Posted on 09/29/2012 12:43:20 PM PDT by jr48154
Christian activists are demanding Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. drop its lawsuit opposing the Health and Human Services “preventive services” mandate.
The Rev. Lance Schmitz, pastor of the Capitol Hill Church of the Nazarene in Oklahoma City, Okla., was turned away from Hobby Lobby's headquarters Thursday when he attempted to deliver a petition.
“I thought they'd let me drop off the package,” Schmitz said. “I thought a Christian business would be interested in hearing from a pastor with a petition signed by thousands of people of faith. I guess Hobby Lobby is more interested in using their faith to score political points than in finding a way to ensure that its female employees get the health care they need.”
The pastor said more than 80,000 people had signed copies of a petition circulated nationwide by the online Christian group Faithful America, and women's rights group UltraViolet.
Hobby Lobby's lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, seeks protection from Obamacare's “preventive services” mandate, which forces businesses to provide the “morning-after” and “week-after” pills—without co-pay—in their health insurance plans. If Hobby Lobby failed to comply with this mandate, it would face fines up to $1.3 million per day.
“By being required to make a choice between sacrificing our faith or paying millions of dollars in fines, we essentially must choose which poison pill to swallow,” explained David Green, founder and CEO of the arts and craft store company. “We simply cannot abandon our religious beliefs to comply with this mandate.”
(Excerpt) Read more at charismanews.com ...
So called Christians who deny Christ’s teachings are NOT Christ like and are not Christians, only religious!
These are the same people who think that Jesus was a Communist.
When the Nazarenes gave up their dress code they shed all that other stuff as well. Today they aren’t any different than the Untied Methodists.
No one "needs" contraceptives. And if the want them they can pay for them themselves. They are not that expensive.
This has nothing to do with health care needs but is rather an attempt to force all Christians to bow before the altar of libertine sex.
Also about UltraViolet....
...”Since the Komen debacle, UltraViolet has found numerous reasons to rile up its members. It was the first group to call for advertisers to ditch Rush Limbaugh’s show after he called Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a “slut,” and that petition collected more than 160,000 signatures. More than 40 advertisers have peeled off the show so far, including ProFlowers, which Ultraviolet singled out as an organization that primarily serves women.”
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