The Obama administration has dropped a bombshell in the recent Hobby Lobby challenge to Obamacare.
According to CNS News,
the Obama administration claims that the 1st Amendment still allows
them to force Christians to violate their religious beliefs, amazingly,
even on the basis where the life and deaths of innocent human beings is
at stake. Americans opposed to Obamacare and fond of the 1st Amendment
should stand behind Hobby Lobby on this one. A couple of informative
videos about Hobby Lobby’s fight against tyranny and Obamacare are down
at the bottom of the story. From the CNS story linked above.:
In a legal argument formally presented in federal court in the case of
Hobby Lobby v. Kathleen Sebelius, the Obama administration is claiming
that the First Amendment—which expressly denies the government the
authority to prohibit the “free exercise” of religion—nonetheless allows
it to force Christians to directly violate their religious beliefs even
on a matter that involves the life and death of innocent human beings.
Because federal judges—including Supreme Court Justice Sonia
Sotomayor—have refused to grant an injunction protecting the owners of
Hobby Lobby from being forced to act against their Christian faith,
those owners will be subject to federal fines of up to $1.3 million per
day starting Tuesday for refusing to include abortion-inducing drugs in
their employee health plan.
The Obama administration is making a two-fold argument for why it can
force Christians to act against their faith in complying with the
regulation it has issued under the Obamacare law that requires virtually
all health care plans to cover, without co-pay, sterilizations,
contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs.
The last we knew, the 1st Amendment was still in effect in America, has that been taken away too, along with the governments attempt to take away our 2nd Amendment? Is this what happens once they take away Americans right to protect ourselves via our 2nd Amendment? Armed IRS workers to enforce Obamacare? The last time we checked, the 1st was still in effect; from the ADL itself.:
The right to freedom of religion is so central to American democracy
that it was enshrined in the First Amendment to the Constitution along
with other fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of
the press.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” – The First Amendment |
In order to guarantee an atmosphere of absolute religious liberty, this
country’s founders also mandated the strict separation of church and
state. Largely because of this prohibition against government regulation
or endorsement of religion, diverse faiths have flourished and thrived
in America since the founding of the republic. Indeed, James Madison,
the father of the United States Constitution, once observed that “the
[religious] devotion of the people has been manifestly increased by the
total separation of the church from the state.”
Americans are still among the most religious people in the world. Yet
the government plays almost no role in promoting, endorsing or funding
religious institutions or religious beliefs. Free from government
control — and without government assistance — religious values,
literature, traditions and holidays permeate the lives of our citizens
and, in their diverse ways, form an integral part of our national
culture. By maintaining the wall separating church and state, we can
guarantee the continued vitality of religion in American life.
– The First Amendment
This a video created using actual liberal comments on the Huffington
Post message board about Hobby Lobby refusing to cover the morning
after pill.
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