There are things happening in this country, especially as regards Christians, that decent people would never have imagined could ever happen. Evil is becoming more and more emboldened.
There are things happening in this country, especially as regards Christians, that decent people would never have imagined could ever happen. Evil is becoming more and more emboldened.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.” - DOI, 1776
Nothing at all surprising here. Govt for some time has been about forcing their edicts rather than relying on consent of the people to conduct their affairs. What will be surprising is the time when We the People stop knuckling under enmass.
Well, we’ve know this was coming for almost 50 years.
If they don’t want to or can’t continue to fight, I would suggest subdividing their business and possibly making some employees independent contractors to keep under the 50 employee rule per business.
How many of those protesting the “unjust laws” voted for the very people who enacted them? The chickens are coming home to roost.
I have heard personally from two small business owners (pretty much all that I know - 100%) that they will be following this family. One has already told his employees that he cannot provide health insurance if the bill stands (even to himself).
First Obama came for the Catholics...
But Sharia law is gonna be just peachy!
Sorry about this Tennessee...
In his attack on ECD and Samar Ali, Degan is echoing those groups that have attacked the governor’s appointment, largely because Ali is Muslim. She was a White House Fellow in 2010-11 and her resume includes work as a lawyer in a U.S. law firm’s Abu Dhabi office that involved Sharia-compliant business transactions – which is routine in many Middle Eastern countries.
Degan spent eight minutes, in a 42-minute recorded interview, talking about Sharia and Ali. Among his assertions:
--"Our governor several weeks ago appointed Samar Ali straight from the Obama administration to the top position in the Tennessee economic development department . . . so we’re preparing our state for Sharia money to come in."
http://www.politifact.com/tennessee/statements/2012/jul/24/woody-degan/candidate-vanderbilt-state-sharia/
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If Obama knew enough Latin to translate “casus belli”, he would be a lot more worried. When a government that is supposed to derive its just powers from the consent of the governed orders individuals to violate deeply held religious beliefs, that government action has crossed a clear line. The American government is supposed to be good, not evil, but that belief on my part no longer matches reality.
But if they didn’t build the business themselves, then other people must have given them help. So therefore corporations are people and they should have their religious liberty protected.
Interesting article. The author doesn’t seem to recognize that he’s bumping the controversy up a notch.
AFAIK all the claims that this is a violation of religious liberty have been with regard to religious organizations other than those that are specifically churches. Hospitals, schools, shelters, colleges, etc.
This article claims that the personal religious beliefs of the owners of a completely secular business should receive similar privilege. While perhaps a valid position, it is certainly an expansion of the issue.
I wonder how the author would react to the Jehovah’s Witness business owner who buys an insurance policy for his employees that won’t cover blood transfusions.
You will stand down on this issue and refrain from harassing faithful Catholics who are attempting to live their lives according to the well-documented directives of their faith, or you are an enemy of this Divine institution and therefore a minion of Satan.
We lost this fight during the 1960s under the guise of Civil Rights legislation.
Listen, dumb rednecks not allowing blacks to eat in their restaurants was certainly despicable and insulting, but when the government said they HAD to serve them, or anybody, they were no longer THEIR restaurants. The government shouldn’t have made it a matter of law, and I still think laws like that are unconstitutional as they violate free association.
Soon they’ll make the same argument about marrying gays. Priests, reverends and rabbis will HAVE to.
Rev.Martin Niemoller, (1945) [he served seven years in a concentration camp]
“In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Catholic. Then they came for me and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.”
Who will speak for you?
Jurisdictional differences: persons vs. corporations. The Justice Department is basing it's entire prosecution on that difference. Shouldn't you understand exactly why that is so important concerning Obamacare?
Then please - please - read and learn what this fight is really all about:
The way he’ll really get at the Catholic Church and other Christians in his second term is “gay marriage,” which he will try to force all churches to perform. In the case of the Catholic Church, he’ll also go for discrimination because the Church doesn’t ordain women.
Count on it.
All the property that he seizes will probably go to the Episcopalians...or possibly to churches that are members of the WCC.
So does anyone not believe that their is a war on religion?
Especially the Catholic religion?