A more complete article. You can see that it is mandatory, it is coercion, it will involve financial penalties and possible jail time for those who do not sumbit to this tyranny.
Catholics were not singled out.
Everyone is subject to the same unconstitutional government mandates...EQUALLY.
Catholics are not special. In this case anyway:)
This is like the 20th time I had to say this and some folks keep trying to make a 1st and 14th Amendment case out of it.
The case is CLEARLY the 10th Amendment case: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".
The US Constitution does not allow the Congress to make such a law, as the specific powers granted do not allow it.
However, IF the Individual Mandate was legal then it could be enforced against Catholics too.
Get it?
At best, dropping their health plans on the floor and paying the tax for doing it.