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Supreme Court Halts Contraception Mandate For Religious Groups (WOW!)
NBCNews ^ | December 31, 2013 | M. Alex Johnson and Winston Wilde

Posted on 12/31/2013 7:39:23 PM PST by Steelfish

Supreme Court Halts Contraception Mandate For Religious Groups By M. Alex Johnson and Winston Wilde, NBC News Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted a last-ditch plea from Catholic groups Tuesday night to block a birth control mandate in the new health care law for religious organizations, just hours before it was to have gone into effect.

The archdioceses of Washington, D.C., and Nashville, Tenn., the Catholic Conference of Michigan and several affiliated groups requested the emergency stay of provisions of the Affordable Care Act that would require companies — regardless of religious beliefs — to provide contraceptives and other abortion-inducing drugs to their employees.

The groups want the mandate halted while the court considers a legal challenge, brought by the for-profit company Hobby Lobby, arguing that the requirement violates their religious liberties.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; abolishobamacare; abortion; catholic; contraceptionmandate; courts; deathpanels; hhs; hobbylobby; law; obamacare; scotus; scotushalts; sotomayor; zerocare
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To: Mercat

That’s incorrect. Each justice has jurisdiction over a circuit court of appeals. This came from Sotomayor’s circuit.


61 posted on 12/31/2013 10:59:47 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Steelfish

Drip, drip, drip...


62 posted on 12/31/2013 11:14:51 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: lonevoice

ping!


63 posted on 01/01/2014 12:36:06 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: BuckeyeTexan; Steelfish

A bit of Great News is always best when read when beginning a New Year. One (or I) pray it holds.


64 posted on 01/01/2014 4:06:47 AM PST by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Reagan80

She attended Cardinal Spellman HS in the Bronx, a very Catholic school. Irish Catholics, Italians, a good friend of mine graduated from there same year as she did.
He’s also Catholic.


65 posted on 01/01/2014 4:11:20 AM PST by djf (Global warming is a bunch of hot air!!)
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To: Steelfish

Sotomayor made more sense than Roberts - I’m feeling kinda dizzy...need to lie down for a while.


66 posted on 01/01/2014 4:53:11 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Upon reflection, I agree with you.


67 posted on 01/01/2014 5:08:51 AM PST by Mercat
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To: Norm Lenhart

May be reading this wrong BUT my take is her faith ranks above her political stand. If he gives her trouble she may surprise him (and all of us) with her independence from 0
Checks and balance? This time it’s CHECK She has as much power as 0 at this time. He may learn not to challenge a woman’s power that he no longer has any control over.


68 posted on 01/01/2014 6:12:48 AM PST by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: Steelfish

She won’t stop SSM in Utah, though. There’s a study showing that the Supremes essentially rule by what’s popular with the voters or by private whim. We’re way past careful, thoughtful Constitutional rulings. Wickard proved that.


69 posted on 01/01/2014 7:03:31 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Hostage; All

That is exactly why she delayed it.


70 posted on 01/01/2014 10:26:17 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11) Hey, Harry Reid.. 1-800-318-2596!)
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To: hoosiermama

I hope that’s true. But I won’t be shocked if it’s not.


71 posted on 01/01/2014 10:38:01 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Pride in the USA

Hmmm. How long before the SC hears the challenge now, I wonder?


72 posted on 01/01/2014 10:51:31 AM PST by lonevoice (We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality)
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To: Steelfish

Maybe the authorities can distribute the excess contraceptives among the urban blighted population. Give it away for free now rather than pay millions later to support the unwanted freeloaders that will be born to the mamas-got-several-daddys.

Unfettered access to birth control beats abortions or bringing yet another welfare case into this world.


73 posted on 01/01/2014 1:32:01 PM PST by soycd
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Justice delays health law’s birth control mandate
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3107130/posts


74 posted on 01/01/2014 1:37:04 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: shibumi

That thin glimmer of integrity might just be fear of Pope Frankie. What if his Popeness actually made a judgement about good or evil occasionally?


75 posted on 01/01/2014 1:53:40 PM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: Mercat
Seriously people. There is NO STOPPING this abomination known as obamacare. In fact it is going to get worse. If you do not know Jesus Christ you'd better get to know him or else you are screwed. The Antichrist (aka - barak O bamah) and the False Prophet (aka - Pope Francis) are alive and well. Lucifer's New World Order is in place and ready to be implemented. The United States and the world cannot survive what is coming.

Remember people, our fight is not against flesh and blood but against powers and principalities. Satan knows he has but a short time. He's NOT going to take it easy on you. He does NOT like you. He is not interested in your survival. Don't believe me? Just look at where he is. He's playing golf in Hawaii while millions are losing their jobs, healthcare and freedom.

Let he that has ears hear, let he that has understanding understand. Get right with God and protect your families people. Put your hope in God not in some oligarchy like the Supreme Court. They are not on our side.

76 posted on 01/01/2014 3:37:58 PM PST by Whats-wrong-with-the-truth
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To: sphinx
Why the almost-stroke-of-midnight ruling? It’s not as if this sneaked up on anyone.

NYE document dump?

77 posted on 01/01/2014 5:17:17 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Hostage
the democrats don’t need any more headaches right now than they have already.

Yes, they do.

78 posted on 01/02/2014 7:45:02 AM PST by bIlluminati (Who is Horatio Bunce?)
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To: bIlluminati

From our viewpoint yes they do need more headaches.

From their point of view they don’t need any more, and that is why this decision was made.


79 posted on 01/02/2014 9:20:37 AM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Steelfish

Catholic BTTT!


80 posted on 01/02/2014 9:26:30 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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