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Whose Conscience Should the Government Violate Next?
American Thinker ^ | 01/12/2014 | Brenda Zurita

Posted on 01/12/2014 6:19:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Many of you have heard about the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns providing care for the elderly, who  are now taking on the Obama Administration over the Affordable Care Act's (ObamaCare) contraception mandate. Religious exemptions from the ObamaCare contraception mandate are often made for government-approved entities, but the Obama Administration has deemed the nuns, who work exclusively with the elderly, unworthy of an exception.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently granted the Little Sisters of the Poor a temporary injunction, so they do not have to violate their religious beliefs by offering health insurance that covers contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortion-inducing drugs. The Obama Administration, however, is asking the Supreme Court to force the nuns to obey the contraception mandate.

For those who do not understand that the mandate is a violation of religious liberty and conscience or recognize the outrageousness of the Obama Administration's insistence on enforcement, perhaps these Constitution-violating suggestions for possible mandates in the future will be enlightening.

One party's mandate is another group's loss of freedom.

Can you imagine the reaction of these groups if the government forced them to comply with made-up mandates?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; conscience; constitution; contraceptionmandate; deathpanels; freedom; littlesisters; littlesistersofpoor; lsotp; lsp; mandate; obamacare; zerocare

1 posted on 01/12/2014 6:19:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

How about this mandate: Occupy Wall Streeters must get jobs.

(Add your own mandate here )


2 posted on 01/12/2014 6:20:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

MANDATE: Bills must be read before being voted on by Congress.


3 posted on 01/12/2014 6:22:16 AM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

CONgress members must pass a test, taken publicly and aired on cspan, proving they have read the bill and know what’s in it before they can vote.


4 posted on 01/12/2014 6:28:17 AM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people's than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: SeekAndFind
keep in mind that fighting the Little Sister of the Poor is so that the government can set legal PRECEDENT

Once they beat up these poor nuns in court they will claim that this is 'settled law' from now on

Anyone else who tries to avoid Obamacare on the same grounds will be tossed out of court citing USDOJ-vs-Sisters of the Poor court case

5 posted on 01/12/2014 6:30:31 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Quiz at 4:30 EST. Lynchings at 6:30. If they had to read everything they passed they wouldn’t get much mischief accomplished! Most all of them would get lynched the first day! Oh sweet day!


6 posted on 01/12/2014 6:32:44 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The government should next violate the liberals’ consciences by reinstating the anti sodomy laws.


7 posted on 01/12/2014 6:36:23 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: Izzy Dunne

You are heartless.


8 posted on 01/12/2014 6:37:13 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is a one-way-street. People on the left have no consciences to violate.


9 posted on 01/12/2014 6:39:25 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (If you liked the website, you'll LOVE the healthcare!)
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To: SeekAndFind
http://www.theprinciplemovie.com/
10 posted on 01/12/2014 6:39:46 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Mia San Mia)
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To: Izzy Dunne
How about an amendment adding that the same Congressmen/women MUST first pass a drug, then be tested on what they read, then be allowed to vote?
11 posted on 01/12/2014 7:06:51 AM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: SeekAndFind

... require every American to maintain a military-style “assault rifle” plus a 1,000 rounds of ammo in their own homes. The IRS will send a representative to your home to check the serial number each year to ensure that the weapon does in fact belong to the head-of-household and is not being passed around to fake compliance....


12 posted on 01/12/2014 7:11:42 AM PST by Tallguy (between taglines...)
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RE: The IRS will send a representative to your home to check the serial number each year

And how many IRS agents do we have to hire to do that?


13 posted on 01/12/2014 7:16:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Obviously I have my tongue planted firmly in my cheek when I made that statement. But Liberals are very adept at passing regulations in full knowledge that the “Poor” and other “Liberals” will not comply. Hence my statement about an “enforcement mechanism”.


14 posted on 01/12/2014 7:29:44 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: SeekAndFind

I can guarantee you that a certain middle eastern death cult will not have its ‘conscience’ violated.


15 posted on 01/12/2014 7:35:32 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Two laws must first be repealed before one new law is passed until further notice.

Freegards


16 posted on 01/12/2014 7:44:50 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: SeekAndFind

Mandate that elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats read the constitution. I doubt idiots like Obama, Conyers, pelosi or, SJ Lee even know what it is.


17 posted on 01/12/2014 10:21:31 AM PST by Organic Panic
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To: SeekAndFind
Go after the Muslims’ protected “victim” status. Violate their religious rites. Close the mosques and deport the Imams back to the dumps the came from. Then start deporting the followers of the Religion of Peace back to their former homelands. Open up immigration to Middle East Christians and Jews.
18 posted on 01/12/2014 4:32:22 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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