Posted on 06/30/2014 7:24:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The U.S. Supreme Court has given the Obama administration (and, hopefully the world) a lesson in the first freedom. I'm sorry it was necessary, but it was—the government cannot (and must not) require people of faith to violate their sincerely-held beliefs.
The ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties underscores religious liberty as our "first freedom." The freedom to exercise religion, enshrined in our Constitution's Bill of Rights, has been called "the cornerstone of the American experiment" because it is from our religious freedom all of our other freedoms flow.
Below is a graphic from a LifeWay Research study conducted in November of 2012, showing that most Americans support mandatory contraception coverage through ObamaCare.
Before the ruling, former U.S. Solicitor General Ken Starr pointed out that religious liberty was certainly at stake behind the legalese of the arguments being made by the U.S. government:
If the Supreme Court accepts the government's formalistic argument (that a corporation cannot exercise a right to free exercise of religion), it will deal an unnecessary blow to the cause of religious liberty and simply create incentives for families of conscience to carry on their business enterprise in another form. The Greens will, win or lose, be able to carry on and continue their admirable mission to serve a cause higher and nobler than their own commercial success. But something very valuable—the nation's historic commitment to religious freedom—will have been needlessly compromised.
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I’d vote for a civil unrest/big government over reach list.
It wouldn’t overlap any other lists that I know of.
Can you imagine if the European Jews had such warning? Or any of the other citizens for that matter.
Big gov over reach could have too many articles with this administration....
Anyway, you’d be great at it. I’d help however i could.
I'm maxed out. Nine ping lists and a new job.
You could start it, just by starting it.
I think you'd be amazed at how much help FReepers will provide, from pinging you to articles on FR, to finding them in the rest of the world, to moral support. I know I am!
Give it a go!
No, no. I wasn't suggesting you start it Null and Void, just a courtesy-ping for mentioning you.
> You could start it, just by starting it.
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> I think you'd be amazed at how much help FReepers will provide, from pinging you to articles on FR, to finding them in the rest of the world, to moral support. I know I am!
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> Give it a go!
Well ok… you want on?
That's the way I'm leaning.
Can you imagine if the European Jews had such warning? Or any of the other citizens for that matter.
Hm, it would have made things more interesting.
Big gov over reach could have too many articles with this administration....
Well, as I have to point out every so often, it's not this administration
— this is to say that simply voting in new people will change it — it's an endemic and systemic symptom. To really change it we need to cut out whole fedgov agencies.
Sure!
Not as far as I know.
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