Missouri business granted injunction against HHS mandate

cna ^ | November 29, 2012

[Vince Ferrer]

You know what? This is a very slippery slope. While I am a devout Catholic and do not in any way, shape or form support abortion, if the law of the land is that religious beliefs prevail, we are more likely than not to get taken over by Islam. I don’t know what is the answer. I would have to analyze it some. There has to be an answer.

Yes there is an answer. If people find that their religious beliefs are being restricted by the government, then the government is doing something it should not be doing and should butt out. This doesn't giver preference to Islam or any other religion. It just restricts the scope of government to what it aught to be.

[pilipo]

Your example is pretty outlandish.

Not under this administration.

[annalex]

If we are going to allow moslems to exercise their freedom of religion, it includes murdering infidels

We've lived for over 200 years with the First Amendment ans so far no Muslim emerged to claim a constitutional right to kill infidels.

The First Amendment indeed guarantees the Muslim the same rights as the Catholics: to exercise their religion unmolested by the government. If the government, for example, demanded that the Muslim eat pork, not take a break from work to pray, or denounce Mohammed, that would violate their right to exercise religion just like now O'Brian's rights are about to be violated, and we should stand up for the Muslims' rights as well.

If, hypothetically a religion were found that advocates murder, then obviously such would not be a religion the Founding Fathers had in mind as it would violate the rights of those outside of it, including the right to practice their religion and not be murdered for it.

We are fine with the First Amendment just the way it is written and as applied to any recognized religion, including Islam.

[DBeers]

If you have the answer to my unanswered question, spit it out. My question is a very real concern. If we are going to allow moslems to exercise their freedom of religion, it includes murdering infidels, now do you get it? Can Congress enact a law prohibiting murders of infidels? Think, junior, think

Unlike you assert -religious liberty has limits and the inalienable rights of others clearly qualify as rights that the government is tasked with protecting.

Government has no right to tell people what to buy for any reason and most assuredly for any inalienable reason -one that government is are specifically limited from as documented in the Constitution!

[JCBreckenridge]

Well said.

[JCBreckenridge]

I hear your frustration, but we have to stand up for ourselves against this administration. This is a victory today for our own religious freedom. The more we stand up and insist that we be given an option to opt out of Obamacare, the better off we will be. If we do not stand up - then we will be crushed and it won’t matter whether sharia takes over, because we won’t be around to see it.

Standing up for ourselves isn’t shortsighted - you concentrate on the battle today - because if we lose this, there is no ‘tomorrow’.

[annalex]

I should add that while Islam is lacking a firm pro-life principles, allowing for abortion and contraception in limited circumstances(*), the Muslim have reasons to protest the HHS mandate as well, as it puts the funding decisions in the hands of the government without any distinction.

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(*) so far as I can tell from interviewing Muslims; Islam, like Protestantism does not have a single authority on these issues.

[yldstrk]

Whoever thought we would be dealing with government repression in the US

[painter]

You don't seem to understand Sarcasm.

[presently no screen name]

I understand sarcasm but not blasphemy.