[BuckeyeTexan]

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[Amendment10]

Instead of these Democratic senators urging the Court to deny Hobby Lobby its constitutionally enumerated right to religious expression, they need to do the following. Since previous generations of Constitution-respecting justices had officially clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes, these Democrats need to address the Hobby Lobby issue in the following manner.

Democrats need to start upholding their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution by complying with the Constitution's Article V. Since Congress has no constitutional authority to address public healthcare, Article V requires Congress to petition the states to ratify an appropriate amendment to the Constitution to acquire such power. And if the states chose to ratify such an amendment, then Congress would have the specific power that it needs to establish a federal public healthcare program like Obamacare.

In other words, corrupt Congress wrongly ignored getting the required consent of the Article V state majority before it established Obamacare.

[Personal Responsibility]

Didn’t you get the memo? Only Democrats are allowed to change Obamacare.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who planned to make her case on the Senate floor, adamantly defended the Obama administration's side.

The same Obama Administration which said that an anti-muslim video wasn’t protected by the First Amendment?

"What's at stake in this case before the Supreme Court is whether a CEO's personal beliefs can trump a woman's right to access free or low-cost contraception under the Affordable Care Act," she said in prepared remarks.

After you have stained at the gnat of difference between a Christian belief and a belief of an individual mainstream Christian, You have to swallow the camel of the fact that the First Amendment is not a ceiling over our rights, but a floor under them:

Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

It is a disgrace of jurisprudence to split hairs over rights articulated in the First Amendment.

BTW, the Constitution was written by people who identified with Christianity:

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.

The framers could have omitted reference to "the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven” had they wished to dissociate themselves from the Christian faith. But that would have been impolitic, since the electorate which they relied upon to ratify the Constitution were predominantly Christian.