Wrong. Obamacare requires people to pay for abortificients.
FWIW, I used to know some of the faculty at Baylor pretty well, and visited there fairly often for conferences and other reasons. I’m afraid I got the impression that Baylor is no longer a truly Christian university—especially at the top levels. It’s kind of the Notre Dame of Baptist universities.
Hines is an idiot who doesn’t understand the difference between “choose to provides” and “must provide”.
“Liberty For Me But Not For Thee”
Love the cultists in spite of their hypocrisies....
Well, child sacrifice is the abomination that causes desolation, so even God has a blood red line we can not cross without His judgment. He will not forgive a nation under that one circumstance.
“However, the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. And the LORD said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple (house) of which I said, ‘My name shall be there’.”
“Surely at the command (mouth) of the LORD it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; AND THE LORD WOULD NOT FORGIVE.” (All caps mine) 2 Kings 23: 26 & 27 and 24: 3 & 4
A person does not and cannot surrender or relinquish his or her fundamental human rights by choosing to become a member of or participant in a corporation. I would further contend that it is not within my power to reject or abrogate my rights, inasmuch as they are inherent to my personhood. Neither can a government abrogate those rights. Government can either acknowledge their existential reality and defend them, or it can arbitrarily and improperly declare then non-existent and of no account - - and violate them.
The problem is the federal gov’t should not dictate a one-size-fits-all health insurance plan.
That is the removal of choice from the citizens.
I suspect Mr. Hines graduated at the bottom of his class.
I'm in a different reality from the current situation. I have no idea why insurance would even cover medications or anything else that are choices which an individual makes.
Dear Mr. Hines,
Please review the historical saying: “Give me liberty or give me death.”
You and your leftist friends have declared war on people of conscience. It really does not matter whether you agree or disagree with contraception. The bottom line is you are starting a WAR.
Let me be clear. This is not figurative language. Obamacare is going to kill people. Not figuratively. Literally.
And there are many people who are not willing to live under tyranny and are not afraid of dying.
So you need to ask yourself, Mr. Hines, “Is your right to free contraception worth Revolution 2?”
College kid. Typical CRAP, and from Baylor. No surprise.
Let’s force this child to pay for my bullets. See how he likes that idea.
The author thanks God for freedom and at the same time thanks government for taking freedom away.
the crux of the case is whether you are going to be forced to give up religious beliefs if you run your own business.
the correct answer is you don’t.
this is not muslim cab drivers refusing a service dog either. this is not them forcing religious beliefs on customers.
the real issue here as well is obamacare was designed to force every citizen to fund abortion and contraceptives. since government can’t directly, it’mandates everyone buy insurance, and then mandates every acceptable’plan must include abortion and contrceptives. therefore forcing every person to give money that can and will fund abortions and ru-486.
Who is Jason Hines and why should I give a flying flip what he thinks?
Stopped reading right there.
What poor logic. First, Hobby Lobby is not paying for birth control for their customers but for their employees. I suspect he just identified the wrong group so I will let that slide.
Secondly, we already have other groups given exemptions for Obamacare en toto based on their religious beliefs. Why should a Christian-owned corporation not have that same right simply because they are not non-profit?
What Obamacare does is it strips businesses, insurers and individuals all of their right to negotiate a coverage plan that covers what they want to cover and not what they don’t. The government, instead, shoves a one-size-fits-all plan that uses the moral values of the liberal establishment (birth control, HIV care, sex changes -good, cigarette smoking and gun ownership -bad). It overreaches into decision government should have no right to make.
Employees also have rights to look elsewhere if they aren’t happy with the benefits of a particular employer. I’m guessing most employees at Hobby Lobby or Chick Fil-A support the moral values of the company’s ownership or they’d leave to find a job with a company more in line with their own values.
Of course, if you chip away at the Obama Oberreach, you are eventually left with a shell of the government power the bill was meant to have which is the real reason the courts will kill the appeal.
Well, why CAN’t the Jehovah Witnesses remove blood transfusion coverage from any insurance it buys to cover a worker? They think simply to avoid doing harm to the person affected. The insurance is a form of compensation for services, and to insist that it much uniformly apply to all workers is like insisting that all workers be paid the same salaries. Surely some discretion must be allowed the employer.
This guy makes legal arguements and doesn’t even quote the Constitution.
The first amendment trumps obamacare.