Posted on 03/26/2016 7:12:25 AM PDT by bkopto
During Wednesday's oral arguments for the Little Sisters of the Poor's lawsuit against the mandate accommodation, Chief Justice John Roberts asked Solicitor General Donald Verrilli whether or not the administration could apply to churches the same the requirement it applies to religious nonprofit organizations.
"I think we could ... Your Honor, Yes ... I think we would," Verrilli answered. "It would be an appropriate accommodation, and I think if we had the same compelling interest, and we'd make the same narrowly tailored means argument."
"But we have constrained ourselves," Verrilli continued. "We've tried to be especially careful with houses of worship. And that's a normal thing that governments do with respect to houses of worship."
For conservative lawyers, Verrilli's assertion that the administration could force churches to abide by the accommodation if it really wanted to was the big eye opener that resulted from the arguments.
"That was the bombshell of the morning," Family Research Council senior fellow in legal studies Cathy Ruse told The Christian Post Thursday. "If this administration thinks it has the constitutional authority to force churches a Baptist church, a Catholic Church to put contraception and abortifacients in their health plans for their employees against their will, provided they take the steps the government says they must take, that is huge."
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
no, it is too late
by simply not abiding by the Obama tyranny, the churches can simply run the clock out
Obama isn’t
The use-by date might have passed on the church/state blend we had, but not on Jesus. If and when doom comes, it won’t be because Jesus tired of the gospel. It will because we did.
Yes sure he can- Adn he can pass an executive order requiring Christians to convert to islam by penalty of the law too- He’s godlike ya know!
What you said!
Yikes.
We ought to have lunch and discuss politics ...
And folks think they can change the system by nominating a bloviating NY semi-Dem? Or any one politician, for that matter. Cripes, if we have the majority in the house and senate things fail to stop getting worse. States - take back your rights!
I don’t care where he is from, lets see what he will do.
I can guarantee he is not a Muslin sympathizer or supports a United States without borders.
Thats a good start.
I almost hope the Little Sisters lose...than never pay...have themselves arrested in a very public way and have this satanic govt put them in jail...
they should first give away all their belongs and assets to worthy causes...
State/govt “compelling interest”, another vector of totalitarianism/Fascism to subvert the inalienable Rights of We the People.
Freedom of Speech...except for...
Shall not be infringed....
5th vs. welfare...
16th vs.
Wasn’t the same ‘logic’ used in the indefinite detention EOs/etc.?
Constitutions means squat anymore.
Nowhere in the Bible does God give civil government the authority to define its own powers (ie. to supplant the authority of God).
For too long Christians have interpreted Romans 13 to mean that civil government has authority over EVERYTHING. This is not true.
The powers of civil government are limited. Widespread peaceful non-compliance is one step. If the local and state governments will not interpose to protect their citizens, then there are other steps.
This president sees the law and Constitution as an impediment to his fundamental transformation
That they claim the authority to do this shouldn’t surprise anyone
Having established an unjust power to force individuals to fund murder, it is but a short intellectual walk to likewise force religious institutions.
Our once republic is far beyond the rescue of mere elections.
Baby killing? Islam? For a change?
They won't go to jail, but that would be great optics. they will do what the Catholic adoption centers have done when they were forced to cater to homosexuals wanting to adopt babies, shut down, no longer provide those services.
The Little Sisters cannot afford the fines so they will release their old and poor patients onto the streets? To a low cost medicare facility, where treatment is poor and shut down their facilities. And their employees that wanted free contraceptives and abortion paid by the nuns, will be unemployed.
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