Little Sisters of Poor challenge Obama Care

Catholic News Agency ^ | 2016-03-23 | self

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Oral argument was heard today in the SCOTUS in the case of Zubik v Burwell. Obama Care regulations are forcing the Little Sisters of the Poor to be complicit in providing abortion inducing contraceptives to their employees. This is profoundly offensive to the Sisters religious beliefs. They are asking for reiief from these obligations. Justice Stephen Breyer said “a religious person living in society may have to accept all kinds of things that are just terrible for him.” The example Breyer uses is the forcing of Quakers to pay taxes which in part pay tor a war which is objectionable in their faith. The free exercise of religion is a fundamental right enshrined in the First Amendment. Is the right to contraceptives a fundamental right? Is it really a right all? Can the employees aquire these contraceptives some other way? How important to the Nation is it that Obama Care plans be identical? Government lawyers emphasise the need for seemlessness. Is there the same National interest in these pettifogging regulations as there is for conducting a war to suppress an existential threat?

This was discussed of FNC Special Report with Bret Baier and this link:

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When FDR was pushing his New Deal the SCOTUS resisted. But in the end FDR had his way. I hope our Republican Congress when joined by our new Republican President can suppress these leftist adjudications which are legislative in nature. And reverse several of the others. I am not Catholic, but I love the 1st Amendment

[Rurudyne]

I guess we know how a certain Justice will vote when they come to insist every American receive a mark on their hand or forehead or else they’ll no longer be allowed to say or sell....

[NTHockey]

Why is this even in court? Tell the regime to pack sand. Then let the regime try to arrest them.

[DAC21]

Without Scalia the Communist / lesbian wing of the SCOTUS will get a least a 4/4 vote. The lower courts decision will prevail , I have no idea what that decision was.

[Campion]

The contraceptive mandate is merely an HHS department regulation. All it takes to reverse it is a President who wants it gone.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Without Scalia the Communist / lesbian wing of the SCOTUS will get a least a 4/4 vote. The lower courts decision will prevail , I have no idea what that decision was.

You are correct. The lower courts have upheld the absurd Obama "workaround" which says the Sisters can sign a document stating their objection and submit it to their insurance company. Then the insurance company will pay the birth control claims (and NONE of that will get passed on to the Sisters.....oh, heavens, no no no no! /s)....The Administration has claimed this satisfies the freedom of religion mandates, as the BC is being paid for by a secular insurance company and not the Church.

So the Court is likely to deadlock 4-4 and uphold this ridiculous legal fiction. Once again, Obama wins.

[rfreedom4u]

I’d be pushing the issue of why certain big corporations are exempt from this. Pepsi? Exxon?