40 posted on 02/01/2013 12:53:09 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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