Posted on 02/18/2012 11:05:37 AM PST by John Semmens
The recent flap over the Obama Administration’s edict that all employers must provide birth control, including abortifacients, as part of heath insurance benefits for employees has given us a “teaching moment,” says representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.).
“We have established the fundamental principle that employers may not force their views on employees by refusing to cover the costs of birth control measures,” Wasserman-Schultz crowed. “The days of employer oppression of employees are over. The government has stepped in to defend the working class.”
The Congresswoman dismissed complaints that the Obama Administration’s move wrongfully violates individuals’ rights to act in accord with their own consciences. “We had an election in 2008,” she pointed out. “Obama won that election. He has a mandate from voters that overrides the supposed individual right to freedom of conscience. This is what democracy is all about.”
“In contrast, employers have no mandate to decide what they will or won’t pay for if elected authorities say otherwise,” she continued. “Obligations to invisible deities or claims of purported ‘inalienable rights’ cannot be used to set aside one’s responsibility to obey the laws laid down by our President.”
In related news, a quartet of Senate Democrats denounced a Republican initiative aimed at protecting the “right of conscience” to not be forced to participate in a government program that they believe to be morally wrong. “We can’t have people deciding for themselves whether they ought to be required to participate in funding someone else’s birth control or abortion rights,” declared California Senator Barbara Boxer. “This would put anarchic individualism ahead of social welfare. It would set the country back 200 years.”
Ironically, it was a little over 200 years ago that the First Amendment to the Constitution barred the government from interfering with an individual’s right of conscience.
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2012/02/18/congresswoman-clarifies-who-is-entitled-to-impose-values-on-others/
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All Hail the Naked Emperor!
Got me again! At least I didn’t go right into a raging rant.
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Jim Robinson
It’s a sign of the times that this turned into some kind of women’s rights issue, and a clever ploy by the media which is now so incredibly propagandist on behalf of “the one”.
The Church was follwing it edict, as it has since the beginning. They instigated nothing, changed nothing and complained about nothing. Then, the govenment came along and kicked in thier front door. If there is controversy, it should be that the government picked a fight with the church, not the other way around.
As a former Catholic myself, I’m not surprised. The church has been cozying up to the democrats for too long. Overlooking the abortion platform, and standing silently as the democrats used them as props for election and re-election. I guess they thought they would be eaten last.
As long as Pelosi, Kerry, the Kennedy’s and so many others are allowed to claim Catholism without so much as a peep from the Pope or the rest of the church’s hierchy, I will not claim Catholisism. The church of my childhood left me for the politics of the present. I hope they enjoy the newest members of thier dwindling flock, while I’ll pray that Jesus can forgive the Pope and the rest of the church for what it has become.
Oh. My. God. "This is what democracy is all about"???!!!
This woman is seriously deluded. Ignorant. Brainwashed. Call it what you will but she hasn't even the simple presence of mind to understand that "...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
“In contrast, employers have no mandate to decide what they will or won’t pay for if elected authorities say otherwise,” she continued. “Obligations to invisible deities or claims of purported ‘inalienable rights’ cannot be used to set aside one’s responsibility to obey the laws laid down by our President.”
Prove positive as to the anti-God, anti-Christ, Marxist position of this Congresswoman.
I get the very strong impression that within my lifetime many of these issues will no longer be able to be settled by open and free elections.
She is so stupid on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin....but what’s with the ingmorant voters that elect people like her?
Pitch perfect as usual.
Just...damn. Got me again.
Shoulda known when DWS shot off her mouth that you’d be on her case by the weekend!
Said Little Debbie Wusserman-Sgt. Schultz, “When y’all got a man-date, and I haven’t had a real man-date for a long time, y’all just can’t be held back by this conscience stuff. After all, I never was.”
Nazi socialist bitch! Only the democrat party can tell you what values you will follow. You’ve secured your seat at the next Nuremberg trials.
It is hard to distinguish fact from satire these days. I was fuming while I read this because is what that hag would actually say.
Once I saw that it was fake, I wasn’t really that relieved, because I am certain it is what the moonbats really believe.
It may have been satire but the truth is that they have been saying this in words and in actions.
Nice work! The Dems are so ridiculous that I do think you'll be out of the satire business if we lose this election. It will all be real!
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